Daniel Engel M.S.
Cutting Edge Biotech
Professional info
5 years of experience combining business acumen with a do-it-yourself mindset. My DIY mindset helps save myself and others time through automation, design, and process improvement. I am currently working on a project that will completely automate and replace all of the dashboards that I currently use at my job, building it out in a combination of SQL and Power BI
Employment
Software Proficiencies
Power BI
MATLAB/SIMULINK
LabVIEW
MiniTab
Mathematica
Inventor Autodesk
ChemCAD
Adobe CS2 Suite
Microsoft Office Suite
2010 - present
2010 - present
SQL
C++
Java
Visual Basic (VBA)
Programming Language Proficiencies
Lab Proficiencies
HPLC
Gas Chromatography
Capillary electrophoresis
SDS-PAGE
ELISA
Western blot
Protein purification
PCR
Scanning Electron Microscopy
3D Printing
Education
Business Analyst
Alegeus
January 2016 - Present
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Implement, document, and develop process flows for “Team Support” ticketing application, leading to easier reporting, better tracking of workflows, higher quality, and better management
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Design, Code, and Manage multiple Excel- and Power BI-based Executive-facing dashboards for the operations and sales divisions, designed from the beginning to be easy-to-use, expandable, and automated
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Reduce manual process work by 50-90% through Microsoft Office automations, leading to greater accuracy with less work and input
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Run situational analyses of multiple, cross-organizational functions using Microsoft Access, Excel, and SQL
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Lead “Lunch-and-Learn” sessions and curriculum development: short, one-hour long sessions whose topics have included, but are not limited to Microsoft Excel, Public Speaking, and Roles and Responsibilities
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Develop Ad Hoc reports and easy-to-use data manipulation tools
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Manage multiple vendors to identify, prioritize, and collaboratively solve technical issues
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Part of the inaugural class of the Alegeus Aces Program, an internal, formal mentorship and growth program
Business Analyst
ZS Associates
March 2015-December 2015
As an undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), I studied towards a BSE in chemical engineering, with a pre-medical concentration. One of the strengths of CWRU's curriculum is that it also requires every engineer to have a minimum understanding in each of the major engineering fields. As a result of all of these courses, I have a significant exposure and understanding of the mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering fields, as well as strong bases in computer science, biology, chemistry, and physics. This is all in addition to the core chemical engineering.
I graduated Carnegie Mellon University with an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering. During my degree, I took coursework covering topics ranging from colloids and surfaces to rehabilitation engineering to cell biology.
For my thesis, I spent time utilizing Micelle ELFSE to develop a new form of DNA separation. This entailed numerous testing regimes, as well as developing the technology based on it's size.
Case Western Reserve University, Department of Chemical Engineering
August 2006 - May 2010
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
August 2010 - December 2011
Product Development Engineer, Consultant
Engel Holdings LLC DBA Dental Designs
October 2012 - Present
I have multiple collaborations in progress:
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I spent 3 months assisting Ophirex, LLC develop a business plan for their new product.
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As a part of the Research and Development team of Nutritional Frontiers Inc, I am developing a new, all-natural, alcohol-free mouthwash. I perform both development and market research to determine the potential response to new products; we intend to launch the first of many product collaborations in March of 2014.
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As a consultant for Nuvon Pharmaceuticals, I developed a quality management system, helping the company to track complaints and their responses. In doing so, I learned about FDA requirements: what is required, how to track them, what the responses must be, and how to track the individual responses.
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I recently completed collaboration regarding the development of a new product with a company in Germany
Carnegie Mellon University
August 2011 - December 2012
I investigated Micelle ELFSE as a researcher in Dr. James Schneider's Lab. While there, I developed new capillary electrophoresis protocols which were used to separate DNA (imagine attaching a parachute onto a strand of DNA). I regularly collaborated with my peers to share data and DNA products, share instruments, and debug these new, complex processes.
As a part of Dr. Heidi Martin's lab, I was given the opportunity to explore the science of diamond growth. The lab wanted to develop a quartz capillary with a conductive, metallic interior and an end diameter of ~2 μm. Because of its size, the capillary would not allow a wire to be pushed all the way to the end of the capillary; this became my project. I was tasked with developing a way to electrify the end of the capillary; since a wire was not possible, I had to discover another way. I ultimately did so through the development of a tungsten capillary lining through Sublimation Chemical Vapor Deposition of tungsten metal.
Case Western Reserve University
May 2009 - May 2010
University Hospitals of Cleveland
May 2009 - May 2010
As a researcher under the tutelage of Dr. Vicken Totten and in collaboration with the Emergency Medical Research Division of University Hospitals of Cleveland, I was heavily involved in research involving strokes and their causes. During the course of many evenings during my senior year, I performed a retrograde study of patients arriving in the Emergency Department complaining of stroke-like symptoms. We then broke up the patients into three, post-diagnosis categories: ischemic strokes, hemorrhagic strokes, and stroke mimics. We also collected data on each patient's medical history, demographics, and drug history. Though we were not able to collect enough data to be statistically significant, we noticed significant trends, such as a bi-modal peak in overall age vs. frequency of strokes correlating to tracked factors, and requiring further investigation.
I worked with a series of large, multinational pharmaceutical clients performing overall market and payer analysis in Microsoft Excel, Tableau and Qlikview, leading to greater leverage in reimbursement negotiations, and resulting in a large, multi-layer analysis of pharmaceutical pricing. However, what grew my love for data analytics was the time I spent assessing the future sales force strategy for multiple pharmaceutical clients, leveraging Excel, Javelin, SAS, and VBA. In the process, I developed a toolkit of skills across the Microsoft Office suite, which has helped me with every role I've had since this point. I also wrote, edited, and researched towards client proposals and final results presentations and spent significant time training colleagues to use internal, proprietary data and map tools