Bridging the gap between technology and business
Greater New York City Area
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- Member of Technical Staff at Fog Creek Software
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- Associate Director, Technical Solutions at Applied Strategies Technology
- Instrument Scientist at MDS Sciex
- Software Engineer at Signature BioScience
- Software Engineer at San Francisco Industrial Software
- Education
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- Columbia University in the City of New York
- Stanford University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Eric Nehrlich’s Summary
I have been a scientist, an end-user, an engineer, a programmer, and a manager. This background means I can bridge gaps in communication between different people and departments and ensure an organization is running smoothly. In addition to these multiple perspectives, I also have the problem-solving skills of a physicist, and the debugging skills of an engineer, which means I can help untangle problems that are unsolvable from within a single discipline.
I am looking to apply these skills in management, either in leading a science or technology group or in stategy development for such groups.
Eric Nehrlich’s Experience
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Member of Technical Staff
Fog Creek Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)
I am involved in all aspects of this startup as part of a Software Management Training Program.
• Currently Program Manager for FogBugz, our main product, responsible for the specification of upcoming releases.
• Managed the FogBugz 6 release, scoping and prioritizing customer feature requests and bug fixes, and testing changes throughout beta testing. The release was successfully delivered in time for the already scheduled product launch tour.
• Managed the customer service department through a period of rapid growth where the volume of customer emails and phone calls tripled, while interviewing and mentoring new employees to help handle that growth. -
Associate Director, Technical Solutions
Applied Strategies Technology
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Biotechnology industry)
May 2005 — February 2006 (10 months)
Responsible for the development of custom software solutions in C# for life sciences companies and public health organizations.
• Designed and implemented user interfaces for two major clients, including the World Bank, giving them insight into the underlying decision analysis models used to forecast market demand. The World Bank project convinced government donors to raise $1.5B for pneumococcal vaccines after seeing the projected results based on our model.
• Managed a client software upgrade project, gathering requirements from the customer, setting the scope and estimating the resources necessary to complete the project in the time allotted. -
Instrument Scientist
MDS Sciex
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
May 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 1 month)
Part of a 12-person research team that developed the CellKey™ system (http://www.cellkey.com) from a research prototype into a bioimpedance-based cellular assay instrument for drug discovery
• Led software development and data analysis efforts necessary to collect and interpret user-valued information from this novel instrument technology.
• Managed communications between potential users, the research team, the marketing team, and the production software group.
• One of four people chosen to represent the team when the CellKey™ system was given the “Polypops Foundation Award for the Best Innovation for Microplate Design or Application” at the Society of Biomolecular Sciences 2008 conference. -
Software Engineer
Signature BioScience
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Research industry)
November 2000 — April 2003 (2 years 6 months)
• Delivered useful software so consistently that one scientist said “Eric can just read my mind and give me what I want!”, while prioritizing effectively to avoid becoming a bottleneck for the several research teams being supported.
• Developed all prototype software to acquire and analyze the proof-of-concept data necessary for the CellKey™ project to survive Signature’s bankruptcy and be bought by MDS Sciex. -
Software Engineer
San Francisco Industrial Software
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1998 — October 2000 (2 years 4 months)
Developed applications for numerous clients, with responsibilities ranging from hardware testing to user interface design. Two sample clients:
• BD Biosciences - Lead software engineer on a six person team developing a digital flow cytometer. Developed an award-winning prototype with National Instruments hardware, then led effort to create a version for production that cost less than existing cytometers but outperformed them significantly. The production version was demonstrated to customers before a competing internal team of more than 50 people was able to deliver anything more than schematics.
• Revivant – Developed a software prototype that enabled clinical trials for a biomedical life-critical application.
Eric Nehrlich’s Education
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Columbia University in the City of New York
M.S., Technology Management, 2006 — 2008 (expected)
The program is designed to train executives to manage technology organizations. My master’s project, developing and presenting a business plan for a requirements software venture, is supervised by Jon Williams, now CTO of iVillage. GPA 3.8/4.0
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Stanford University
M.S., Physics, 1995 — 1998
Worked on the BaBar detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator as part of Prof. Pat Burchat's group.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S., Physics, 1990 — 1994
Worked on the GEM muon detector system for the Superconducting Super Collider in Prof. Louis Osborne's lab. Took core EE/CS classes. GPA 4.6/5.0
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Formerly sang with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, with whom I performed at Carnegie Hall and in an Emmy award-winning production of Sweeney Todd. Published an article titled "Principles of Charm" in issue 3 of Ambidextrous Magazine, Stanford University's Journal of Design.
Eric Nehrlich’s Groups:
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Columbia University EMSTM member
Eric Nehrlich’s Honors:
The Polypops Foundation Award for the Best Innovation for Microplate Design or Application at the Society of Biomolecular Sciences 2008 conference was awarded to four of us from the CellKey team for our work at Signature BioScience and MDS Sciex.
Awarded Best Biomedical Application at NIWeek 2000 for my work with Becton Dickinson at SFIS.
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