Barney "Ben" Woodard, Director, Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility (BSF)

PROFILE

• Experienced laboratory manager with over eight years of fermentation experience.
• Bachelors of Science degree in biology from the University of Maryland.
• cGMP certification through Bio Science Contract Corporation.
• Able to serve as a participant, facilitator or leader of both large and small groups.
• Proven communication, organizational, management and problem solving skills.

EXPERIENCE

• Project manager for over forty-five projects annually with an annual budget of over $200,000.

  Supervision

  • Responsible for laboratory and project budgets, than included fundraising and financial
    planning.
  • Hired, managed and trained technicians, postdoctoral assistants and graduate students.
  • Coordinate bioprocessing projects for local and national research companies.
  • Evaluated and implemented chances in biotechnology process doubling revenues in
    fermentation.
  • Augment funds for new equipment, laboratory expansions, renovations and
    improvements.
  • Oversee financial aspects of company

  Administration

  • Administer client interaction to meet specific fermentation and purification needs.
  • Coordinated a plan to renovate existing laboratory to comply with cGLP
  • Maintain a current knowledge of existing laws and regulations pertinent to biotechnology field.
  • Design and implementation of protocols and SOP's
  • Creation of undergraduate laboratory for biotechnology for University of Maryland.
  • Review and recommend proposals for the Maryland Industrial Partnerships awards.
  • Maintain working inventory of laboratory consumables.
  • Founded company to produce and sell live yeast cultures for microbrewery
    applications.

Technical

• Operate pilot scale fermentors of 500L, 250L, 150L, 40L, 20L, 14L, 5L
• Responsible for facilities maintenance, purchasing and equipment installation.
• Product purification through column chromatography, HPLC, ultrafiltration, continuous centrifuge, tangential flow filtration and western blot.
• Installation of 250L Abec fermentor and creation of SOP for proper usage.
• Department of Chemical Engineering Safety Officer
• Isolation and sterile maintenance of over 25 strains of S. cervisea

Communication

• Complement faculty researchers with industrial clients.
• Assist teaching chemical engineering laboratory, biological process engineering and biochemical engineering laboratory undergraduate classes.
• Coordinate company expansion into biotechnology with addition of several new clients
• Report directly to the director and associate dean the monthly status of the financial conditions of the facility.

WORK HISTORY

• Manager, University of Maryland, Bioprocess Scale-Up Facility (BSF): 1998- Present
• Faculty Research Assistant, University of Maryland, BSF: 1997-1998
• Consultant, Paragon Bioservices Inc., Baltimore, Maryland: 1997- Present
• President/ Founder, Yeastek, Inc., College Park, Maryland: 1996-1998
  Fermentation Technician, University of Maryland, BSF: 1995-1997

EDUCATION

BACHELORS OF SCIENCE, Biology with focus in Economics 1997
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

AFFILIATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS

• Society of Industrial Microbiology
• Kappa Alpha Order, Faculty Advisor, Past President, Past Programs Director
• American Coaching Effectiveness Program Certified
• Completion of cGMP training modules from BioScience Contract Production Corporation (Cambrex)

PRESENTATIONS/WORKSHOPS

• "Bacterial Fermentation," Guest Lecturer, Biotechnology Training Course, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
• "Fermentation in the 21st Century," Guest Lecturer, Informational Seminar, SAIC
• "Microbiology and biotechnology," Guest Lecturer, Undergraduate Microbiology Course, University of Maryland
• Faculty Presenter/ Instructor, Fermentation Microbiology Workshop, University of Maryland
• "Yeast Culturing Techniques," Guest Lecturer, Home brewing Seminar, ATCC
• "Effects of agitation and pH on ethanol production of Saccharomyces cervisea," Lecturer, Undergraduate Microbiology Course, University of Maryland
• "Biotechnology Basics," Guest Lecturer, Maryland Day, University of Maryland
• "Project Management: How to complete Projects On Time, On Budget and On Target," University of Maryland Personal Development Course
• "Managing and Motivating Generation X," University of Maryland Personal Development Course
• "Motivating Today's Workforce," University of Maryland Personal Development Course
• "Negotiating Conflict At Work," University of Maryland Personal Development Course

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