Resume and Work Experience
A PDF of my resume: link. (Last Updated July 2025) Or if you want a docx version: link.
Education
- Data Analytics and Visualization Boot Camp, University of Pennsylvania, 2024
- M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Drexel University, 2016
- B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, University of Delaware, 2014
Experience
- Staff Scientist: Proclinical Staffing // Incyte
- Supports internal and external antibody discovery campaigns by maintaining cell cultures and antibody compound registries for use across departments.
- Performing routine monoclonal antibody characterization/QC tasks including HPLC, CE-SDS, and dynamic light scattering.
- Utilize high-throughput liquid handling systems to generate normalized plates of antibody stocks for use in early screening efforts.
- Research Specialist C: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Helped to identify several drugs for further research in different virus treatments from a several tens-of-thousands drug library.
- Maintained cell lines, ran assays and performed data analysis and presentation while managing an accelerated weekly viral assay testing pipeline.
- Worked under Dr. Dave Schultz in the High Throughput Screening Core at the University of Pennsylvania running assays for virus and cancer drug research.
- Research Specialist B: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Developed and tested new protocols for self-driven experiments as well as adoption by other researchers in pressure myography and hydrogel-based cell culture assays.
- Interacted directly with collaborators of Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics(ITMAT) Bio-mechanics Core services, to organize orders for both existing services as well as newly developed services.
- Lead researcher for new service adaptation including: atomic force microscopy-based mechanical testing, cell-embedded 3D biodegradable hydrogels, cellular traction force microscopy, and pressure myography mechanical testing.
Skills
- Laboratory
- BSL2, aseptic technique, cell/tissue culture, tissue dissection, immunohistochemistry/immunofluorescence microscopy, assay development, atomic force microscopy, traction force microscopy, pressuremyography, 2D/3D hydrogel development and testing, laboratory organization/ordering, journal writing/review
- Data
- MS Office, Github, VBA for Excel, Python, Machine Learning, Big Data, Tableau, Javascript, SQLPostgres/Mongodb database management, Matlab, Minitab, Bruker Nanoscope Analysis, DMT Myoview, TeX, GraphPad Prism
- Collaboration
- Inter-Group academic research collaboration, detail-oriented reporting, data synthesis, interpretation and presentation, development and deployment of data-rich tools / methodologies, data analysis, motivation to learn new skills, willingness to take on new challenges, scientific curiosity