Robert Howard Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Manage● Manage one direct report and coordinate two functional teams: a surgical training team (3 trainers) and a behavior operator training team (2 trainers).● Support hiring, onboarding, and expectation-setting for new employees.● Developed and implemented a technical assessment period to set expectations and improve data quality from new surgeons.● Run the institute's aseptic training program, training over 100+ surgeons on essential practices.Training● Serve as the subject matter expert on mouse neurosurgery, including the development and design of new surgical techniques to meet evolving research needs.● Designed and optimized surgical training protocols, successfully training 53 new surgeons across multiple procedures.● Led a team to standardize training for behavior operators, achieving successful training for 6 operators across departments..● Created SOP's and reference materials for surgeons to troubleshoot equipment and surgery issues.Tracking● Developed a SharePoint database to track 300+ fields per procedure, enhancing data accessibility.● Built Excel and Power BI dashboards for monitoring individual and team training progress.● Established metrics to evaluate the progress of new surgeons throughout their training.● Collaborated with a multi-department team to transition data management from SharePoint to SLIMS, enhancing data accessibility and integration across departments.Technical● Developed and implemented new aseptic, stereotaxic neurosurgery techniques on mice, including head-post placements, craniotomies, durotomies, and stereotaxic injections of viral vectors, in accordance with IACUC protocols.● Trained water-restricted mice in a visual change-detection task for 2-photon calcium imaging studies.

Greater Seattle Area

● Worked with key stakeholders to define requirements and objectives for large scale projects● Developed and maintained a set of standard operating procedures, work instructions, training documents, and project tracking to ensure consistency of deliverables● Traveled to donor sites to process high value tissue for shipping back to the Institute● Trained staff for off site processing of high value human tissue and onsite tissue intake, data collection, specimen QC, and data entry into LIMS and Excel databases● Designed and maintained Excel database tracking of 15 freezers with 2000+ tissue samples● Maintained a HIPPA compliant database of donor information● Performed benchtop and semi automated histological stains for high throughput pipeline work

● Preform high throughput serial cryosectioning in 1x3, 2x3, 6x8 and tape transfer formats● Perform QC on samples to ensure quality standards were meet before sending through pipeline● Train new Research Associates

● Received and processed samples for assay operators following GMP/GLP● Prepared daily reagents for lab use● Assisted with scheduling of assays and informational request for samples for global clients ● Developed and maintained a system for physical inventory and electronic tracking system for storing of client samples

Certificate, Project Managment

B.S, Biology, Concentration In Molecular Biology