August Allen

Chief Technology Officer at Enveda

Boulder, Colorado, United States

About

Experience

  • Enveda (Boulder, Colorado, United States · Hybrid)
    • Chief Technology Officer
      Jul 2023 - Present · 3 yrs

    • Chief Platform Officer
      Oct 2021 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Recursion (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States)
    • Director of Product Management
      Jun 2021 - Oct 2021 · 5 mos

      Translating high level strategic vision into specific capabilities. Decision maker around "what" and "when" to build capabilities for the Recursion OS on our scale-up and biological cartography efforts. Examples include creating internal applications and API's to enable scientists to more deeply interrogate our biological images and identify novel drug discovery programs, designing experiments to confirm hypotheses, and transitioning our experiment evaluation pipeline to leverage better Deep Learning models based on a set of pre-defined benchmarks. Developed key metric dashboards to support our transition as a publicly traded company (IPO, April 2021).

    • Senior Product Manager
      Oct 2019 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Led a cross-functional team developing biological tools, such as CRISPR, to build thousands of models of human diseases on our platform. Expanded technical skills by publishing dozens of internal Jupyter Notebooks focused on platform optimization as well as developing a bot for our internal slack work space to provide information on our internal library of gene-knockouts, compounds and experiments.

    • Operational Process and Product Manager
      May 2019 - Oct 2019 · 6 mos

      Ensure laboratory operations continue to run smoothly while leading product management of the Phenoprint & Hit Discovery cross-functional team, which identifies disease-signatures and potential therapeutics from our 3+ petabyte cellular image data set. • Organized a cross-functional team of biologists and data scientists to scale CRISPR for discovering novel drug candidates on our phenomics platform. • Built high-level operational dashboards for internal reporting to identify bottlenecks and potential issues. • Developed and standardized screening strategies to assess the potential of new chemical entities and re-purposing drug candidates for the treatment of various diseases.

  • Drug Product Development Co-op at The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
    Jan 2015 - Aug 2015 · 8 mos

    • Designed and programmed high-throughput assays for Hamilton Robotic Workstations • Evaluated protein stability with chromatography, electrophoresis and spectroscopy • Wrote method and trained users on Micro-Flow Imaging to detect sub-visible particles

  • Manufacturing Supply & Technology Co-op at Bristol-Myers Squibb
    Jul 2013 - Dec 2013 · 6 mos

    • Developed a strategy for continuous process verification of biological drug substances to meet FDA guidance for industry • Created a series of five analyses which evaluated process consistency of the upstream and downstream steps of manufacturing • Authored technical reports on the implementation of the analyses for multiple biologics

  • Software Engineering Intern at CACI International Inc
    Jun 2010 - Aug 2010 · 3 mos

    • Reverse engineered malware by dissembling signatures using IDA PRO • Evaluated programming tutorials for their effectiveness in instruction • Full time internship during the summer of 2010