WORK EXPERIENCE: **Scientist-Process Development at Amgen (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AMGN; Biotechnology industry) : August 2006 – Present Fields: Downstream processing, chromatography, tangential flow filtration, viral filtration **Patent Examiner- Biotechnology at United States Patent & Trademark Office (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry): June 2004 – July 2006 Fields: Compositions of matter- Recombinant Enzymes/Proteins, Recombinant nucleic acids, and Crystals of biomolecules. Methods of use- method of treatment using a biologic, methods of screening, computational methods, X-ray crystallographic methods. EDUCATION: ** The Johns Hopkins University M.S., Regulatory Affairs of Biologics, Drugs and Medical Devices Expected in 2010 **Yale University Ph.D., Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, 1997 – 2004 Fields: Biochemistry and Biophysics of Protein-nucleic acids interactions and RNA catalysis. Specifically, X-ray structural analysis of ribozymes and the mechanism (i.e., kinetics and dynamics) of RNA helicases. **University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez B.S., Chemistry 1993-1997 Fields: Spectroscopic studies (i.e., Raman) of protein-nucleic acid interactions.