Career

Experience

From employee #35 to employee #40,000 — bringing products from concept through commercialization across pharma, biotech, and medical devices.

  1. Sr. Director, New Product Planning & Drug Delivery Innovation

    Jan 2024 – Present

    Gilead Sciences · Cambridge, MA

    • Governing Board Member, Subcutaneous Drug Development & Delivery Consortium (Nov 2024–Present).

  2. Vice President of Product Development, Biomedical

    May 2022 – Jan 2024

    LiquiGlide · Cambridge, MA

    • Developed the strategic roadmap for high-value technology applications and business-development focal points.
    • Established and managed new partnerships, driving revenue generation and a sightline to commercialization in new biomedical applications.
    • Led clinical strategy, planning, and protocol development; co-led brand development and market research.
    • Led implementation of design controls and a quality-management-system overhaul for the biomedical business.
    • Cross-functional leader bringing the company's first biomedical products from concept to market in under 18 months.

  3. Adjunct Professor

    Sep 2021 – Aug 2022

    Suffolk University — Sawyer Business School · Boston, MA

  4. Senior Director, Engineering — Delivery Devices & Connected Solutions Innovation

    Aug 2019 – Apr 2022

    Eli Lilly and Company · Cambridge, MA

    • Enterprise strategy to launch a digital-health initiative across multiple disease states — wearable, environmental, and app-based monitoring with personalized patient solutions.
    • Led prospective algorithms for real-time patient monitoring and automated drug-titration optimization using model predictive control.
    • Led a high-profile advanced automated-insulin-delivery program: novel materials for sustained/controlled release, CFD modeling, IVIVC, and prototyping through a Phase 1 feasibility study.
    • Early-stage innovation in novel delivery modalities for genetic medicines, including RNA therapeutics.
    • Led a team of 70+ geographically diverse contributors; managed scope, asset alignment, timelines, and budget.

  5. Chief Engineer — Delivery Devices & Connected Solutions Innovation

    Dec 2015 – Aug 2019

    Eli Lilly and Company · Cambridge, MA

  6. Senior Staff Engineer, Advanced Diabetes Care

    Feb 2015 – Dec 2015

    BD · North Andover, MA

    • Global leadership of a task force to improve product-development predictability and reduce time to market.
    • Development of a novel insulin patch pump; R&D lead for clinical study planning and execution.

  7. Staff Engineer, Diabetes Care

    Apr 2010 – Jan 2015

    BD · Franklin Lakes, NJ

    • Led development of BD FlowSmart™, BD's first insulin infusion set — septum, catheter, and extension-set tubing.
    • R&D lead on clinical/preclinical studies, biocompatibility (ISO 10993), test-method validation, and design verification.
    • Winner of the 2012 Wesley J. Howe Award, the 2014 OSMT Award, and the 2014 & 2011 SARA Awards.

  8. Consultant, Membrane Technologies

    Feb 2010 – Apr 2010

    Glumetrics, Inc. · Irvine, CA

    • Consulted on membrane technologies and in-vivo troubleshooting for an intravenous continuous glucose sensor for in-hospital use.

  9. Scientific Manager, Research and Development

    2007 – 2010

    DexCom · San Diego, CA

    • Designed novel membranes for an intravenous continuous glucose sensor — controlling analyte transport and resisting the foreign-body response.
    • Critical contributor bringing the product from concept to launch in under 2 years.
    • Awarded the Edwards Lifesciences e3 Award (2009). Supervised 2 engineers through development and verification.

  10. Senior Research Associate

    Jan 2005 – Apr 2007

    DexCom · San Diego, CA

    • Developed cell scaffolding and amphiphilic membrane technologies for transcutaneous and fully implantable continuous glucose sensors.

  11. Senior Engineer, DePuy Mitek

    Jan 2004 – Dec 2004

    Johnson & Johnson · Norwood, MA

    • Led feasibility investigations for orthopaedic sports-medicine applications — novel suture-anchor materials, bone augmentation, and pain management.