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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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