Zack Collins Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, NC, US

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• As a Professional Services Consultant, my role is to collaborate with the Professional Services and Development teams to ensure customers are successful with their use of the LIMS software to automate their.
• Assisting customers with system configuration of the software
• Performing business analysis of the customer’s laboratory operations
• Developing custom PL/SQL and C# code to meet the customer’s needs
• Developing custom report templates
• Developing parsers to allow laboratory instrumentation to interface with LIMS software

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Acting as a technical project manager, leading cross-functional teams for technology transfer of manufacturing processes from development space into manufacturing space.
• Responsible for planning, executing, and reporting on lab studies to support validation of new commercial manufacturing programs.
• Continuous improvement and maintenance of web-based applications for clinical manufacturing and lab data management (Django web framework).
• Providing technical expertise to the contract development work conducted in Manufacturing Sciences labs in addition to other clinical and manufacturing campaigns run at the site.
• Executing analytical techniques, developing laboratory models and performing laboratory experiments towards process trending, optimization, and robustness.
• Improving and expanding laboratory methods and MS protocols and systems.

Raleigh, NC

• Ensuring lab readiness for downstream operations.
• Communicating analyses and decisions to technical teams in a timely and professional manner.
• Training new hires on techniques and systems.
• Developed scale-down models for commercial and clinical manufacturing processes to ensure parameters scaled appropriately.
• Managed existing and developed new relationships with clinical manufacturing partners to ensure their needs were met.
• Responded to manufacturing deviations quickly and efficiently and used technical problem-solving skills to save troubled manufacturing batches.

My research sought to understand more about the interface between geology and microbial life.My most recent project dealt with the study of several species of rhizobia found in plant root nodules. The project involved growing the rhizobia in microaerophilic environments to study previously unknown iron-oxidizing capabilities of the bacteria.Past project.

Oak Island, NC

Alternated between working as the cart operation manager, loading and unloading the carts and overseeing day to day operations, and managing the store location, serving customers, delegating responsibilities to employees, keeping track of inventory and cash flow, and maintaining a positive and inviting atmosphere for customers and guests.