Rory Lentz Email & Phone Number

At Beckman-Coulter, I played a lead role in helping the CEQ system become successful in the field. I developed excellent training and troubleshooting skills in the 9 years working as a field applications scientist for Beckman-Coulter. I helped customers with their research in a very broad range of studies, by optimizing their assays for many areas of research, including; cancer and disease diagnosis and testing, Oceanographic studies, Plant genetics, public health, and fish genetics. This was primarily done while I was acting as the senior support scientist for the CEQ/GeXP instrument line, of which I was the longest standing support scientist for.I was the primary customer contact in developing a new fragment sizing application; tRFLP and worked closely with the USC Marine Biology Department to implement this technique in their studies. With the help of a professor at Cal Poly SLO, I helped develop and promote an analysis tool for this application. I was also instrumental in helping train fellow field scientists from around the U.S. and the world on advanced fragment analysis applications.I have a strong background in Molecular Biology with research experience in Maize developmental genetics and characterization, as well as Arabidopsis functional genomics analysis using cDNA Microarrays.I acted as one of 3 primary trainers (in the U.S.) on the SNPstream high-throughput SNP analysis system, and performed the first training of a clinical lab in it's operation for FDA approval of a clinical personal-genetics assay.More recently at Beckman-Coulter, I was performing field service duties on the CEQ and several centrifuge product lines, performing installations and PMC's for the former, and PMC's only for the latter instruments. I was trained to be a certified field engineer for the CE protein and small molecule analyzers; the MDQ and the PA-800 products in the PNW area.Specialties: Customer technical support, customer and employee technical training, molecular biology applications troubleshooting, web-based assay design for gene expression and SNP detection, sales training and support, and remote web-training and distance learning techniques. Instrument installation, hardware troubleshooting, and field repair for both genetic analysis instruments and capillary electrophoresis analysis platforms.

Listed skills include Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Laboratory, and 46 others.