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West Kelowna, Bc, Ca

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Richmond, British Columbia

- Instrumental in helping drive company direction and supporting strategic C-level decisions through data generation and analysis including market intelligence reports, NPV valuations for lead products, patent landscape analysis and IPO viability research - Successfully managing an IP portfolio comprising of 100+ patents across 25+ jurisdictions with 40+ individual inventions and 500+ claims involving full accountability for budgeting, forecasting, resource allocation, and ongoing prosecution: Link to Google Patents - Administrator for all internal IT systems (Office 365 and Azure) and web properties. Led website redevelopment project including redesign, search engine optimization and technical speed improvements resulting in more qualified web traffic and increased organic rankings: Link to website - Negotiated complex in and out licensing, procurement, R&D and clinical trial contracts, that assisted the team to meet internal KPIs

Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

- Promoted to manage all IP, business development opportunities and legal resources - Successfully produced 500+ IP claims by analyzing 5+ years of R&D data using python and machine learning libraries. These claims protect compositions, methods and utility of a novel therapeutic product until at least 2039 - Performed freedom to operate, patentability and validity analysis on drafted claims, to identify additional patentable concepts around lead therapeutic and avoid expenses towards claims unlikely to be issued - Ensured protection of lead therapeutic product in 25+ key jurisdictions through carefully managing a +$1M budget as well as efficiently allocating resources around patent drafting, filing, translation and examination activities - Successfully obtained 20+ allowances for patent portfolio through aggressive and timely patent prosecution activities - Secured over $10M in non-dilutive up front funding and over $20M in ongoing milestone payments by out-licensing IP to a large pharmaceutical company - Streamlined contract negotiations by maintaining up-to-date contract templates including NDAs, procurement agreements, licensing agreements, distribution agreements and more.

Richmond, Bc

- Delivered 10+ innovative methods for the ultrapurification of a naturally occurring polysaccharide through agile management of project R&D teams - Scaled manufacturing process 250x and applied agile methodology to troubleshooting resulting in 50% processing time reduction while meeting project timelines - Initiated transition of quality control activities to comply with ISO 13485 through generation of SOPs and software validation methodology (IQ, OQ, PQ). - Procured key equipment and raw materials required for R&D, manufacturing and quality control activities (>$250k budget)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Managed Computer Vision AI project comprising the production of machine learning algorithms that aid in detecting dental conditions. The project was managed under an Agile development environment leveraging Jira/Confluence/Trello - Was able to secure C-level buy in for AI projects through a detailed project proposal that involved conducting user interviews, clinical literature review, requirement gathering, story generation, technical design, ROI estimates and resource estimation - Queried Azure blob storage using SQL and directed labeling sprints to generate metadata on 10,000+ DICOM images for CNN model training - Prototyped ML algorithms using Tensorflow, Keras, OpenCV in Jupyter Notebooks to produce under 5 seconds inference pipelines - Increased MRR by finding integration opportunity of third-party solution into core SaaS imaging product through partnership and rev-share contract negotiation - Reviewed claim sets in patents scheduled for renewal to identify synergy with SaaS offerings

Vancouver, Bc

High throughput analytical testing: Analysis and quality control of 1000+ geochemical samples daily under an ISO 9001 environment. Quality control: Data analysis using comprehensive laboratory information management system.Instrumentation maintenance: Mechnical/electonic/software related troubleshooting of ICP-OES and ICP-MS instrumentation.

Burnaby, Bc

Walmart MC sales: Volume sales, 150% of team average (6 sign-ups/day)

Vancouver, Bc

Phys Chem: - Developed and assembled high-vacuum systems for resonance enhanced multi-photon ioniztion experiments utilizing narrow band-width laser excitation coupled to time-of-flight apparatus for the detection of gaseous molecules (eg. organic pollutants). - Programmed instrumentation using LabVIEW for process initiation and oscilloscope tracking to reduce experimentation time by 25%. - Implemented data-clean up activities utilizing excel and python to reduce signal-to-noise ratios by a factor of 5. Inorganic Chem: Produced 6 different novel unstable copper(I) complexes under inert atmospheric conditions utilizing Schlenk line and glove box apparatus and used of thermogravimetric analysis to assess the kinetic properties of these complexes.

Vancouver, Bc

Bioactive Wound Dressing: Conducted R&D on synthetic pathways towards a novel polysaccharide used in a bioactive patch that detects when wound dressings on chronic wounds should be changed.Thesis: Achieved honours standing and distinction for thesis on the functionalization of polysaccharides for nanocellulose materials development involving the synthesis of numerous novel compounds and the development of cross-linking conditions with nanocellulose substrates. Experienced in over 10 analytical instruments to quantify and characterize compounds and molecules, including: HPLC, HPAE-PAD, ICP-MS, GC-MS, LC-MS, UV-Vis, MALDI-MS, NMR, AFM, FTIR, atomic absorption, conductivity measurement apparatus and numerous biochemical assays.

Ontario, Canada

Character & Work Ethic Building Sales: High volume door-to-door sales for 13 hours a day, 6 days a week, carrying 10+ kgs of books on my back achieving 100+ weekly sales demonstrations over 6 weeks with 100% accountability for paperwork.

Bachelor'S Degree, Honors Chemistry, Minor In Commerce, 3.7 Or 80%

Activities and Societies: Undergraduate Chemistry Society, International Student Association of Sauder, Médecins sans frontières Thesis.

Certificate In Ip Licensing, Ip Licensing

Coursework on drafting a license agreement between two medical software companies including: grant clauses (patents, design, know-how.

Data Science

Coursework on predicting outcome of NBA regular season game, comparing the predictive capability of numerous ensemble and regression based.

Pmp Certification, Project Management

Web Developer Bootcamp

Self-paced full stack development including HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery, Bootstrap, SemanticUI, NodeJS, Express, MongoDB and more. Project.

Business Development Fundamentals

Bio's own course on business development for the pharmaceutical industry including strategic alliances and negotiations, role.

Strategic Ip Planning

Course on managing an intellectual portfolio strategically, using a toolbox of frameworks including 5-step DIPS methodology, IP mapping.

Patents

Course on drafting, obtaining and enforcing patents, and exploiting global intellectual property rights with a focus on biotechnology.

Patent Administration Ii

Course on the intricacies and fine details of patent administration

Must Know Ip Law (Patent, Trademark And Copyright)

Learning Business Contracts

Patent Pending: Drafting A Prvosional Patent Applciation

Ib Diploma