William Ivory Email & Phone Number

Rockville, Maryland, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

Manage Guardant Health’s Reagent Manufacturing automation group responsible for automation, implementation and validation of reagent aliquoting Hamilton Vantage, Agilent Bravo and BioTek multiple liquid handling robots in a production manufacture lab. Oversee the consolidation of multiple discreet methods into variable driven shared methods. Manage the rewrite of Hamilton Star NGS methods and associated LIMS integration to support next generation Oncology assay.Oversee the design development and implementation of a BioSero Green Button Go workcells to perform and track the plating of reagent assemblies.

Employee number two at a multiomics startup focusing on early disease detection.Setup labs, office space, IT infrastructure and facilities infrastructure in a new office.Developed and executed plan for DiscernDx’s Research and Development Automation. Utilized Tecan EVO and Agilent Bravo liquid handling robots to perform sample and reagent aliquoting, Proteomics, Metabolomics and Lipidomics sample processing to support method development and pre-clinical studies. Managed a direct report responsible for performing development experiments and pre-clinical studies.IT management responsibilities included implementing and managing IT infrastructure; Meraki network (Security Device, Switches, AP’s and VPN), QNAP network storage, Domain registration (Active Directory), computer configuration, ISP and FreezerPro (on-premises freezer inventory management system).Facilities responsibilities included lab design / setup, managing lab buildout including electrical drops and in-house gas lines. Installation of copper, steel and plastic lines to transfer gas to equipment. Running ethernet cable. Installation of laboratory equipment.Safety Officer, responsible for overseeing safety training developing and enforcing company safety policies including implementation of a COVID-19 company policy. Responsible for managing Federal, state and local documentation.

Austin, Texas, Us

Managed Natera's Development Automation Group. Responsibilities included leading an eleven person multi-site team for the development and implementation of automated systems to support the processing of patient samples for Noninvasive Prenatal Screening (NIPT) and Carrier Screening in a CAP / CLIA regulated clinical diagnostics laboratory. Managed the implementation of Panorama V2 Automation updates impacting Tecan and Hamilton methods supporting plasma isolation through sequence preparation.Designed developed and implemented the in house Horizon Carrier Screening Assay consisting of Tecan Fluent systems to perform extraction through NGS sequencing, reflex Sanger sequencing setup as well as an MLPA assay.Decreased Panorama V1 high rePCR rate by changing equipment used at key steps.

Austin, Texas, Us

Gaithersburg, Maryland, Us

Responsible for researching new software and hardware technologies, determined groups that would benefit from the new technology, made purchasing decisions for and worked with customer groups to implement said technology. Frequently negotiated with external companies to acquire necessary products and services.Responsible for programing robots to perform biochemical and molecular biology assays. Specialized in creating interfaces written in C# .net to accept user information and perform calculations to expand the capabilities of the liquid handling robots. Created and managed SQL databases, managed, supported and upgraded OS, and instrument software. Provided technical support for laboratory hardware, software and computer systems.Developed Hamilton Star, Beckman NX / FX, Agilent Bravo and PerkinElmer Cyclone methods to support the ELISA and AlphaLISA assays.Developed a Flow Cytometry staining method on a Hamilton Star driven by a custom software that converts user inputs into a Hamilton worklist.

Gaithersburg, Maryland, Us

Created data-driven solution to help scientists store and interpret results that are difficult to analyze without software. Brought onto several projects to evaluate program effectiveness and provide recommendations for policy and objective changes to improve project effectiveness and streamline employee work.

Gaithersburg, Maryland, Us

Worked with a team of scientists and engineers to develop and implement a cell culture screening and passing system comprised of a Hamilton Star integrated with a Cellavista and Octet QK384.Automated aliquoting of reference standards in 2D barcoded Matrix tubes on a Tecan EVO200 with integrated carousel and Capit-All IS. Reference standard and vial information tracked in integrated Labware LIMS system.Worked with a team of scientists to develop and implement and automated oligosaccharide profiling method on a Tecan EVO200. Method includes sample normalization and integrated vacuums filtration.Developed Formulations assays to support Differential Scanning Fluorescence (DFS) and Differential Static Light Scattering (DSLS) on a Tecan EVO200.Developed method to support a sample normalization and Oligosaccharide Profiling assays on Tecan EVO200.Managed, trained, and mentored a direct report to work on his own laboratory automation and software development projects.

Rockville, Md, Us

Setup and programmed a Tecan EVO liquid handling robot to perform real time PCR in a 384 well plate. Implemented a Qiagen QIAxcel and QIAsymphony to be used as part of Pharma residual DNA studies.

Developed an application to create rpsBLAST queries of modified protein sequences and then plot overlaps in results. Additionally I worked on producing protein fragments with intact lipid binding domains.

Assisted on a project to extract, sequence, analyze and database mtDNA sequences.

Masters Of Science, Biology

Bachelor Of Science, Science