Matthew Mitschelen Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas Area

• Field Application Scientist (FAS) / Product Specialist, Sales Trainer and Technical Trainer for advanced microscopy, automation / control, image analysis, and sales skills. Develop and deliver in-person technical and.
• Qualify customers, configure, demonstrate and present products, and resolve customer concerns as new sellers, products, or applications require.
• Primary technical resource for a region of 13 sellers, and mentor to my team of 11 who support salesregions across North America. Only person outside service team to install N-SIM-S super-resolutionsystem and receive.
• Conceived and maintained a "support digest" to efficiently keep multiple support teams abreast of currentissues in the field, accelerating resolution of issues seen previously. Organized hundreds of confidentialdesign.

• Lead author of 2 peer-reviewed publications, and co-author of 15 more, on aging in rats andconditionally transgenic mice (viral vector mediated knockouts). Focused on cognition / behavior associated with genomic and.
• Performed and trained others on fluorescence microscopy, immunohistochemistry, stereology,stereotactic surgery, behavioral assays, blood sampling, genotyping PCR, and ELISA.
• Designed custom hypoxia chamber and behavioral arenas, and repaired lab equipment.

• Instructed 140 Namibian students in Extended IGCSE Biology curriculum. Trained 25 staffmembers to use word processors and spreadsheets for lesson preparation and end-of-termgrade calculation.
• PC/Namibia Diversity Committee: Supervised and organized a tour of 30 students from acrossthe nation to promote awareness of different tribal cultures.
• Consulted on development of new indigenous language training manuals for incoming trainees.

• Used two-electrode voltage clamp to explore synaptic plasticity in Drosophila.
• Used immunohistochemistry and fluorescence microscopy to examine synaptic morphology forcorrelations with electrophysiological plasticity in Drosophila.
• Filmed training materials for dissection and electrophysiology procedures after developing a simplified3rd instar Drosophila larva dissection technique.

• MS Access SQL and Excel VBA programming for data collection, organization, and reduction, allowingfor more efficient GMP/GLP auditing.
• Customized and tested Allen-Bradley / Rockwell PLC programming for mammalian cell bioreactors, furtherautomating maintenance of proper growth conditions for pre-clinical manufacturing.
• Prepared samples, buffers for protein analysis by HPLC. Assisted with spectra analysis to determineoptimal protein preservation methods.

Sound and lighting for stage productions using computerized light control, professional mixers, microphones, feedback suppressors, and effects generators