Personal Summary

Perceptive, Creative, Independent

Highly and self motivated bilingual individual who thrives in fast paced environments, enjoys complex problems and is a problem solver by nature. An individual who is dedicated to his work, with progressive, diverse experience in the biotech, pharma, analytical, and software industures. Main work experiences include biotherapeutic protein production, purification, characterization, molecular biology, analytical chemistry, and full stack web development. Respected as a motivational, influential, and detail-oriented leader and collaborator who guides team members in achieving on-time, budget-conscious project completion while always striving to exceed expectations. Builds and maintains productive professional relationships with colleagues and clients, driving business objectives through a people-focused approach.

Academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior and a Minor in Computer Science from the University of California – Davis. Out-of-the-box thinker committed to implementing continuous process improvements to enable growth.

I look forward to meeting you; You can reach me at julian.edward.reyes@gmail.com or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-reyes-1b2727190/

Experience

Protein Purification Scientist at Pfizer

Support for the BioMedicine Design Biotherapeutics Discovery Group responsible for discovering biotherapeutic lead drug candidates for Pfizer in La Jolla. Performed protein purification via FPLC, batch binding, and magnetic beads and performed characterization via a wide range of analyses to to hand off to downstream biologists to perfrom further experiments. Support for expression team such as molecular cloning, transient cell transfection, cell transformation, DNA plasmid preparation, and cell harvesting. Performed method development for HPLC and FPLC instruments as well as routine QC analyses on finalized purified protein constructs.

San Diego, November 2021 - Present

Protein Purification Scientist at Pfizer

Support for the BioMedicine Design Biotherapeutics Discovery Group responsible for discovering biotherapeutic lead drug candidates for Pfizer in La Jolla. Performed protein purification via FPLC, batch binding, and magnetic beads and performed characterization via a wide range of analyses to to hand off to downstream biologists to perfrom further experiments. Support for expression team such as molecular cloning, transient cell transfection, cell transformation, DNA plasmid preparation, and cell harvesting. Performed method development for HPLC and FPLC instruments as well as routine QC analyses on finalized purified protein constructs.

SSan Diego, November 2021 - Present

Clinical Laboratory Technician at Helix

Worked as a clinical lab technician for Helix biotech performing automated RNA extraction and PCR-based genetic testing.

San Diego, August 2021 - November 2021

Clinical Laboratory Technician at Helix

Worked as a clinical lab technician for Helix biotech performing automated RNA extraction and PCR-based genetic testing.

San Diego, August 2021 - November 2021

Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Technician/Microbiology Analyst

Setup, prepared, troubleshot, and ran Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy, Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy, HPLC, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, and PCR analytical chemistry equipment and methods to analyze heavy metals, mycotoxins, microbes, pesticides, and solvents of agriculture-based consumer products in accordance with state regulations.

San Diego, February 2021 - August 2021

Analytical Chemistry Laboratory Technician/Microbiology Analyst

Setup, prepared, troubleshot, and ran Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy, Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy, HPLC, Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy, and PCR analytical chemistry equipment and methods to analyze heavy metals, mycotoxins, microbes, pesticides, and solvents of agriculture-based consumer products in accordance with state regulations.

San Diego, February 2021 - August 2021

Full Stack Web Developer at Unearth Campaigns

Full stack web engineer for Unearth Campaigns based out of Downtown Sacramento, helping on mostly backend JavaScript and PHP and client side HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

Sacramento, August 2019 - June 2020

Full Stack Web Developer at Unearth Campaigns

Full stack web engineer for Unearth Campaigns based out of Downtown Sacramento, helping on mostly backend JavaScript and PHP and client side HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.

Sacramento, August 2019 - June 2020

Selected Highlights

Featured Skills of Interest

Protein Purification, Characterization

Support for Purification Group

Affinity chromatography, analytical and preparative size exclusion chromatography, magnetic bead purification, bioconjugation, FPLC, HPLC, Mass Spec, SEC-MALS, SDS-PAGE

Molecular Biology

Support for Expression Group

Molecular cloning, Gibson assembly, cell transfection (CHO, Expi293), cell transformation, DNA plasmid prep, PCR, qPCR, DNA gel purification, DNA sequence verification, gel electrophoresis

Analytical Chemistry

Analytical Assays

Analytical analyses of compounds with instruments inlcuding Mass Spec, HPLC, GCMS, LCMS, Atomic Abosorption Spectroscopy, qPCR

Full Stack Web Developer

HTML5, Python, PHP, Databases

As an experienced full stack web developer I am dedicated to helping make your creative ideas come to life. Experienced in backend JavaScript as well as API request and response handling for data management.

Education

Highschool, University

Westview - San Diego, CA

UC Davis - Davis, CA

Thank You for Visiting!

I hope we can collaborate soon on future projects