Portfolio

Here’s some of the stuff I’ve been involved in.

Commercial

Strateos fka Transcriptic

https://strateos.com

Over the course of 7.5 years I built the product management function at Strateos, I tried to bring a lot of the product management approach from the tech world to the life sciences where we worked across different audiences from chemists, synthetic biologists, robotics engineers and software developers.

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Dentally

Dentally I started working part-time at Dentally in January 2015. I’d known the founders Nick and James since the first Venture Catalyst Challenge at Imperial College. We were in the same cohort and I was always impressed with the productivity of these guys. Working part-time whilst writing my thesis I joined the management team of Dentally with a focus on devising growth strategies through business development and marketing.

Flow Microfluidics

I started Flow Microfluidics in 2013 to bridge the gap between clinical research and microfluidics fabrication. We provided fabrication services specifically tailored to researchers focused on vascular and urinary research. I evetually wrapped up Flow Microfluidics at the start of 2015, I’m really happy with the work that we did enabling researchers to get get new insights into clinically relevant phenomena. Unfortunately I couldn’t make the business model work as the over heads were exceptionally high for such a small customer base. I think with some pivotting and testing there is a business there but I couldn’t make it work alongside my PhD.

Research / Science

PhD thesis on biomineralization

• On the use of collagen type-I in the growth of hydroxyapatite on micro-fabricated biomimetic dentin Covering topics such as protein engineering, molecular cloning, microfabrication in semiconductors, micropatterning of proteins. I collaborated on projects involving nucleic acid aptamers as well as solid-state nanopores.
• Single molecule sensing with solid-state nanopores: novel materials, methods and applications This tutorial review in Chemical Society Reviews covers an introduction to the state of the art in solid-state nanopore research. The article has been cited over 500 times and received positive feedback for its writing style and illustrative figures.

Phase change

Back in 2017 I had an idea for a more fun, dynamic take on pharma industry news so I put together a pilot version of something I called Phase Change, I didn’t continue it but I still think there is a gap for this kind of thing.

Communities

• VitaDAO
• Imperial Create Lab I helped in the founding year of the Imperial Create Lab. A co-op between Imperial College students and Imperial Innovations. The create lab helps students turn their ideas into reality by providing resources, mentoring, education and ultimately the potential to receive money to pursue their ideas in a climatic demo day!
• IC Full Stack I founded this technology group for all students, staff and alumni of Imperial College interested in developing for the web. We hold monthly meetups where members show off what they have been working on and take the time to discuss web technologies with colleagues from all corners of the university over a beer.

Code

• Research Champion Uses RCUK grant application data to find, academics specialising in a certain field. Based on a python webserver and an Angular JS front end client.
• Oppozeit This hack won us first place at the Seedhack 2013 hackathon ran by Seed Camp. We used the BBC juicer API to try and take two points of view on the same news story and present them side by side exposing the user to the bias in the news report. Python backend with Angular JS client side.
• Marlowe This is an entirely javascript application that I am writing to manage submissions to research facilities ran as services. Primarily focused on stream lining the job submission and provision of results to users as well as notifying users of issues with equipment.
• Imperial Create Lab I also contributed a lot of code to the Create Lab website as well! It is written in Ruby on Rails.
• flickr IoT Photobooth Using a Raspberry Pi, a momentary switch, some Python and Ruby I put together a internet connected photobooth to be used at some of the Create Lab Events. When the user presses the button the Raspberry Pi takes a photo then uploads it to the Create Lab flickr account to be shown on monitors around the event space.