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South San Francisco, California, United States

Stevenage, England, United Kingdom

* Developed and tested in-house production equipment, culminating in Patent US 11,939,565 B1. Helped run complete workflows utilizing production equipment from cell culture through product purification. * Assisted with upstream process development, including maintaining cell cultures and performing experiments to test and optimize small-scale viral vector production. * Implemented and executed analytical assays to quantify results such as Gels, Mass Photometry, dPCR, etc.* Built & managed the first experimental laboratories. Starting from a bare warehouse, worked with contractors to design and build out multiple laboratories.* Assist with regular administrative tasks such as procurement, inventory, and payments. Operated company forklift, including completion of training course.

London, England, United Kingdom

South San Francisco

* Design and construct custom automated laboratory workcells* Serve as technical program manager for the automation engineering group and collaborate with other teams to help determine project requirements for fully automated NGS sample processing.* Support existing production by providing data analysis and guidance on how to troubleshoot production issues.* Train new employees of R&D and Operations group, including mechanical engineers, software engineers, application engineers, scientists, and research assistants.

South San Francisco

Responsible for monitoring production, troubleshooting, documenting and fixing hardware and software issues that arise overnight to maximize production uptime. This includes a large array of robotic equipment and Tecan EVO liquid handlers. Additionally responsible for creating and writing new onboarding documentation and improving quality control documentation.

South San Francisco, Ca

Solely responsible for managing the automated robotics production stack overnight. This includes monitoring production, troubleshooting, documenting and fixing hardware and software issues that arise overnight to maximize production uptime. Other responsibilities include performing over 600 annual routine maintenance tasks on production robotics + servers, and a number of hardware + software projects as needed. These have included the design, budgeting, programming, and installation of several automated water/waste systems, writing software scripts for testing production machines, and mechanical design projects.

South San Francisco, Ca

Pasadena, Ca

Programmed using NI LabVIEW® to gather, analyze, and present data from development systems. Managed client systems including hardware selection, design and fabrication of custom enclosures, wiring, testing and debugging. Built computers for client systems including hardware selection, assembling computers and software installations.

Davis, Ca

Researched cell-cell adhesion processes, cell-self adhesion processes, and cellular motility. Maintained a viable cell culture and performed experiments using protein inhibitors. Used microscopy imaging to quantitatively and qualitatively assess effects of protein inhibitors.

Davis, Ca

Researched effects of a controlled bacterial infection on the growth of Glioblastoma cancer cells. Created agarose beads filled with bacteria used in experiments. Maintained a bacterial culture, prepared fabrication materials, and managed personal laboratory space and experiments. Assisted with rat surgeries including implantation of tumor cells. Oversaw rat health post-surgery.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biomedical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Capstone Design, Biomedical Engineering Society memberDesigned, built and validated a mobile mechanical.

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