Experience

Allen Institute for Immunology

• United States
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, High Resolution Translational Immunology

  • Feb 2023 - Present

  Greater Seattle Area From the ground up, built a team of over 30 FTE that developed a cutting edge deep immune profiling platform for human longitudinal studies including high dimensional flow cytometry, single cell multi-omics, scalable genetic perturbations and proteomics with liquid handling automation. This work culminated to produce the world's largest human immune cell database. Invented world first technologies, including TEA-seq to drive novel insights in human immune health and disease resulting in… Show more From the ground up, built a team of over 30 FTE that developed a cutting edge deep immune profiling platform for human longitudinal studies including high dimensional flow cytometry, single cell multi-omics, scalable genetic perturbations and proteomics with liquid handling automation. This work culminated to produce the world's largest human immune cell database. Invented world first technologies, including TEA-seq to drive novel insights in human immune health and disease resulting in multiple publications and patent applications. Co-ordinate with scientists, computational biologists and software engineers for assay development and implementation. Developed and rolled out bioinformatic tools to democratize analysis across the research community. Developed long standing partnerships with biopharma in clinical trials and biotech in product development.

• Director, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

  • May 2019 - May 2023

  Greater Seattle Area Lead a team of scientists and associates in scalable and robust single cell sequencing and molecular studies to support longitudinal studies of human immune health and disease. Optimize existing technologies to simultaneously increase data quality and high dollar cost reductions. Ground up innovation to develop world first single cell assays: TEA-seq and application to disease or therapeutic settings. Communicate strategic roadmaps across teams, including with bioinformaticians and software… Show more Lead a team of scientists and associates in scalable and robust single cell sequencing and molecular studies to support longitudinal studies of human immune health and disease. Optimize existing technologies to simultaneously increase data quality and high dollar cost reductions. Ground up innovation to develop world first single cell assays: TEA-seq and application to disease or therapeutic settings. Communicate strategic roadmaps across teams, including with bioinformaticians and software engineers to ensure rapid success. Achieved key deliverables including publications, patent filings, external funding and biopharma partner engagement.

• Director, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (interim)

  • Nov 2019 - Jun 2020

• Director, Experimental Immunology (interim)

  • Jun 2019 - Nov 2019

  Recruit and support a team in generating multiple high dimension flow cytometry panels including BD FACSymphony and CyTOF. Ensure robust data collection for longitudinal analysis of human PBMC samples.



NanoString Technologies, Inc.

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Senior Scientist: Hyb&Seq Core Chemistry Lead

  • Sep 2018 - Apr 2019

  Greater Seattle Area Co-ordinate and facilitate experimental design for the development of a novel Next-Gen Sequencing technology: Hyb&Seq. Develop bioinformatic and analytical frameworks for rapid data processing and decision making. Communicate key learnings within and between teams. Build out timeframes and key deliverables for the team. 2018 Nanostring Key Corporate Goals Award - Hyb & Seq NGS platform development "Most impactful" contributor

• Scientist: Hyb&Seq Core Chemistry Lead

  • Mar 2018 - Aug 2018

  Greater Seattle Area

• Scientist II (Data Analysis Sub-Team Lead)

  • Aug 2017 - Mar 2018

  Greater Seattle Area Implementing and coordinating experiments for Hyb&Seq chemistry development. Building bioinformatic pipelines for data analysis and visualization to enable fast-paced decision making.



Howard Hughes Medical Institute

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Specialist

  • Jan 2016 - Aug 2017

  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Designing and implementing a research program. Mentoring and supporting team members. Generating standardized research protocols that have been optimized to allow broad applications of new techniques by multiple researchers. Writing and testing scripts for bioinformatic analysis in Bash, Python and R. Data analysis and scientific writing for publication and grant applications.



Fred Hutch

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Research Associate

  • May 2011 - Dec 2015

  Seattle



Wellcome Trust Centre of Cell Biology

• Postdoctoral Research Associate

  • Apr 2010 - May 2011

  Edinburgh, United Kingdom