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Michael J. Piette
Michael is an excellent public speaker, enjoys people and has a strong technical background. His core capability is laboratory automation. Work experiences have drawn out various facets of the core capability, including: Ø
Capital equipment &
consumable sales Ø
Entrepreneurship Ø
Product development Ø
Customer support
Career History: University
of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, Dept. of Endocrinology Associate
Research Specialist July 2001 to Present §
Earned his
MBA in marketing while working here. GPA
3.9/4.0. §
High-throughput
genotyping of mice using laboratory automation of PCR. §
Trains
technicians on laboratory automation techniques §
Leaving to
capitalize on people skills Quinogen
LLC (Madison, WI) Manager, Nucleic Acid Products 1996 to
August 2001 Product manager for high-throughput automation.
The premiere application was automated bacterial plasmid purification. §
Sold capital
equipment and consumables to pharmaceutical and academic research organizations.
Sales calls included cold calls and visits to qualified customers.
Closed sales with laboratory managent §
During the
product development phase, managed a multifunctional team including two
engineers, a scientist and a graphic artist Gilson,
Inc. (Middleton, WI) Automation
Specialist October
1997 Technical representative for the Gilson line of
liquid handlers and chromatography equipment. Responsibilities included: §
Inside
sales: qualified, educated, and followed up with potential customers §
Trained
sales staff, distributors and service personnel §
Wrote copy
for marketing brochures §
Quickly
troubleshot technical issues regarding product mechanics, electronics, software,
and chemistry §
Installed
products at key accounts §
Created
applications for instruments Presentations
and Posters: “Optimization of Automated Solid Phase Extraction
Methods.” Urban-Piette, Michael
and Paul Bouis. Podium presentation
at Pittsburgh Conference 1999, Orlando, Florida “Automated SPE of Tricyclic Antidepressants”.
Urban-Piette, Michael, Gary Lensmeyer and Lynn Stroede.
From poster session 200 “Sample Handling/Automation/Polymers and
Plastics”. Pittsburgh Conference 1999, Orlando, Florida
Northwestern
University Medical School, Lurie Cancer Center (Chicago, IL) Laboratory Technician:
Lurie Cancer Center, Dr. V. C. Jordan September 1995 to September 1997 §
Co-authored
several papers and a book, a list of which is available upon request §
Analyzed
clinical samples for the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen, using High Pressure
Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
Abbott
Laboratories (Abbott Park, IL) Validation Technician:
ADD, D-9B2 September 1994 §
Tested
communication between blood diagnostic instruments §
Methods of
designing products were ISO 9000-certified and the final product was approved by
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Education:
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MBA,
Marketing emphasis. University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater, completed August 2002.
GPA 3.9/4.0 §
Molecular
biology and genetics coursework at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
GPA, 3.5/4.0 §
Bachelor of
Science, Chemistry. Biochemistry
emphasis. Wheaton
College, Wheaton
Illinois. August 1994. GPA, 3.2/4.0 §
“Installing,
networking and troubleshooting Microsoft NT” course, May 2000 §
Entrepreneurial
Certificate, UW-Madison School of Business, 2000 Professional
Memberships and Other Personal Information: §
Member of
the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society (ISA) §
Member of
American Chemical Society § Plays classical and jazz piano § Reads and speaks German
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