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United States

Lexington, Ma

Development Committee member tasked with broadening the organization's donor and volunteer base as well as communicating Special Needs Arts Programs (SNAP) arts and music programs to area families and providers.

Greater Boston Area

Marketing and communications consulting to get new products to market faster and to re-invigorate underperforming products lines. Grow product sales into new applications and geographies with fresh perspectives on product competitive advantages and benefits. Helping chemical, biotech, laboratory, and technology suppliers get their products to the right markets faster.

Greater Boston Area

Created new product positioning and new business development programs, pricing and marketing collateral for new line of chemical foaming products for engineered plastics (injection molding, blow molding). Programs enabled company to expand into horizontal foaming markets.

Cambridge, Ma

• Crafted proposals, financial reports, baseline budgets and schedules in support of the Defense Systems program management team.• Created and managed budget plans for programs and subtasks using information systems (PeopleSoft ERP and Data Warehouse).

Cambridge, Ma

Update and clean up corporate databases of computer hardware equipment. Use skills in interpersonal relationships and in database design and management to conduct primary and secondary research on the location and status of thousands of computers across multiple businesses and geographic locations.

Peabody, Ma

Specialty retailer with a smart collection of games, puzzles, books and software designed to strengthen the brain. Efforts increased store’s year-to-year sales growth by 35%.

Minuteman Technical Institute

Selected Chemistry Laboratory and Biomanufacturing Skills and Training: - Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)- Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs)- Good Laboratory Practices (cGLPs)- Good Documentation Practices- OSHA Safety Training (10-hr)- Sterile/Aseptic Techniques- Upstream Biomanufacturing- Downstream Biomanufacturing- Process and Laboratory Filtration- Chromatography (size exclusion, affinity)- Hazardous Materials Handling- Micro-Synthesis and Purification Techniques - Regulatory Compliance- Training/Mentoring

With my background as Marketing Director for the Boston Life Science Marketing Association I research and identify timely insights for the local Product Management community.

Bedford, Reading And Stoneham, Ma

Reinvigorated previously de-emphasized chemical cleaner product line by expanding products offerings to high value-added markets and by leading product safety and quality improvement program.

Developed and managed global communications programs for seven chemical product lines serving pharmaceutical and industrial process markets.Expanded customer sales and developed new distribution channels to pharmaceutical and industrial process industries in Latin America and India.

Built marketing and sales capabilities for start up storage products company serving the digital video and audio production markets. Grew sales to $6 million in first 3 years.

Built international marketing, sales and distribution channels for new specialty chemicals business.

M.B.A., Marketing Management

B.S., Chemistry

Certificate, Biomanufacturing

Selected Laboratory and Biomanufacturing Skills and Training: - Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - Good Manufacturing Practices.

Education Technology

M.Ed. course