"My objective is to listen, learn your challenges, and provide solutions which enable my clients to be perpetually successful without the use of a consultant like myself."
-John Harman 2023
Nearly 30 years of experience streamlining the execution of design-make-test-analyze using lean processes, radical leadership and agile methods to implement scientific workflows - bring these blueprints to your organization.
Drug Discovery
Instrumentation
Selection, implementation and training to ensure long term success of instrumentation through vendor engagement to ensure the best fit for your people (researchers and ops), processes (your science) and technology (IT and Automation)
Informatics
Ensure information systems accelerate your science rather than being a "necessary evil". Typically even the biggest vendors need to be specifically instructed on how to use their product in the best way for YOUR applications. Implement a digital solution architecture to maximize knowledge, streamline critical decision-making processes and innovate faster.
Design and implement your automation solutions by selecting the best vendors and devices for YOUR workflows and long term objectives. Ensure that your automation operates in harmony with the rest of your scientific ecosystem.
Automation
Scientific Expertise
Excellence in analytical chemistry including chiral separations, high throughput purification, high throughput bioanalysis and mass spectrometry quantitation. High throughput chemistry, screening, ADME, sequencing and biophysical characterization.
Core Competency
Industrialize Scientific Discovery
Bring the scientific innovation, creativity, and enthusiasm of academia into the business of drug discovery and development through a strategic process of industrializing the scientific method.
Customer Profiles
Biotechnology and pharmaceutical space - Primary, contract lab, product or service provider
Startup companies (e.g. series A) who must identify the best talent and tools in which to invest to achieve PoC and beyond.
Pre-clinical stage research and development
A large biopharma company seeking meaningful improvements - digital transformation, automated laboratories, team topologies, knowledge management
Analytical testing and diagnostics
Any therapeutic modality (not med devices)
Strategy & Business
Prioritize your business objectives and focus.
Ensure you have the right teams and talent.
Define and communicate your business objectives to drive team autonomy and productivity.
Balance your OpEx and CapEx with your timelines and budget.
Optimize your internal and external collaborations and outsource partners.
Define your digital transformation and make it happen!
Laboratory Operations
Facility layout and infrastructure planning.
Equipment and instrumentation selection, implementation oversight, operational planning.
Define and communicate your business objectives to drive team autonomy and productivity.
Supply chain planning.
Accelerate your entire design-make-test-analyze cycle.
Adopt agile methods for project progression from speculative idea to the clinic.
Automation
Analyze your science to architect the best fit from commercially available automation.
Ensure your teams have the right talent to maximize the impact of your automation and evolve your automation as your science evolves.
Integrate existing technology in novel ways to fill gaps in commercial solutions.
Identify the right partners and solution architecture where new technology must be created.
Informatics
Find commercial solutions to accelerate your science by improving and reducing the number of tools you use to enhance the user experience for your researchers.
Ensure modern and feasible data and information security policies exist and are met.
Ensure the entire discovery cycle is supported by your information systems from hypothesis to conclusions.
Ensure FAIR and contextualized data in order to support modern AI/ML innovations.
Develop your talent to ensure you can autonomously maintain synergy with your evolving science.
Special Requests
Training: Develop your own in-house expertise
Liquid handling
Chromatography techniques, hardware, software
LIMS/ELN administration