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Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

North Bend, Wa

Introduce Organizational Strategies to Enhance Corporate Competitiveness, R&D Development, Culture, & Leadership • Deliver leadership/revenue development and effective change management methodologies • Generate methodologies for enhancing productivity and building revenue by locating, developing, defining, negotiating & closing business relationships• Business development of collaboration systems visit: Ex-Ite.com

Seattle, Wa

Deputy director forCureWorks and forming the business operations of an international collaborative of institutions interested in performing and developing early phase clinical trials for pediatric cancer immunotherapy. CureWorks (CureWorks.org) assists multi-disciplinary teams across technical, clinical and scientific disciplines to share the costs of immunotherapy infrastructure and manufacturing unique first-in-human pediatric products. The position is focused on creating a replicable model for future immuno-oncological translational research in investigational drug development with full support into the clinic.

Boulder, Co

Led all corporate functions of the National Ecological Observatory Network.Managed total budget in excess of $430M, with operating costs to exceed $50M/year for the next 30 yrs. Annual expenditures were approximately $50M for personnel and over $70M for scientific equipment, leases, construction materials and permitting. The CEO Grew the company from 150 to over 350 Full time staff in CO, with an additional 150 full time staff across 18 different USA regional offices from Alaska to Puerto Rico. Negotiated interoperability of data resources with international partners, federal agencies, and other non-profit institutes. http://video.ucar.edu/mms/eol/2014/r_lea.mp4

Mobile, Al

The VPR office oversaw all activities related to the development of R&D proposals from 7 university colleges. Through training, effective communication with funding agencies, building multidisciplinary research teams, the R&D expenditures doubled in three years from $27M to $54M. This rapid growth of R&D expenditures allowed the campus to become reclassified by the Carnegie Corporation as one with High Research activity putting it on par with other major research universities in the state (e.g. Auburn, and Alabama). The VPR office was responsible for all R&D compliance, training, intellectual property management ($4M in royalties/yr.). The VPR directly oversaw the corporate partnership campus (1,000 employees), the University Research Corporation ($8M annual revenue), and was the institution's representative for all inter-institutional research facilities such as the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama EpSCORE and Alabama Launchpad.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

The VPR office was responsible for all R&D activities from the affiliated 16 colleges and two high schools that comprised the UNC System. The VPR was the spokesperson for the state's public institutions as it related to state, national and international priorities for R&D. The VPR assembled and assisted multi-disciplanry teams seek millions of dollars of new support and organized capital campaign efforts to build new facilities such as the North Carolina Research Campus ($1B), the Coastal Studies Institute ($32M), the Bioprocessing Training and Education Center ($36M). Intellectual property management was developed for all campuses by initiating a private/public partnership with Seed Stage, LLC that handled all IP matters for campuses whose offices were simply underfunded/understaffed to handle the emergence of faculty innovations. Under the VPR, R&D expenditures rose from $500M to $1B in less than 5 years. All inter-institutional centers and institutes reported to the VPR office, such as: UNC Arboretum, Coastal Studies Institute, Highland Biological Field Station, Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, Sea Grant, etc. All UNC R&D compliance and audit controls were overseen by the VPR and had to be reported to the UNC Board of Governors.

Raleigh, North Carolina

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Ph.D.

Bachelor’S Degree, Forest Science

Activities and Societies: Varsity lightweight crew, Respiratory technician at Harbourview Medical Center