Leadership role in young biotech company, responsible for building and leading multiple operational functions:

• Property management and facility maintenance

• Office management and workplace services

• Physical security and infrastructure reliability

• Biolab procurement, material logistics, and support operations

• Environment, Health and Safety (EH&S)

Role included strategic operational planning, budgeting & financial oversight, and staff development & mentoring.

Reporting directly to COO, with a $17M annual department operating budget (not including CAPEX project funding or staff compensation) and four (4) direct-report managers.

Key achievements:

• Transformed Facilities operations by building a multi-department organization providing best-in-class stakeholder support services, while growing staff engagement by 25% and improving corporate efficiency 200%.

• Delivered $2.5M, 8,000 sq-ft Qualified (GMP) Materials Warehouse for clinical production raw materials (2025).

• Implemented Blue Mountain BMRAM CMMS maintenance and metrology program to track asset lifecycle and maintain over 3,000 facility, infrastructure, and equipment assets (2024).

• Delivered $20M, 15,000 sq-ft GxP manufacturing and R&D lab facility on time and under-budget (2023).

• Manage >100,000 sq-ft of property across three buildings, consisting of offices, BSL1 & BSL2 biolabs, ISO6-ISO8 clean-rooms, and validated GMP clinical manufacturing.

• No EPA CUPA findings, OSHA reportable injuries, or workplace Covid transmissions during 4-year tenure.

Senior management responsible for personnel and facility safety engineering within government research campus operated by Stanford University for the Department of Energy (DoE). Role responsible for life-cycle accountability of critical laboratory safety instrumentation and controls, executed via small-to-medium industrial projects (1M to $30M).

Responsibilities:

• Lead department operations and strategic planning

• Set operational goals and priorities and establish KPI’s

• Define department policies and processes

• Produce department and project budgets

• Manage office and production facilities

• Mentor career staff

• Oversee complex facility engineering and construction projects

• Perform project scheduling and procurement

• Maintain reliability and quality assurance of facility systems

• Ensure laboratory operational effectiveness

Key Achievements:

• Turned-around struggling engineering department, rebuilding team from 2 staff back up to 12 full-time staff, consisting of engineers, technical specialists, project managers and operational coordinators.

• Recovered $20M facility instrumentation project from 2-year backlog, to deliver multiple concurrent equipment installations on-time across laboratory campus.

• Project manager and engineering lead for design, construction, and commissioning of instrumentation for next-generation accelerator project, consisting of 20 separate facility construction projects over 7 years with a combined value of $65M.

Advise clients on infrastructure improvements to streamline facility operations and reduce business risk.

Consultant (Self-employed.)

Services:

• Building infrastructure systems commissioning for critical facilities.

• Building automation systems design, programming, and maintenance.

• Small construction projects planning and scheduling.

• Contractor supervision, project oversight, and contracts compliance.

• LEED certification management and compliance

• Maintenance risk mitigation and business contingency planning.

• Business process auditing and process improvement.

Lead automation and instrumentation controls projects for pharmaceutical manufacturing, equipment engineering, project management, and production support.

Responsibilities:

• Pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment engineering, project management, and production support.

• Facility infrastructure systems operation, engineering, and maintenance.

• Building automation, process utilities, and energy management operations and maintenance.

• Automation validation and quality assurance; Manufacturing process development.

• FDA regulatory compliance.

• Exceptions and CAPA investigations and process auditing.

Engineering project management and controls engineering for industrial, manufacturing, and capital equipment.

Design Accomplishments:

• Exhaust scrubber for radiological medical waste incinerator

• Automatic injection-molding machine part handler with integrated vision inspection

• Multi-axis robotic machining center

• Semi-automatic air-bag folding machine

• Medical diagnostic test-kit assembly and inspection line