Experience

DNA Electronics (DNAe)

• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Sr. Scientist

  • Apr 2021 - Present

• Staff Scientist II

  • May 2017 - Apr 2021

  Carlsbad, California Team Lead managing development of DNAe's sample preparation technology for a NGS platform.



Thermo Fisher Scientific

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Scientist III (Sr. Associate Scientist)

  • 2009 - Sep 2016

  Carlsbad, CA R&D Scientist with experience in product development for IVD clinical market, targeted and whole genome sequencing Ion Torrent and SOLiD next generation sequencing platforms.



Life Technologies

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Scientist III

  • 2006 - 2009

  Carlsbad, CA R&D associate scientist with expertise in designing and executing projects and experiments for epigenetic workflows (methylated DNA capture/anaylsis and RNAi gene expression regulation), utilizing various molecular biology and tissue culture techniques.



Invitrogen (now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific)

• Research Associate II

  • 2003 - 2006

  Carlsbad, CA R&D experience in product research and development for gene expression regulation products for RNAi market. Gene expression target library design, preparation and database management.

• Research Associate I

  • 2001 - 2003

  Carlsbad, CA Design, test and optimize new sub-cloning vector molecular biology products and methodologies.



UC San Diego

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lab Assistant for Faculty Mentor Program

  • 2000 - 2000

  La Jolla, CA Undergraduate Faculty Mentor Program research lab assistant, working with Principal Investigator Dr. Laurie Smith and post-doctoral graduate student Mary J. Frank at UCSD Plant Biology laboratory on characterizing and mapping a "brick" cell shape morphology phenotype in Maize mutants.



UC San Diego

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lab Assistant

  • 1999 - 1999

  La Jolla, CA Undergraduate laboratory assistant in Martin F. Yanofsky's lab learning and performing various molecular biology and plant cultivation skills.