Tyrrell A. Nelson Email & Phone Number

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

San Diego, California, United States

South San Francisco, California, United States

• Lead teams of Technical Support, Field Applications and Service Engineers including supervisors and managers.
• Management of Global Beta Evaluation Program- functioned as primary customer contact & interface for over 9 sites across 4 countries.
• Responsible for capturing complaints, feedback and customer experience using Syntax instrumentation, reagents, workflows, and software- ensuring feedback, issues and feature requests were fed into product improvements.

San Carlos, California, United States

• Lead a team of Field/Applications Scientists in establishing, implementing and executing the support strategy for GALT’s novel Prospector microbial cultivation array technology.
• Innovated remote training solutions to support decentralized training capabilities while designing and developing a training strategy to support regional growth.

San Jose, California

• Lead a team of scientists & engineers responsible for global case management, investigation and end to end resolution of complaints/inquires for Roche Sequencing product lines: Harmony NIPT assay & the AVENIO Millisect.

Pleasanton, CA

• Designed Roche applications training curriculum and conducted global training of field application scientists (EMEA, LATAM & APAC) on pre- and post-launch technical/applications of AVENIO ctDNA & Tumor Tissue Analysis.
• Partnered with Sales and Marketing management leadership to assess training needs, develop an implementation plan, and to create learning/training initiatives globally.

Santa Clara, CA

• Designed, validated and initiated company wide implementation of novel library preparations for the Genia single molecule nanopore sequencer.
• Responsible for customer ready protocols, kits and technical documents in support of instrumentrelease to customer.
• Development and implementation of rigorous QC and validation requirements

Menlo Park

• Strain Engineering, methanotroph metabolic engineeringhttp://calysta.com/
• Design and construction of gene manipulations through targeted plasmid design and vector delivery into host strains
• Creation & Incorporation of synthetic genes within methanotrophs to induce target metabolites, proteins and fermentation products for industrial and agricultural applications.

Molecular NGS R&D Lab, Helen Diller Cancer Center, Mount Zion

• Lead the development, validation & implementation of high throughput cancer profiling panels including targeted SeqCap EZ capture/ID through Illumina HiSeq NGS.
• Developed/collaborated on circulating tumor cell (CTC) profiling via digital droplet detection
• Investigated various clonality testing kits for use and implementation

Clark Center

• Functional metabolomics, metatranscriptomics and genomic characterization of microbial communities within environmental samples, patients and animal models.
• Human Microbiome R&D- connecting microbial identity, function and host interactions.
• Characterization of trematode/host interactions through array based transcriptional profiling.

• Lab management and support for the undergraduate Bio44 Core teaching lab course of over 300 students and 60 teaching assistants.
• Curriculum development, teaching & implementation of Molecular, Genetic, Dev. Bio and Animal Behavior laboratory experiments & protocols for courses.
• Collaboration with EH&S in developing and writing safety manuals for each of the six lab courses taught, ensuring proper guidance/protection of students and teachers within the classroom.

Microbiology, Genomics

B.S., Biopsychology