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Union City, California

Union City, California

Sunnyvale, California

• Developed control solutions and their delivery device for Intuity OnQ® one-step blood glucose monitoring meter and established approaches for stabilizing solid phase dry reagent undergoing sterilization:
• Developed stable control solution materials with chemical self-identification characteristics and their delivery device to provide user friendly features, resulting in new patent application for the invention.
• Improved stability of reagent coatings with fast dissolution properties and rapid reaction kinetics.
• Identified and validated packaging materials.
• Developed and validated methods for raw material and in-process QC testing.
• Identified and validated vendors as alternative material sources.

Santa Clara, California

• Invented a new lateral flow membrane based one-step ELISA platform and developed related reagents, specialty coatings and manufacturing processes:
• Principal inventor of new lateral flow one-step ELISA platform resulting in new patent application for the technology.
• Established design feasibility and manufacturability.
• Developed special coatings and reagents for proprietary continuous web processes.
• Designed stability testing protocols for in-process materials.
• Developed and validated methods for raw material, formulation and in-process testing.

Sunnyvale, California

• Developed solid-phase chemistry tests and specialty coating materials:
• Developed KittyCheck cat litter tests for early disease detection.
• Developed proprietary formulations for conductive and hydrophobic coatings.
• Transferred product and technology to manufacturing.
• Wrote product documentation, product inserts and bills of materials.
• Identified and validated material vendors.

Fremont, California

• Set up manufacturing facility and managed production of glucose and cholesterol sensor strips:
• Implemented high throughput low cost processes for strip production.
• Developed special coating formulations and reagents for sensor manufacturing.
• Contributed to strip redesign for manufacturability and test performance improvement.
• Transferred strip manufacturing from R&D to production.
• Identified and validated material vendors.

Santa Clara, California

• Invented Layered Thin Film (LTF) technology platform and developed related reagents and coating formulations, and manufacturing processes:
• Developed FemExam® pH and Amines Testcard® and related control solution for infectious vaginitis testing. After launch this product received great interests from the STD research and clinical communities whose.
• Developed polymer formulations and reagents for proprietary coating processes.
• Formulated control solutions for TestCard quality assurance.
• Developed and validated methods for raw material, in-process and finished good testing.
• Developed and transferred test-card manufacturing processes from R&D to production.

Sunnyvale, California And San Jose, California

• As Product Development Manager:Organized and managed the rapid point-of-care lateral flow immunoassay development group at SmithKline Diagnostics:
• Prepared plans, budgets and reports for management.
• Recruited scientific staff.
• Established processes for membrane striping, coating, drying and lamination.
• Developed antibody-conjugate reagent coating, drying and lamination processes.
• Developed continuous processes for final test strip assembly.

Santa Clara, California

• Developed new rapid point-of-care tests for glucose and cholesterol:
• Invented the Instrumentless Quantitative Analysis System platform technology.
• Prepared plans, budgets and reports for management.
• Recruited scientific staff.
• Designed processes for coating, drying and lamination of reagent papers.
• Established continuous lamination and die-cutting processes for final test strip assembly.

Sunnyvale, California

• As Scientist:Developed SKI Immuno-Assisted Assay for prostatic acid phosphatase:
• Developed and formulated antibody reagent powder.
• Redesigned product for assay simplicity.
• Transferred reagent manufacturing from R&D to production.
• Wrote manufacturing procedures and specifications, product documentation and inserts.
• Identified and validated material vendors.As Associate Scientist:Contributed to the development of SKI colorimetric reagents for triglycerides and total cholesterol:

San Jose, California

• Managed reagent reformulation, process improvement and cost reduction in the manufacturing of INRatio® blood coagulation test strips:
• Identified and validated raw materials to reduce cost and to enhance reagent stability.
• Developed and validated methods for raw material and in-process testing.
• Conducted studies with engineering and production teams for process and cost improvement.
• Identified process related defects on customer returns and proposed corrective measures.
• Identified and validated vendors as alternative material sources.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Biological Sciences

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Clinical Chemistry And Microbiology, Clinical Chemistry And Microbiology

Completed all course works. Left program while working on my thesis research to pursue personal business interests.