Organic Chemistry Consultant: Organic Synthesis, Patent Searching, Reverse Engineering and Informatics Support

Technical Consultant #1701

Experience in the design, synthesis, and analysis of organic compounds.
Experience with synthesis of nucleosides, nucleotides, lipids, detergents and other molecules.
Experience with transfection lipids, dye-labeled nucleotides and PCR detergent projects.
Patent and literature searches and forming competitive strategies.
A registered Patent Agent performing scientific advisement on chemistry patent issues.
Reverse engineering of competitor products.
Industry experience working with patent attorneys and agents on intellectual property issues.
Informatics and database software design and support with SQL and PL/SQL programming.

Independent Consultant, 2011 - Present

Undisclosed Company, Manufacturing Scientist, 2011 - Present

Life Technologies, Inc., Staff Scientist, 2002 - 2010

Proposed, synthesized and formulated new organic small molecules for different projects.
Attended patent review meetings and supported the IP Legal team on all projects with reviews and searches of patents and other literature and with reverse engineering work.
Proposed strategies for projects based on information gained from these activities.
Proposed and initiated a detergent project to work around competitors existing IP.
Problem solving and chemistry work was a key factor in providing solutions for manufacturing when issues occurred with existing products.
Synthesized the key, novel lipid used in Life Technologies new RNAi Max™ product.
Completed the synthesis of some dye-labeled nucleotides for a project.
Successful scale up and launch of protein solubilizer detergent products.
Member of the company's Informatics and IP strategy teams.

Accelrys, San Diego, California, Software Support Scientist, 2001 - 2002

Travel to customer sites to install MedChem Explorer software packages and provide customer support.
Installation of software including Oracle databases, and interfacing these databases with scientific software across company networks.
Handled daily calls and emails from scientists to support cheminformatics products.
Installation included third party products such as MDL ISIS and Oracle on IRIX, Linux and Windows 2000 server platform.

GERS Retail Systems, San Diego, California, Software Developer, 1999 - 2001

Development of Workflow standalone applications using Oracle SQL and PL/SQL as the program language.
Administration of Windows NT servers that supported Oracle Application Server and Oracle Workflow software, as well as DBA tasks.

San Diego Super Computer Center, La Jolla, California, Oracle DBA/Developer Intern, 1999 - 1999

Application programming in SQL and PL/SQL as and Oracle database administration tasks.

Metabasis Therapeutics, San Diego, California, Research Associate, 1995 - 1999

Designed and synthesized novel organic compounds for testing as potential drugs, and entering and reviewing data in our ISIS database.
Compounds were nucleosides and involved sugar and heterocyclic chemistry.
Synthesized and assessed the pharmacological profile of 80 new compounds.

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