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Boston, MA, US

Woburn, MA

- Expanded East Coast territory coverage to include three states on the West Coast (CA, OR, WA)

Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

- Territory covered 11 states on the US East Coast outside of New England (DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, NJ, NY, PA, SC, VA, WV)

Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Greater Atlanta Area

• I worked in the nationally recognized Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Efforts for the department focus on guiding faculty through early commercialization.
• Responsible for collaborating with over 70 primary faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering to identify, evaluate and accelerate the commercialization of early-stage technologies. I manage over 20 individual.
• Work collaboratively to connect research faculty with both internal and external programs that advance and mature technologies for the commercial marketplace. Frequently assess technologies for fit with accelerator.
• Establish and grow relationships within the biotechnology, medical device and digital health ecosystem to match faculty technologies with strategic verticals in various industries.
• Project manager for six teams within the Biolocity non-dilutive funding portfolio, helping negotiate agreeable solutions for complex problems related to technical progress and business development.

Kennesaw, Georgia

• Startup vaccine development company working to bring a novel vaccine to market to help those suffering from parasitic diseases in developing countries. Activities:
• Implementing innovative commercialization strategies and generating a reliable flow of capital to develop a novel vaccine for the prevention of Leishmaniasis. The vaccine is pending review as a Investigational New Drug.
• Successfully worked with NanoCliq team and industry leaders to determine optimal commercialization strategy for a first-in-class vaccine. Jointly developed an effective business model to simultaneously commercialize.
• Successfully raised $100,000 in non-dilutive funding through the National Science. Currently under review for funding through Biolocity.

Atlanta, Georgia

• Directed economic development for the biopharmaceutical, medical device and digital health companies in the metro Atlanta region. Project manager for the Global Health ATL initiative.Primarty activities:
• Simultaneously balanced multiple projects while working closely with senior executives from the metro Atlanta business community to help identify needs and implement strategies to drive company growth.
• Worked extensively with startup, early-stage, mid-market and Fortune 500 companies to support the development and commercialization of technologies and products in the life science, medical device and digital health.
• Project manager for four teams totaling over 100 volunteers for the Global Health ATL (GHA) initiative. Presented regular updates on project developments to the GHA executive committee comprising senior executives from.
• Effectively worked across organizations to support economic and business development missions; partners included United Parcel Service, the American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Successfully oversaw the addition of over 800 jobs through recruitment, retention and expansion activities in the life science, medical device and digital health industries.

Greater San Diego Area

• Completed over one hundred meetings to gain detailed knowledge of the vaccine development landscape. Conducted in-person customer interviews in three countries in the EU (Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands) as.
• Received rigorous critiques of interviews in weekly presentations to the National Science Foundation instructors and fellow peers. Met or exceeded expectations of the strict program criteria permitting the use of NSF.
• Interviews and the information garnered allowed a restructuring of the NanoCliq business model with a more sustainable framework and clearly defined product roadmap.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Consulted for a small startup company looking to apply photo recognition software to ease the retail shopping burden in selected markets.Activities:
• Worked with company acquired by Amazon to determine potential applications of photo recognition technology; allowing identification and ordering of exact parts by submitting a photo of a product to the retailer.
• Identified profitable market segments alongside company founders. Concluded that the most profitable would be: automotive parts, large mechanical-industrial equipment, and agricultural products.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Assisted in identification of logistical inefficiencies within the transportation of consumable goods across the greater Atlanta area. Activities:
• Approached, and was accepted by, the city of Atlanta to evaluate logistics and operations within the Atlanta Food Bank. Contact was initiated following a case competition in which my team evaluated the current.
• Over the duration of the consulting project, continually worked to identify key logistical issues present within the Atlanta food distribution infrastructure. Developed a method for reducing travel distances of.
• Regularly met with Atlanta Food Bank officers and board of directors to voice our insights and work towards implementing our improved solutions to increase efficiency.

Valdosta, Georgia

Responsible for the teaching of a total of 13 laboratory sections over two semesters. Each section ran three hours long and contained up to 30 students. The lab sections were in the subject area's of general chemistry, organic chemistry and biochemistry. Responsible for lecturing at the beginning of the section to provide key details in the experiment the.

Instructed seven semesters of organic chemistry, two semesters of organic chemistry labInstructed regular optional review sessions with attendance in excess of 120 studentsTwice nominated for the Florida State University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

Research performed under Professor D. Tyler McQuadeSynthesis of novel nucleoside analogs and evaluation of in-vitro biological activity against multi-drug resistant bacteriaDesign and synthesis of novel organocatalysts towards the development of new chiral methodologies

Research performed under Professor Sankaran ThayumanavanEvaluation of fluorgenic amphiphilic polymers as biosensors selective for metalloproteins

Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: PhD2Consulting Club, Community Consulting Teams of Atlanta, Metro Atlanta Chamber member, GeorgiaBio member.

Business Certificate, Entrepreneurial And Small Business Operations

Admitted to a highly selective technology commercialization business program. Formed a team with two MBA students from Georgia Tech and.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Performed research into the synthesis of novel organocatalytic compounds to catalyze asymmetric chemical transfomations. Also synthesized.

Bachelor, Chemistry

Studied International Relations before switching to Chemistry. Performed three years of research synthesizing amphiphilic dendrimers and.