People

I am a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)® with more than a decade of technical and project management experience, leading multifunctional, global teams. With beginnings as a biochemist, I have conducted research in biochemistry, medicinal chemistry, organic chemistry, aerosol science, microbiology and surface chemistry. I have served as a subject matter expert in biological and chemical sensor development and testing, and more recently specialized in the development of Ion Mobility Spectrometry (IMS)-based narcotics and explosives trace detection technology. I also have experience leading policy, process and protocol development in safety, lab practice, manufacturing, quality control and regulatory compliance.

I earned my doctorate in chemistry from the University of Akron, was a cancer immunology fellow at the Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute and also managed to pick up a degree in Business Administration from Walsh University along the way. I have more than 25 years of experience within fields of specialization including signal transduction pathways, apoptosis, cobalamin chemistry, molecular biology and the biochemistry of nitric oxide. I have received over $5M in grant support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and various other foundations for research pertaining to the synthesis and testing of nitric oxide-donor compounds. My work has resulted in three United States Patents and over twenty-five foreign patents. I have authored more than 100 abstracts and manuscripts, and currently serve as an academic editor for the scientific journal PLoS ONE.