Robert Taylor Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Renton, Washington

Greater Seattle Area

• Shaped and executed new strategies to push new paradigms in diagnostics for global health, including technological innovation, new business models, strategic partnerships, with renewed user focus.
• Lead ‘Healthphone’ effort to create open standards to allow generic smartphones to read and connect regulated in-vitro diagnostics with NIH, technology company, and academic partners.
• Co-managed the foundation’s $35M Point-of-Care initiative, an initiative to re-define the delivery and business model for in-vitro diagnostics through the integration of new low-cost technologies.
• Directly managed >$40M in foundation investments, including cutting edge technology research, clinical IVD product development, and user research & support grants to a diverse array of grantees, including academics.
• Served as an expert resource for the foundation’s investments in clinical diagnostics, research tools, and biomarkers.

Greater Seattle Area

• Client: Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationSupported the Global Health Discovery group in diverse roles including technical analysis, program management, and portfolio development. Sample of key initiatives:
• Grand Challenges Diagnostics RFP: Serves as a subject matter expert and supports solicitation and program management. Provided technical and programmatic review of the letters-of-intent and proposals, synthesized data.
• Grand Challenges Explorations(GCE): Supports a novel, high-volume, innovation-centric solicitation and grantmaking effort providing program management, strategy, and technical review. Managed multiple rounds of.
• Grand Challenges in Global Health: Supported several clients with grant management and technical and strategic review for flagship grants covering diverse technical ground including humanized mouse models and modified.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Client: Department of Homeland Security - Science and Technology Directorate Provided key technical and programmatic support to large government programs funding new technologies and concepts in biosensors and.
• Lead technical and programmatic Scientific Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support for the BioInformatics and Assay Development (BIAD) program for Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency.
• Lead technical and programmatic SETA support for the Bioagent Autonomous Networked Detector (BAND) program at HSARPA.

Alexandria, Virginia

• Provided program management, subject matter expertise, proposal and concept development, and technical performance for programs in bio-defense and WMD intelligence.
• Performed conceptual design, proposal leadership, and program management for ITT’s contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Threat Agent Cloud Tactical Intercept and Countermeasures (TACTIC).
• Integrated Project Team (IPT) Leader under ITT’s contract for DARPA’s Spectral Sensing of Biological Agents (SSBA) program.
• Proposal Manager and Program Manager for classified task order contract.
• Provided technical support, programmatic support, acted as customer interface for several biologically-related classified contracts.
• Performed program management and technical performance on an effort involving DNA-based sensors.