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Microgravity Research Scientist NASA @ Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies Designed, built and conducted in flight experiment on March 28, 2001 on board NASA's KC-135 to study the effects microgravity has on photolithography to determine the feasibility of semiconductor manufacture in a low gravity environment From January 2000 to January 2001 (1 year 1 month)...

Microgravity Research Scientist NASA @ Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies Designed, built and conducted in flight experiment on March 28, 2001 on board NASA's KC-135 to study the effects microgravity has on photolithography to determine the feasibility of semiconductor manufacture in a low gravity environment From January 2000 to January 2001 (1 year 1 month) Houston, Texas AreaIntegration/Solution Architect (Consultant) @ Gilead Sciences • Dell Boomi Professional Developer - proficient in the use of Dell Boomi to maintain middleware data transfer between multiple enterprise and third party systems: MSSQL, MySQL, AWS, Data Virtualization Services Platform (Denodo), Oracle EBS, SalesForce, SharePoint, Team Connect, Veeva Vault and more.•Provide architectural oversight of IT project activities in their area(s) of expertise to ensure adherence to standards and best practices.•Participate in the development of process (Javascript, Python), data extracts (Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL), and technology standards and designs in their area(s) of technical expertise which increase capabilities, scale-ability and performance.• Stay abreast of industry standards, market forces and emerging technologies to understand their impact and how they can be best leveraged within the organization and technology landscape.• Participate as a member of a review council contributing to the development and adoption of the new architecture and standards across IT.• Provide solutions to the business, leveraging their technical expertise, a broad understanding of the current and future technology architectures, and an awareness of organizational key strategies and objectives.• Propose technology investments supported by a thorough technical analysis, proof of concept and business case.• Contribute to strategic technology planning, including proposed cost implications; able to anticipate business needs to effectively plan for the future of technologies supported.• Provide technical guidance, training, direction and review the work of colleagues working on architectural issues to ensure alignment. From May 2017 to April 2019 (2 years) Foster City, CaliforniaLab Informatics Consultant @ Illumina Laboratory Informatics consultant specializing in hands-on enterprise application development. Build relationships with the Lab Informatics team in the Reproductive and Genetic Health Business Unit focusing on the design, development and maintenance of the Company’s scientific and commercial software solutions surrounding Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT). Strong communication and collaboration with marketing, sales, finance, R&D, and clinical laboratory groups in a fast-paced biotechnology environment to gather business and functional requirements and deliver applications that improve and support business processes. Project lead in the design and development of customization and integration of the LIMS, BI and other software / database applications.•Lead and manage the lab informatics group which is responsible for laboratory information management system (LIMS) implementation and web application development•Lead, design, and development of the data warehouse and related applications serving multiple functional groups •Lead software verification and validation efforts for CLIA/CAP certified lab •Work cross functionally with all stakeholders to understand the business processes, gather user and functional requirements, prioritize projects and actively maintain business relationships•Technical management of production applications and servers including software installation, configuration, testing and release, version control, and change management. •Establish and maintain software development standards and best practices From March 2014 to August 2014 (6 months) San CarlosLIMS Consultant - Yale Scientific Park @ LIMS Software Consultant Work with end users to glean laboratory requirements and translate them to developers. Lead the development team to build 3-tiered software models for LIMS development in a clinical research setting using relational databases, HTML, Python, JavaScript and AJAX to build LIMS web services. Work with in-house and external developers to translate user requirements while maintaining strict source code control using PerForce. Perform UAT, OQ and PQ to ensure HIPPA and CLIA standards are met prior to release.  Understand and define end-user needs and enterprise behaviors to better relay requirements to developers and software engineers. Fully comprehend the entire enterprise structural layout to better formulate and develop specific scientific data capture modules  Use direct user requirements as a template for the software build Work with upper management to drive implementation plan and communicate milestones to management staff, developers and team members Analyze customer economics, business performance and development costs to better meet milestones in the software design Contribute to service delivery standards and best practices in order to develop re-usable knowledge capital for current and future implementations Excel in a high-powered team environment Provide support and education to users and developers in all aspects of software lifecycle Manage multiple implementation schedules, activities, client communications From September 2012 to August 2014 (2 years) USADirector of Information Technology @ Vivia Biotech Director of Information Technology for a $50 million Biotechnology enterprise focused on Personalized Medicine in the Spanish, European and International markets. Oversee LIMS, ELN, SaaS, Network Infrastructure, Change and Problem Management, FDA Regulatory Requirements, Documentation and Tutorials. Ensure that backup, recovery and anti-disaster strategies are aligned with business needs and enterprise continuity. Supervise and partake in the development and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for external selling Personalized Medicine system. Project Leader/Software Architect for Personalized Medicine LIMS delivered via SaaS. Work with Team leaders to capture intricate details of Patient Sample Management, Compound Management, Electronic Clinical Research Form (CRF), scientific workflow, experimental data and report findings to various scientists and doctors Continuously monitor internet security protocols and maintain state of the art backup strategies to ensure minimal down time in the event of systems failure Gather specific IT requirements for desktops, laptops, smart phones and hand-held communication devices, computer peripherals, data/voice/video and networking infrastructure equipment Inventor of Dilution Control System for controlled cellular viability enhancement Maintain all aspects of our enterprise software solutions and cloud based virtual servers, i.e. e-mail, data management, LIMS System, Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN), Active Directory, Exchange 2007, Windows Server 2008 & 2003 – direct the team to manage the day-to-day issues common in the enterprise Appraise, purchase and deliver up-to-date software/hardware solutions pertaining to networking and data management for the enterprise Deliver policies, tutorials, training and advise upper management on best practices and strategies to maintain a cutting edge over competition From October 2007 to September 2012 (5 years) Madrid Area, SpainProduct Lifecycle Management Software Consultant @ NASA - Marshall Space Flight Center / Catalyst Consulting Solutions, Inc.  Install, configure and tune network configurations to support Oracle, Windchill Solutions, Web Servers via JAVA, XML, JSP, HTML to support/create the customizations on Windows and UNIX environments Attend and lead workshops / team meetings to gain complete understanding of customer system requirements and apply requirements to real world customizations for the Windchill enterprise solution Create detailed user documentation and technical training material to cover the engagement requirements and teach hands-on classes concerning the configuration of Pro/Engineer, SolidWorks and UGX using Work Group Managers to integrate the user requirements with the Windchill environment From March 2005 to June 2007 (2 years 4 months) Huntsville, Alabama AreaLab Automation Consultant @ Novasite Pharmaceuticals Design and implement lab automation for high throughput microfluidic systems used on the MoFlo, FACScan, FACSort, FACScaliber, and Coulter/Elite flow cytometers To further develop the ability to screen large chemical libraries against thousands of variants of the target's binding site in a high throughput setting From January 2000 to January 2002 (2 years 1 month) Senior Research Associate IV @ UC San Diego  Design and perform experiments to improve fluorescent proteins for cell biology via molecular evolution in mammalian cells and bacteria via somatic hypermutation Implement and design high throughput microfluidic sample handling through automation for molecular evolution, drug screening and end point assays Design lab automation for high throughput sample delivery used to study membrane transport, protein synthesis and drug screening From September 2001 to February 2005 (3 years 6 months) Greater San Diego AreaTechnical Architect / Enterprise Systems Lead @ Guardant Health • Establish and maintain software development standards and best practices using Agile Methodologies that include Daily StandUps, Weekly Updates and continuous engagement from Developers, Designers and SQA• Supply over 100 monthly reports to various departments using complex Data Analytics via Ruby, SQL and Tableau• Familiar with all aspects of SaaS via AWS platforms: Elasticbeanstalk, EC2, RDS, S3, Route 53, SQS, VPC, Redshift, etc.• Proficient in the use of Dell Boomi to maintain middleware data transfer between Oracle enterprise database to RDS, Salesforce and NetSuite• Maintain real time web analytics using New Relic, Google Analytics, Splunk, MySQL and Heap• Engineer AWS server back end and portal front end development using Pivotal Tracker, CircleCI, GitHub, RubyMine and AWS Management Tools • Manage the existing product portfolio and lead the ongoing development of enhancements to support increased value to customers.• Conduct market, competitive and customer research to identify needs and trends.• Define the product profile and other solution requirements including business case and strategic rationale• Work within cross functional teams to help drive timely and cost effective development of the products by gathering user and functional requirements, prioritize projects and actively maintaining business relationships• Lead software verification and validation efforts for CLIA/CAP certified lab• Technical management of production applications and servers including software installation, configuration, testing and release, version control, and change management. From September 2014 to May 2017 (2 years 9 months) Redwood City, CA