Scientific Sales/researcher

8/2008 - Present

Individual Contributor

• Responsible for improvement of sales in remote accounts, new business development as well as covering open territories within the Northeast region. Constant propsecting for new sales/accounts via phone/email on daily basis. Have exceeded target goals each quarter by an average of 115% and for 2008 at 105% to plan which merits president’s award.

5/2007 - 6/2008

Unilever

Individual Contributor

• Molecular and cellular biology, HPLC, FSA, and other supporting functions are employed for the anti-aging program. The specific function is to discover novel approaches to improve skin cell elasticity when it comes to the aging process in humans.

11/2005 - 4/2007

454 Life Sciences

Individual Contributor

• Train and provide technical support to new customers/personnel on a state of the art genomic sequencing system in the US and rest of the world. This includes management of 2-3 others, use of various lab techniques, and individual customer relationship building through interactive training and technical support issues. Review weekly and monthly reports from training/technical staff as well as present all related technical related issues to upper management involving 454-picoliter sequencer. Provide technical support to 454 international partner (Roche diagnostics) and new customers as part of our pre and post-sales support of the equipment.

8/2003 - 10/2005

PerkinElmer

Individual Contributor

• Provide technical support to North American and International customers via telephone and email. Trained in instrumentation, consumable, reagent, and radioactive products to assist customers with problems that arise in these areas. Also have trained various staff members on equipment and kits supplied by the company. After one year, I moved to reagent sales in the CT/MA region of over 1000 various life science products servicing many pharmaceutical, biotech, and local medical institutions and colleges with PerkinElmer products. Have been involved with new business development for the CT/MA area to establish new accounts and increase sales for given territory. The territory (CT and MA) assigned had exceeded sales goals at plan each quarter (average 106%) after previous quarters had not achieved sales plan in previous year . The yearly sales quota was at 107% to plan for the year.

6/2002 - 7/2003

Metlife Financial

Individual Contributor

• Licensed in Connecticut and Massachusetts to sell and solicit multiple lines of insurance and financial products to individuals and businesses. Strong communication and telephone skills for prospecting new clients.

5/1991 - 3/2002

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Individual Contributor

• Responsible for cloning, sequencing, manipulating, and expressing known and orphan G-protein coupled receptors (Serotonin, NK-2) from genomic and/or cDNA sources. Other responsibilities include development of multiple binding and functional assays for each G-protein coupled receptor expressed such as radioligand membrane, SPA, GTP gamma S, and whole cell binding assays using iodinated, sulfurated, and tritiated radiolabels.  Assay development at the preclinical level was used for adaptation to HTS equipment to screen compounds of interest through assays at the minute level.  Functional assays include cyclic AMP and Inositol Phosphates Accumulation (PI turnover) assays, FLIPR assays which employs the use of robotics and fluorescence to detect Calcium and Thallium into and out of cells.

2007

Master Degree

Grand Canyon University

• Finance

1986

Bachelor Degree

Fordham University

• Biology