Director, Operations at biomodal (2026-01 – Present)
- Lead on a strategic transformation of laboratory and manufacturing infrastructure, translating long-term growth plans into phased operational delivery.
- Act as a central PMO/ program leadership function providing portfolio visibility and driving prioritisation and alignment across the organisation.
- Line manager for the Quality Assurance team including hiring, development and performance management.
- Established organisation-wide Health & Safety governance including cross-functional committee.
- Ownership of laboratory operations, including equipment management, servicing and maintenance, and operational systems.
- Prepared structured updates, reporting, and programme materials to support senior leadership discussions and decision-making.
Associate Director, Product Development Process Lead at biomodal (2023-10 – 2026-12)
- Built and deployed an ISO13485-compliant product development operating system, improving governance, visibility, and delivery consistency.
- Established portfolio-level oversight of product development pipeline, enabling and leadership alignment.
- Led strategic planning of product development programmes, aligning technical delivery with organisational priorities.
- Developed and embedded programme governance structures, improving cross-functional coordination and execution.
- Core team lead (c.30 people) for development of an epigenetic methylation library preparation product.
- Establishing best and most efficient practice for product development (Critical Parameter Management, DoEs, stability studies).
- Led strategic transformation of laboratory and manufacturing infrastructure aligned to scale-up requirements.
- Coordinated clinical collaborations, aligning technical, operational, and customer-facing activity.
Staff/Senior Staff Engineer/Scientist, Systems Integration at Illumina (2019 – 2023)
- Successfully lead a cross-site team (UK, US) of system integration engineers and scientists to deliver automated Illumina library preparation methods.
- Guided a cross-site team of system integration engineers and scientists from the UK, US, and Singapore, to deliver on-market improvements to the iSeq sequencing instrument.
- Successfully lead the UK Systems Integration Team producing the Illumina NextSeq 1k/2k.
- Part of the Illumina Strategic Automation Team, influencing and guiding the automation roadmap for Illumina.
- Co-Lead for a European staff engagement initiative.
- Acting Head of UK Systems Integration Team (22 people).
- UK Senior Leadership Team for Covid Response.
Senior/Staff Scientist, Reagent Development at Illumina (2014 – 2019)
- UK reagent team lead for the Illumina iSeq, developing and optimising SBS reagents for the illumina iSeq platform.
- Successfully led a cross-site department effort to author and publish a series of handbooks detailing best practices for reagent development.
- Lead a cross-site reagent team (UK, US) to successfully develop Illumina's first blue-green, two-channel sequencing chemistry for the NextSeq 1k/2k sequencing instrument.
- Line management of a team of UK-US employees.
Senior/Higher Scientific Officer at Animal and Plant Health Agency (2006 – 2014)
- Lead developer of the AMPlite platform, a point of care testing device for zoonotic diseases.
- Development and validation of qPCR and isothermal amplification assays for zoonotic diseases.
- Supervisor for a PhD student, developing rapid point of care diagnostic tests for bacterial pathogens for use in veterinary surgeries.
- Organising and delivering training courses for the UK Biological Engagement Program in Azerbaijan, a MOD initiative.
- Development and validation of Identibac nanoarrays to detect virulence factors and antibiotic resistance genes in bacteria, quality control of products, customer service, developing and delivering training courses.
- Guest lecturer at the University of Surrey in equine disease diagnostics.
- Direct line management of three staff.
