Promega-Madison, WI
October 2020-Present
Product Manager, Instrumentation Software

Managing software product strategy and building analysis engines for scientists.

• Actively bridging the gap between stakeholders and software development teams while translating life sciences domain knowledge into actionable tasks.
• Developed analysis engines for implementation in production software to aid scientists analyze complex datasets, reducing processing time from multiple hours to seconds.
• Continuing development of ML and DL models for prediction based on numeric-based and image-based data inputs.

Specific Diagnostics-Mountain View, CA
October 2019-July 2020
Data Scientist

Designed pipelines for more efficient data processing and analysis.

• Refactored code base that produces statistics and highlights differences between different bacterial strains and their susceptibility with various antibiotics.
• Generated a data pipeline for drug plate analysis, reducing processing of a single plate from 20 minutes to a matter of seconds by converting a highly disjointed procedure to a streamlined one.
• Built script to convert PDF to csv, eliminating the need for manual data entry.
• Generated code that converted raw data into a customized report structure with various statistical outputs, resulting in an automated process that takes a few minutes instead of a handful of hours.

University of California, Berkeley Extension—Belmont, CA
Aug 2018-Jun 2020
Teaching Assistant, Data Analytics & Visualization Certification Program (Evening Program)

Actively prepared students for success in a fast-paced data analytics program.

• Provided instruction on technologies including: Git, VBA, Python, using APIs, sentiment analysis, SQL/NoSQL Databases, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, R, Tableau, and Machine Learning.
• Troubleshoot code and mentored students on organization, visualization, and interpretation of data to make impactful conclusions.

Promega—Sunnyvale, CA
Dec 2016-Oct 2017
Systems Engineer

Designed, performed and analyzed complex sets of capillary electrophoresis (CE) data produced by the Spectrum platform to determine reliability of the system.

• Collaborated within a multidisciplinary organization composed of engineers and scientists to troubleshoot the Spectrum platform at various stages of product development.
• Proactively performed root-cause failure analysis of instrumentation systems and presented analyzed data to relevant teams, resulting in improved prototype performance and reliability.
• Verified Spectrum assembly instructions by building an instrument.
• Performed proof-of-concept experiments resulting in the subsequent development of a new device.

LakePharma—Belmont, CA
Aug 2015- Dec 2016
Scientist

Successfully developed customized biofunctional assays that include cell-based reporter assays, lysate-based colorimetric assays, ELISAs, and FACS-based assays (Accuri C6, IntelliCyt iQue).

• Developed and optimized the standard operating procedure for hybridoma electrofusion, associated media conditions, and assays for high-throughput hybridoma characterization/screening.
• Managed campaigns for oncology targets for antibody selection and therapeutic use.
• Completed the molecular construction of 148 vectors that express target proteins utilizing a combination of techniques (gene synthesis, PCR, ligation, homologous recombination).
• Optimized the dual-expression vector and standard construction procedure to reduce cloning time from one month to one week.

Galxyz—Mountain View, CA
2014-2015
Science Curricula Developer

Created and managed implementation of integrated science curriculum in accordance with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Common Core. The curricula took complex scientific ideas and converted them to fun, interactive lessons, assessments, and experiments for multiple age levels.

DeVry University—Fremont, CA
2012-2014
Visiting Professor

Developed coursework and instructed students in accelerated undergraduate courses that included Nutrition, Anatomy/Physiology, Biology, and Chemistry.

Sylvan Learning Center—Burlingame, CA
2008-2014
Instructor

Taught a wide range of subjects to varying age groups that included: math (elementary to calculus), reading/writing, all science disciplines (elementary to AP), history, and standardized test preparation.