Martha Kimos
Clinical Operations Leader | Change Catalyst | Sophisticated Six Sigma | Mentoring and Coaching Champion | Growth Genie
- Role
- Associate Director, Laboratory Operations Translational Sciences at Precision For Medicine
- Location
- Abingdon, MD, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Martha Kimos
OPERATIONS LEADER | MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST | OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE Highly accomplished laboratory operational leader with a robust history of molecular biology expertise. Recognized for excellence in mentorship, influence, process transformation, and project experience in Lean Six Sigma methodologies. Consistently delivers customer-centric projects developing metrics-focused dashboards to enable efficient monitoring of complex assay performance, turnaround time, and quality metrics. Past projects have resulted in hard savings of over $1 million for organizations. Skills:Operational Excellence | Process Transformation | Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt | Team Leadership | Molecular Biology | Data Analytics and Reporting | Change Management | Stakeholder Partnership | Performance Coaching and Mentoring | Next Generation Sequencing | Succession Planning | CAP / CLIA / GMP / GLP | Cross-Functional Collaboration | Project Management | Strategic Problem-Solving | Wet Lab NGS ProcessesAssay Platforms: Luminescence | Fluorescence | Fluorescent Polarization (FP)| Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)| Homogeneous Time-resolved Fluorescence (HTRF)| Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)Equipment and Software:Illumina NovaSeq | Illumina HiSeq | Illumina NextSeq | Illumina cBot | Illumina TruSeq | Qubit | Perkin Elmer Sciclone | Hamilton STAR | Perkin Elmer Zephyr | Oxford Nanopore MiniON | R Studio | Linux | MiniMap2 | Dotmatics ELN | Tempest Liquid Handler | Cybio-Felix Liquid Handler | Tecan Microplate Reader | Nanodrop Spec | Wrike Management System | GraphPad Prism | MiniTab | JMP | Microsoft Office Suite | SmartSheet | Lucidchart | Tableau | Box | Egnyte| Agile | MediaLab | ETQ | Netsuite | Azure | AWSEducation:Masters of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Maryland,B altimore, MDBachelor of Science, Biology, Towson University, Towson, MDProfessional Training:Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, 2025, Villanova UniversityMB (ASCP) CM, 2021Key Accomplishments:• Spearheaded 20 optimization and improvement projects delivering labor reductions and turnaround time of between 5 – 25% resulting in $1.3 million in hard savings and $800K in soft savings for the organization.• Promotes a culture of lean excellence through mentorship and coaching culminating in the sponsorship of 3 successful LSSGB and 7 successful LSSYB certificate projects over 4 years.• Initiates creation of dashboards to measure assay metrics as well as COGs analysis and savings, highlighting trend data and promoting a culture of operational excellence.
Experience
Associate Director, Laboratory Operations Translational Sciences
Apr 2025 — Present
Education
Towson University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
University of Maryland, Baltimore Graduate School
Master of Science (M.S.)
Skills
- Assay Development
- Molecular Biology
- Enzyme Assays
- Elisa
- Lateral Flow Assays
- High Throughput Screening
- Medium Throughput Screening
- Fda Gmp
- Glp
- Cell Culture
- Gmp
- Transfection
- Good Laboratory Practice (Glp)
- Life Sciences
- Polymerase Chain Reaction (Pcr)
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