Michael Kuzyk Email & Phone Number

Victoria, Bc, Ca

2200 Keating Cross Road

Victoria, Bc

Victoria, Bc, Canada

Leading the design and development of innovative persona–based user interfaces that target personas individually.Utilizing goal–directed design as an agile scrum product development Product Owner to deliver a product that lab scientists will adopt and use as a helpful tool and not a choreScrum product owner- User story creation, Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, leading UX and visual designDelivering better products that help satisfy persona–specific goals and motivations- Developed and market launched Clarity LIMS (Sept. 2012) featuring an innovative new, web-based user interface for lab scientists- Developed and market launched a preconfigured LIMS (Sept. 2011) offering for labs using leading next–gen sequencing applications and instrumentation leveraging my domain expertise Lead technical partnerships with instrument vendors (Illumina, Ion Torrent & Life Technologies)- Organizational management experience building product teams that tightly integrate product management, design, definition, development, and quality assurance- Recruiting and managing additional product managers to direct other product development teams

Established the UVic Protein Centre as a world leader in the development of targeted quantitative protein assays• Lead the implementation of a bioinformatic and experimental workflow for multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) based protein assay development • Extensively presented research findings at international conferences and workshops• >240 citations of 2009 Kuzyk et al. MCP flagship paper to date – Planned & executed both internal and large scale collaborative research projects with an emphasis on delivery of quality results on time and on budget• Implemented new experimental workflows to support internal research and provide externally as services• Directed a team of technicians and post–docs • Collaborations resulted in co–authorship of 11 peer reviewed publications – Automated lab workflows to increase both throughput and quality and permit remote operation of lab instrumentation – Implemented electronic lab issue tracking system, and internal Wiki – Refined & unified the corporate image of the facility• Redesigned corporate identity, created marketing collateral and tradeshow materials

Lead the design and establishment of two proteomics mass spectrometry facilities in Canada’s preeminent genomics research organization• Operated and managed all wet lab and bioinformatic needs of the protein chemistry and mass spectrometry (MS) facility • Computational bioinformatic analyses, method development, instrument maintenance and troubleshooting– Directed the development of an in house software analysis tool for interpreting results of protein–protein interaction studies– Lead the creation and implementation of lab standard operating procedures – Responsible for data analysis infrastructure and interpretation of results • Administered various data analysis tools and algorithms (Mascot, X!Tandem)

Remote, home office experience covering Western Canada as a field applications scientist for a mass spectrometry company in the Bay area.– Demystified the principals of protein chemistry and mass spectrometry for prospects and customers through education, training and demonstration• In person, on–site training of end users• Installation & repair of hardware– Developed working relationships with clients that developed into co–authored publications, intellectual property opportunities and ultimately my next career opportunity– Extensive public speaking and representation of Ciphergen at seminars, workshops and tradeshows

Oversaw the development and commercial market launch of my doctoral thesis research project as a recombinant veterinary vaccine.– Established and managed a satellite research facility in eastern Canada• Managed an external grant funded research collaboration • Recruited and supervised of a postdoctoral research fellow– Research efforts focused on identification of immunoprotective antigens of bacterial and viral pathogens for the development of candidate recombinant subunit vaccines– Patenting of intellectual property, external representation of company at international conferences and tradeshows

Ph.D., Biochemistry, Governor General'S Gold Medal

B.Sc., Biochemistry, With Distinction