Jonathan Siegrist Email Address

Chief Technology Officer

Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD) is a leading molecular diagnostics company that is dedicated to improving healthcare by developing, manufacturing, and marketing accurate yet easy-to-use molecular systems and tests. The advantages over other technologies are accuracy, speed, and ease-of-use -- quickly getting important information into the hands of healthcare professionals to dramatically improve patient outcomes.

---Objective---Obtain permanent employment as a technical engineering manager, director level or higher, in the area of medical devices / in vitro diagnostics
• I want to contribute to revolutionary products that will drastically improve healthcare• My career goal is to strategically drive & technically manage programs/projects for devices focused on the diagnostics market (clinical and/or point-of-care)---Technical Profile---• Strong interdisciplinary engineering and biomedical background• Extensive experience with technology and systems integration• Design, prototyping, and manufacture of polymer meso/microfluidic devices • Hardware and software development for instrumentation support• Assay development including surface chemistries and signal transduction---Personal Profile---• Proven technical leadership in engineering R&D environments• Proven program/project management skills with 10+ IVD product launches• Natural leader with excellent communication and leadership skills• Self-motivated and hard working• Persistent and creative problem-solver• Excels in challenging environments• Strong entrepreneurial driveSpecialties: Microfluidics, mesofluidics, in vitro diagnostics (IVD), point-of-care (POC), sample-to-answer, nucleic acid (DNA, RNA) diagnostics; polymer fabrication, CNC machining, micromachining, CAD/CAM (SolidWorks, Pro/E, AutoCAD); microfabrication, photolithography, soft-lithography, cleanrooms; assay development, PCR, immunoassay (ELISA); hardware instrumentation, thermal, magnetic, optical, fluorescence, LabVIEW; biosensor, glucose sensing, tight glycemic control (TGC); project management; program management; risk analysis; ISO 13485; ISO 14971; QSR 21 CFR 820;