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Engineer Manager

Location:

La Mesa, CA

Posted:

August 15, 2019

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SHANNON JOHNSON

**** ******* *****, **** ***, LA MESA, CA 91942 MOBILE: 612-***-**** EMAIL: ac93as@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

To contribute to a dynamic team of professionals interested in achieving business goals along with personal development and team work. My contribution of technical skills, industry skills and personal skills are well developed and versatile. I am willing to consider relocating for a permanent position if my skills are a good fit.

SKILLS

Automation • Drug Discovery • QMS • High Throughput Production • LIMS Systems • Programming • PCR • Validation and Implementation • Cell Culture • Genomics • ISO • Polymer Science • Manufacturing and Scale-Up • Life Science • Technology Transfer • GLP & GMP • Biochemistry • Instrumentation • SOP •

SKILLS (CONTINUED)

Internal Auditor • Supervisor • Pharmaceutical • Agricultural • Academia • DMPK • In-Vitro

EXPERIENCE

AUTOMATION ENGINEER • VAXDESIGN (YOH, LLC CONTRACTOR)• MAY 2018 – FEBRURARY 2019

Assisted with implementing multiple integrated Hamilton robotics, including integrating 3rd party devices (ELx405 plate washers, Inheco incubators, Cytomat ambient storage, Cytomat C10 and C2 incubators). Also familiar with Hamilton ODTC, HHS, Hamilton 2D barcode devices. Repurposed two Biomek FX’s into custom built sterile workstations. Developed 12 well and 24 well cell-base assays on the Biomek FX’s platforms with programming (Dendritic Cells (DC) cells, B cells, and T cells) for vaccine research to increase throughput from Scientists performing these assays manually. Experienced with automated ELISA assays on Agilent Bravo, Biomek FX and Hamilton platforms.

ADVANCED FIELD APPLICATIONS • BECKMAN COULTER • AUGUST 2016 – OCTOBER 2017

Provide automated laboratory solutions with Beckman Coulter liquid handling Automation including Biomek 4000, Biomek FX and Biomek NX liquid handlers. Program the Biomek Software 4.0 to provide automated solutions for Government, Universities, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Industries. Provide customer technical support for automated Immunoassay instruments and assays. Troubleshoot software, hardware, assay performance, QC and calibrations. Beckman Coulter instrumentation supported includes Access 2 and DxI Immunoassay systems. Technical support includes various laboratories for Government, Universities, Clinics and Hospitals.

AUTOMATION ENGINEER • MONSANTO • JANUARY 2011 – JULY 2016

Automated HT DNA workflows for PCR applications using multiple automated platforms (Beckman Coulter, Hamilton, Agilent, Tecan and Applied Biosystems). Experienced troubleshooting automation issues on multiple platforms to ensure production continued without delay or without repeating assays. Quality Management System (QMS) Quality Champion including Internal and External Auditor for ISO 9001. Performed QC Data analysis on multiple assays to ensure quality control of automated laboratory processes.

SCIENTIST • PFIZER • NOVEMBER 2000 – APRIL 2009

Supervisor of a multiple user in-vitro cell culture laboratory for drug discovery science in DMPK. Data QC of small drug molecules for a high-throughput drug screening laboratory. Operated custom-built cell culture laboratory using programming, aseptic techniques, SOP’s, GLP and safety procedures. Co-author of a publication in Drug Metabolism and Distribution, November 2006. New assay development, validation and implementation. LIMS super user. In-silico modeling and predictions.

EDUCATION

B.S MAJOR BIOLOGY, MINOR CHEMISTRY, BROAD FIELD SCIENCE CERTIFICATE • JUNE 1993 • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE

CERTIFICATE • 2004 • UNIVERISTY OF MICHIGAN ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

CALCULUS AND BIOCHEMISTRY • 1998 •CONTINUING EDUCATION INDIANA-PURDUE UNIVERSITY

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE OR LEADERSHIP

I take every opportunity to volunteer for benefiting the community. I have volunteered for many charitable organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Domestic Abuse Centers, Parks, Food Pantries, and United Way.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Porcine brain microvessel endothelial cells as an in vitro model to predict in vivo blood-brain barrier permeability. Zhang Y, Ye Y, Johnson K, Poe J, Johnson S, Bobrowski W, Garrido R, Madhu C. Drug Metab Dispos. 2006 Nov; 34(11):1935-43. Epub 2006 Aug 8.

“Automation of a high-throughput P-glycoprotein inhibition screen”. Shannon Johnson1, Shamsi Raeissi1, Mary Beth Dunklee1, Chad Stoner1, Dongyang He2, Chakrapani Koneru2, Kjell Johnson3, Fareena Mutlib1, Doug Burdette1, Jasminder Sahi1, and Narayanan Surendran1, 1Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics, and Metabolism; 2Development Sciences Informatics; 3Nonclinical Biostatistics, Pfizer Global Research & Development, Ann Arbor, MI.

“Strategy and implementation of harmonized HT caco-2 assay in AA PDM”. Shannon Johnson1, Kjell Johnson3, Doug Burdette1, Sascha Freiwald1, Laura Hayter1, Danielle Smith1, Nicholas Paschka1, Mary Beth Dunklee1, Dongyang He2, Howard Miller1, Janet Gagnon-Yerkie1, and Narayanan Surendran1, 1Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics, and Metabolism; 2Development Sciences Informatics; 3Nonclinical Biostatistics, Pfizer Global Research & Development, Ann Arbor, MI.

SHANNON JOHNSON

7780 PARKWAY DRIVE, UNIT 704, LA MESA, CA 91942 MOBILE: 612-***-**** EMAIL: ac93as@r.postjobfree.com

REFERENCES

Kristina Viglioturo

Beckman Coulter

Field Applications Manager – North and South America

Phone: 816-***-****

Email: ac93as@r.postjobfree.com

Joyce Robertson-Hoyt

Exact Sciences

Senior Project Manager

Phone: 608-***-****