Career

Experience

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

1. Senior Director & Head of Innovation and New Product Planning

   Jan 2024 – Present

   Gilead Sciences · Cambridge, MA

   • Built, championed, and evolved Gilead's 10-year drug-delivery strategy roadmap across the organization's key therapeutic areas in virology, inflammation, and oncology.
   • Led all innovation activities for devices, packaging, and process development — landscape evaluation, search & evaluate, technical feasibility, market & user research, partnership development, business cases, and technology transfer to device engineering.
   • Established new drug-delivery platform capabilities in prefilled syringes, autoinjectors, and large-volume subcutaneous delivery in service of Gilead's portfolio and pipeline parenteral assets.

2. Vice President, Biomedical Product Development

   May 2022 – Sep 2023

   LiquiGlide, Inc. · Cambridge, MA

   • Developed the strategic roadmap for high-value technology applications and business-development focal points; led market research and brand development, and established and managed new partnerships.
   • Led the product-development team to bring the company's first biomedical products from concept to market in under 18 months — across cell washing/isolation technologies and ostomy applications.
   • Led a comprehensive quality-management-system overhaul, including ISO 13485 design controls and Design for Six Sigma practices throughout concept and product development.

3. Senior Director, Engineering Innovation

   Aug 2019 – Apr 2022

   Eli Lilly and Company · Cambridge, MA

   • Led a highly cross-functional automated-insulin-delivery program — a team of 70+ contributors spanning drug discovery, formulation, controlled release, model-predictive-control closed-loop algorithms, device innovation, immunology research, and preclinical (swine) and human clinical studies; owned scope, asset alignment, timelines, budget ($MM), and all technical activities.
   • Drove early-stage innovation in novel delivery modalities for genetic medicines, including RNA therapeutics for subcutaneous administration and direct-to-brain delivery.
   • Developed enterprise strategy to launch a digital-health initiative across multiple disease states — wearable, environmental, and app-based monitoring with personalized patient solutions in migraine, IBD, oncology, and diabetes.

4. Chief Engineer

   Dec 2015 – Aug 2019

   Eli Lilly and Company · Cambridge, MA

5. Senior Staff Engineer

   2015 – 2015

   Becton, Dickinson and Company · North Andover, MA

   • Global leadership of a task force to improve predictability and time to market in product development.

6. Staff Engineer

   2010 – 2014

   Becton, Dickinson and Company · Franklin Lakes, NJ

   • Technical design, design verification, transfer-to-manufacturing, and preclinical/clinical lead for the BD FlowSmart™ — BD's first insulin infusion set for people with diabetes. Kicked off a strategic growth initiative and completed 30% faster than comparable company efforts.
   • Supervised 7 engineering contractors.

7. Scientific Manager

   2007 – 2010

   DexCom, Inc. · San Diego, CA

   • Designed novel analyte-transport and exclusion membranes for the DexCom transcutaneous continuous glucose sensor and an intravenous sensor for hospital use; planned biocompatibility, shelf-life, shipping, and design-verification testing, bringing products from concept to launch in under 2 years.
   • Supervised 4 engineers and junior scientists.

8. Senior Research Associate

   2005 – 2007

   DexCom, Inc. · San Diego, CA

9. Senior Engineer, DePuy Mitek

   2004 – 2004

   Johnson & Johnson · Norwood, MA

   • Early-stage innovation in orthopaedic sports-medicine applications — novel suture-anchor materials, bone augmentation, and pain management; technology scouting and partnership development.