Resume

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Professional Experience

11/18-Present, Principal, The Kelly Group LLC.

12/18- Present, Adjunct Faculty, Advanced Academic Programs, Johns Hopkins University

10/09-10/18 Senior Vice President, Operations, SoBran, Inc. (www.SoBran-inc.com)

Burtonsville MD and Fairfax VA.

11/05-10/09 Vice President, Biomedical Services,

Assignments and Responsibilities: Provide executive leadership to three corporate divisions providing biomedical research support to government agencies, academic institutions and the biotechnology industry and chemical and biological warfare agent detection for government agencies. Responsible for expanding the depth and breadth of the firm's scientific and technical expertise in the fields of comparative medicine, molecular biology, genetics, pathology, and toxicology. Responsible for operations, strategic planning and business development including expansion into new business areas. Profit and loss responsibilities for the company with over 700 employees and combined annual revenues exceeding $52 million. 

Accomplishments: Lead effort to design, construct, commission and operate corporate laboratory complex at the Johns Hopkins Science and Technology Park, Baltimore MD. Successfully lead effort to expand corporate capabilities to include contract research focusing on preclinical drug discovery and toxicology services for pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Doubled the size of the Biomedical Services Division by implementing business development programs and operational improvements resulting in sustained growth each year since appointment. Successfully lead the effort to diversify SoBran’s customer base beyond government contracting to include scientific and technical support to academic and commercial clients. Lead effort to obtain initial ISO-9001: 2000 certification for the Biomedical Services Group and subsequent recertification to ISO-9001-2008 standard.

3/02- 11/05 Director of Environmental Research and Program Manager, SoBran, Inc., Dayton OH. Located at the Andrew W. Breidenbach Research Center, U.S. EPA, Cincinnati OH. 

Assignments and Responsibilities: Corporate Director: For environmental research and technical support contracts with federal agencies including: the U.S. EPA’s National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL), Cincinnati OH; the National Health Effects and Environmental Research Laboratory, Duluth MN; and the Large Lakes Research Station, Grosse Ile MI. Provide corporate policy and management direction to Program Managers collectively managing some 50 SoBran employees and an annual budget of $3.0 million. Provide program management for an on-site research contract with U.S. EPA NERL, directly supervising 30 professional staff in 6 work assignments at NERL-Cincinnati, and field monitoring programs across the Mid-Atlantic region. Technical areas include: analytical chemistry; environmental modeling, GIS and environmental statistics; macroinvertebrate and algal taxonomy; field monitoring for water monitoring programs in VA, NC, WV and OH; gene expression (cytochrome P450; metallothionein; vitellogenin) in aquatic organisms; aquatic toxicology; and molecular indicators of exposure to xenobiotic chemicals.

Additional Experience

1/01-12/01 Assistant Vice President, Technical Services, Integrated DNA Technologies Inc. Coralville IA (www.idtdna.com) 

6/95-12/00 President, Southwest Scientific Resources Inc. Albuquerque, NM 

9/86-6/95 Staff Scientist, Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute, Albuquerque NM

5/83-8/86 Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa.

Ancillary Activities:

2013-2018 Board of Director’s Tech Council of Maryland, and MD-Bio 

2015-2018 Chair, Board of Directors, Building STEPS Inc. Baltimore MD.

2009-2018 Member, President’s Advisory Council, Greater Baltimore Committee, Baltimore MD.

2009-2018 Member, Bioscience Subcommittee, Greater Baltimore Committee, Baltimore MD

2009- Present Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Greater Baltimore Council, Boy Scouts of America

1989-2000 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

1997-2000 Executive Board, New Mexico Biotechnology and Biomedical Association (www.nmbio.org) Secretary 2000

1991-1995 Associate Member, University of New Mexico Cancer Center, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1990-1995 Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1989-1991 Member, Molecular Biology of Carcinogenesis Advisory Panel, Office of Health and Environmental Research, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Washington D.C.

Education:

Ph.D. Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN 1983

B.S. Department of Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 1977

(Cum laude, Major – Biochemistry; Minor - Mathematics)

Certificates

• Basic Management Program, Robert O. Anderson School of Business, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque NM 1993
• Senior Management Program. Williams College of Business, Xavier University, Cincinnati OH. 2005.
• 2012 Graduate, Leadership Baltimore, Greater Baltimore Committee
• Toxicology 21: Scientific Applications, Johns Hopkins University on Coursera. 2019

Grant Support (Principal Investigator)

• High Throughput Gene Sequence Analysis of Biological Warfare      Agents. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Dept. of Defense,      DAAH01-99-C-R225, 8/15/99-2/14/00
• Molecular Basis of Radiation-Induced Lung Cancer. Office of Health      and Environmental Research, U.S. Dept. of Energy. DOE-AC04-76EV1013      RPIS-005028, 10/01/88-9/30/95
• VSG Gene Expression in Metacyclic Trypanosomes. NIH Post-Doctoral      Fellowship, AI06935, 7/1/83-6/30/86.

Publications (all prior to 1998)

Author or co-author of 14 peer reviewed publications, 4 book chapters, 16 Technical Reports (U.S. Dept. of Energy, and U.S. Dept. of Defense) and 27 abstracts.