I'm an entrepreneur and scientist. In 1997 I co-founded the bioinformatics software company Geospiza and led the commercial development of laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and high throughput data analysis systems for all forms of DNA sequencing and microarray technologies. The company’s free Sanger electropherogram trace viewer, FinchTV, became a standard tool that is still widely used.
I joined Digital World Biology in 2013 to lead business development, provide business consulting, and support software and web development projects. Through Digital World Biology, I share industry expertise in a national network of community colleges that provide workforce education in biotechnology (InnvATEBIO.org) and manage Biotech-Careers.org, a highly visited website that links industry employeers with educators, students, and job seekers, and develop resources for teaching modern immunology concepts such as immuno-bioinformatics and antibody engineering.
As an entrepreneur mentor for the University of Washington’s CoMotion business incubator. I participate in startup workshops and help emerging biotechnology businesses to perform market assessments for technologies in genomics, synthetic biology, structural biology, drug development, and bioinformatics. I serve on advisory boards for Phase Genomics and Wayfinder Bioscience (business advisor) and was a science advisor for Stratos Genomics (acquired by Roche in 2020).