Michael Granger, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

San Jose, California, US

Developed Sharper Shape’s PMO, oversee its governance, and put in place the systems, processes, and ways of working to sustain a high performing team, where skill development, increased agility, collaboration, and improved efficiencies were keys to success.► PMO Strategy Development❍ Define and maintain the PMO mission, goals, and operating model.❍.

San Jose, California, US

• Successfully managed and closed multiple multi-million-dollar projects whose sum exceeds $10M USD.
• Secure programs and contracts that generate a positive return on project- and program-investment.
• Negotiate contracts and coordinate their legal review and approval.
• Prepare cost and technical proposals in response to Requests for Information (RFI) and Requests for Proposals (RFP) and oversee their execution.
• Lead teams in areas of program governance, project management, change adoption, organization-wide quality consistency, and provide critical analysis of risks, issues, and their interdependencies.
• Prioritize project tasks and plan resource allocation for the organization.

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

• Managed Sarcos' teleoperated robotics program (Guardian® GT and Guardian® XT).
• Responded to national and international requests for exploratory applications and quotations.
• Spearheaded development of robotic system for power line management.
• Wrote proposals and oversaw and executed project awards; generated resulting technical reports.
• Managed cross-functional engineering teams with both waterfall and Agile product development and life-cycle methods during organization structure transition (i.e., migrating a balanced-matrix to a functional.
• Engaged in all aspects of project development – from planning and management to hands-on technical development – to augment my engineering, testing, and manufacturing teams.

• In parallel with managing Sarcos’ teleoperated robotics program, for 3½ years I managed Sarcos’ U.S. Government program.
• Successfully managed and closed multiple multi-million-dollar projects whose sum exceeds $10M USD.
• Identified, authored responses to, and competed-for/ bid-on RFIs and RFPs; secured, and managed resulting defense-related government contracts, subcontracts, and SBIR awards.
• Spearheaded contract oversight and management of both prime and sub-prime awards.
• Co-authored and met all CDRLs, milestones, and Program Reviews.
• Formed, allocated resources, and managed successful cross-functional engineering and manufacturing teams comprised of software, controls, mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing/ production engineers and technicians.

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

I have a broad background and interests in scientific and engineering technical-application and management with specific expertise in complex engineering projects, bioanalytical chemistry, sensors, and in vitro diagnostic instrumentation development. My research interests focus on bettering outcomes for the human condition – specifically in the form of.

• Developed biomarker detection platforms for personalized and precision medicine
• With University of Utah’s Surgery Research Laboratories, Pancreas Cancer Research Program, and Experimental Therapeutics Program at Huntsman Cancer Institute, developed a novel diagnostic approach for Pancreatic ductal.
• Multiplexed simultaneous analysis of multiple markers for more effective cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and stratification
• Calibrant-free massively parallel biomolecule analyses
• Analytically sensitive magnetic and spectroscopic signal transduction schemes
• Principal Investigator (PI), co-PI, Investigator, and co-Investigator

Tempe, AZ, US

• The prevalence of mass spectrometry in the bioanalytical and clinical arenas is well founded; the technique is particularly well suited for applications where identification and quantification of biologically important.
• Gamache PH, Meyer DF, Granger MC, Acworth IN. (2004). Metabolomic Applications of Electrochemistry/Mass Spectrometry. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom.
• Kertesz V, Van Berkel GJ, Granger MC. (2005). Study and application of a controlled-potential electrochemistry-electrospray emitter for electrospray mass spectrometry. Anal Chem.
• Gamache PH, Meyer DF, Granger MC, Acworth IN (2009). On-line Electrochemical-LC-MS Techniques for Profiling and Characterizing Metabolites and Degradants. In Ramanathan R (Ed.), Mass Spectrometry in Drug Metabolism and.
• Granger MC, Van Berkel GJ (2005). Electrochemistry with Porous Flow Cell. USPTO 6,952,013.

Ames, Iowa, US

• A primary thrust of my research during my postdoctoral fellowship was furthering the use of magnetic actuation for chip-scale fluidic control. With slight modifications, similar strategies can be used for on-chip.
• Tondra MC, Granger MC, et al.. (2001). Design of Integrated Microfluidic Device for Sorting Magnetic Beads in Biological Assays. IEEE Trans Magn.
• Pekas N, Granger MC, et al. (2005). Magnetic Particle Diverter in an Integrated Microfluidic Format. J Magn Magn Mater.
• Porter MD, Granger MC, et al. (2011). Nanomaterial Strategies for Immunodetection. Proceedings of SPIE.
• Granger MC and McDermott MT (2013). Nanotechnology and tomorrow's medical diagnostic tests Abstracts of Papers American Chemical Society, 246.

Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry

Ba, Chemistry