Alerting Solutions, Inc.
Strategic Planning

  • Developed tsunami and other coastal hazards (storm surge) warning protocols and standard operating procedures for CDERA (Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency) Participating States (PS) Tsunami and other Coastal Hazards Warning System (TCHWS) Project; developed model for Caribbean Region; facilitated adaptation of model in Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, and Jamaica; conducted regional & national workshops for disaster & emergency response agencies (project funded by USAID, CDERA, and CDERA PS)


Amyris BioSciences
Client Representation

  • Oversaw design and construction of new laboratory/fermentation facility
  • Review and recommendations for planned bio-fuels pilot plant design


ARYx Therapeutics
Onsite Facilities Management

  • Oversight and guidance for design and construction of new lab and administrative facilities in Fremont, CA
  • Maintained facility use policies and building systems (plumbing, specialized water, HVAC, Gases); managed service vendors (contract negotiation, purchase orders, services oversight)


Bayer
Occupancy Planning

  • Lab planning/programming


Berlex
Facilities Assessment


BioHatch - Life Sciences Incubator
Operations Planning

  • Analyzed start-up company business support requirements; developed programs and initiated business services for tenant companies; developed and initiated business service alliance partnerships; developed tenant lease agreements; implemented tenant intake process and business service delivery


BrighTex BioPhotonics
Operations Planning and Project Management


Community Awareness & Emergency Response
Operations Planning and Project Management

  • Raised funds; developed budget; created and implemented operating procedures; initiated business services; established seven different work groups staffed from among industrial business, regulatory agency, emergency response agencies, and the public; developed largest, most technologically sophisticated community warning system in the world; negotiated industrial community endorsement of project design and cost and secured 100 % voluntary funding of $5 million project; negotiated the design/build contracts; recruited and directed contractors and consultants; built consensus among competing constituency groups; managed development of a national award-winning community education campaign about shelter-in-place


Contra Costa Bioscience Incubator (Contra Costa Economic Development Agency)
Client Representation

City of South San Francisco
Feasibility Assessment

  • Preliminary Feasibility Study for Innovation Center


Chiron
Facilities Assessment and Client Representation


Create Technology Village
Operations Planning and Business Development


Genentech
Strategic Planning and Onsite Services

  • Conducted adjacency planning for lab-based groups; planned and/or supported the development of Office, Lab, Manufacturing and Warehouse space strategies including supply and demand analysis, options development and recommendations to senior leadership; developed space planning tools and process; designed, implemented and maintained enhancements to the existing Integrated Workplace Management System (commonly referred to as Computer-Aided Facilities Management or CAFM); conducted facility assessments and utilization studies; lead/supported the development of lab and office planning metrics; represented Strategic Facilities Planning on the Capital Planning Extended Team; provided capital plan recommendations to senior management; provided organizational design input for space planning functions; and acted as interim senior staff for Lab Planning and Space Management
  • Support for annual property tax determination with a focus on optimization of property values


Gilead Sciences
Client Representation and Planning Support

  • Representation and oversight for EIR development and approval process
  • Support for corporate administrative design guideline development
  • Provide departmental support for planning and engineering issues/needs, including staffing


Golden Gate University
Space Planning and Move Management

Itero Biopharmaceuticals
Facility Assessment

  • Provided facility review and recommendations for proposed GMP contract facility

    • Jazz Pharmaceuticals
    Occupancy Planning

  • Designed regulated substances secured storage facility


Johnson & Johnson (Scios)
Owner Representation & Occupancy Planning

  • Planning and design oversight for for new Fremont, CA facilities
  • Design oversight for proposed pilot plant facility


Kalobios
Client Representation

  • Advised on specialized construction project to renovate older facility for new use


Life Technologies, Inc. (Applied BioSciences)
Client Representation & Strategic Planning

  • Supported high level strategic planning for 2 sites


MDS Sciex US
Move Management

  • Relocated operating company from one county to another; developed closure plan; secured regulatory approval; implemented and managed regulatory closure; developed new county HMBP; wrote IIPP; developed training manuals


MedImmune (Gensler)
Strategic Planning

  • Engaged by MedImmune and Gensler to support development of the West Coast facilities strategy as part of a cross-functional team: produced needs assessment and data gathering; developed supply and demand model input for office and lab spaces, including data analysis; assisted with office and lab space planning targets applied to future facilities planning metrics; supported development of facilities growth options and strategy recommendations to senior management, including capital funding requests and business case


Novartis (Chiron)
Facilities Assessment and Client Representation

  • Review, assessment and report for risk assessment of GMP facility


Onyx Pharmaceuticals
Disposition/Closure

  • Developed closure plan; secured regulatory agency approval; implemented and managed regulatory closure


Oscient
Client Representation & Strategic Planning

  • Maintained facility systems and operations in partially occupied building


Passport Capital
Space Planning

  • Designed interior renovation options to increase overall capacity and improve internal flow and operational adjacency


Portola Pharmaceuticals
Occupancy & Strategic Planning

  • Strategic Growth Planning for R&D Other?


San Jose BioCenter - San Jose State University Foundation
Operations Planning


UCMBEST (Sares Regis of Northern California Commercial Development)
Operations Planning and Business Development


Signature BioSciences
Disposition/Closure

  • Developed closure plan; secured regulatory agency approval (first of its kind in SF County); implemented and managed regulatory closure


Simeon Development
Facilities Assessment and Client Representation


Sunesis Pharmaceuticals
Occupancy Planning, Disposition/Closure and Move Management


UC Davis
Strategic Planning

  • Developed feasibility study for Science & Technology Center (including operations budget)