Experience

Wyss Institute at Harvard University

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Director Of Business Development

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  Boston, Massachusetts, United States



ReadCoor, Inc.

• Co-founder & Vice President, Global Partnerships

  • Oct 2019 - Dec 2020

  Greater Boston Area • Collaboratively built company from founding through to $350 million acquisition by 10x Genomics. • Headed product vision of Sales, Business Development, and Marketing/Communications, and orchestration with cross-functional teams in Bio, Software, and Hardware Engineering; reported directly to CEO. • Reconciled product management across Bio, Software, Hardware, and Sales to ensure meeting business goals. • Analyzed market of spatial sequencing, competitive landscape, and customer… Show more • Collaboratively built company from founding through to $350 million acquisition by 10x Genomics. • Headed product vision of Sales, Business Development, and Marketing/Communications, and orchestration with cross-functional teams in Bio, Software, and Hardware Engineering; reported directly to CEO. • Reconciled product management across Bio, Software, Hardware, and Sales to ensure meeting business goals. • Analyzed market of spatial sequencing, competitive landscape, and customer needs to focus commercial strategy. • Created and delivered value driven presentations for instrument sales, pharma partnerships, and brand awareness.

• Co-founder & Director of Sponsored Research

  • Oct 2016 - Oct 2019

  Greater Boston Area • Built and managed external business affairs including contract negotiation, budget, and customer satisfaction. • Principal Investigator of multi-million-dollar grants and contracts with institutes, government, and pharma, such as The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, IARPA, WAVE Life Sciences, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. • Researched, implemented, and advised software development in primary analysis: pipeline development, low-rank sparse devinginetting (BaSIC), wavelet filtering… Show more • Built and managed external business affairs including contract negotiation, budget, and customer satisfaction. • Principal Investigator of multi-million-dollar grants and contracts with institutes, government, and pharma, such as The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, IARPA, WAVE Life Sciences, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. • Researched, implemented, and advised software development in primary analysis: pipeline development, low-rank sparse devinginetting (BaSIC), wavelet filtering, object finding, blind deconvolution, customer data specifications; and secondary analysis: k-d tree all-pairs nearest neighbor target co-occurrence, dimensionality reduction (UMAP, Truncated SVD, HDBSCAN), and customer facing tutorials • Spearheaded business development through identifying and soliciting corporate and academic collaborators.

• Co-Founder

  • Jun 2014 - Oct 2016



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Software Engineer

  • Apr 2013 - Jan 2017

  Boston, MA • On the Advanced Technology Team in George Church's Lab. I worked both as a Software Engineer and Data Scientist. • Managed and lead many projects including IARPA MICrONS multi-institute consortia to map 1mm cube of a mouse brain at the synaptic level with Fluorescent in-situ sequencing (FISSEQ). • Coordinated 10+ academic collaborations for FISSEQ, including writing grants with them, sample tracking from arrival through data return, and bioinformatics of the results. • Developed… Show more • On the Advanced Technology Team in George Church's Lab. I worked both as a Software Engineer and Data Scientist. • Managed and lead many projects including IARPA MICrONS multi-institute consortia to map 1mm cube of a mouse brain at the synaptic level with Fluorescent in-situ sequencing (FISSEQ). • Coordinated 10+ academic collaborations for FISSEQ, including writing grants with them, sample tracking from arrival through data return, and bioinformatics of the results. • Developed and maintained image analysis pipeline for processing multi-TB data sets from the in house build ARC-GT FISSEQ sequencer (C++/Python). • Bioinformatics of transcriptome from many FISSEQ samples, including human cancer and normal tissue, mouse, cell culture, and C. elegans. • Aided Scientists, Postdocs, and Graduate Students in data analysis, experimental planning, and produced software with their input to help them in daily tasks, e.g. image analysis GUI to determine if rolonies are clonal (MATLAB), R scripts to analyze data, python bioinformatics. • Daily laboratory coordination including sample management, vendors/suppliers, laboratory orders, data sharing of large data sets, and data analysis. • Wet bench work optimizing FISSEQ protocol for the mouse brain. • Encoded a movie in DNA, “A trip to the Moon” (700MB) with Technicolor, George Church, and Brian Turczyk. Performed the bioinformatics for library construction and troubleshooting. Credited. Show less



Institut Pasteur

• France
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Mar 2011 - Mar 2013

  Integrative Neurobiology of Cholinergic Systems (NISC)



MIT Media Lab Europe

• Research Associate

  • 2003 - 2005

  Dublin, Ireland