Laboratory Inventory Management

Tim Sheehy, Director of Genomics, Promega, will illustrate and walk-through the decision points on whether or not to introduce automation into your laboratory or biobanking environment, automate all or just part of the laboratory operations, what automation platform would work the best, which tasks should be automated within the process, how to incorporate and use the sample tracking ability that automation provides and balancing labor, quality and throughput. This will include automating both small & large volume DNA and/or RNA extractions, quantizations, pre-qualification measures and sample storage and delivery systems.

Benefits of RFID for Laboratory Inventory Management

You will learn:

• How to apply automation
• How to select the appropriate automation for the process/operation
• How to measure the risks and up front costs involved
• How to maximize the efficiency of the staff
• How RFID can impact your automation processes

Join our speakers as they talk about best practices in Laboratory Automation.

Tim Sheehy, Global Director of Genomics, Promega Corporation

Tim Sheehy is the Global Director of Genomics for Promega Corporation. Before joining Promega, Tim worked for SAIC at Ft Detrick, Frederick, MD where he managed the NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics’ DNA Extraction and Staging Lab (DESL). It was in this environment where Tim streamlined processes, integrated automated systems, and unified workflows to increase sample throughput while returning substantial cost efficiencies. By coupling open architecture robotics platforms with off the shelf chemistries DESL has contributed to an increase in the throughput of NCI funded research studies. Promega has taken this type of workflow approach to provide its technologies in a customized manner to meet the individual customer’s needs and this type of approach is already being adopted by biorepository facilities worldwide.

Prior to his work with NCI, Tim had over 20 years of clinical experience in the academia and industry.

Jason Rosemurgy, Global Sales Director, Terso Solutions, Inc.

Jason Rosemurgy is the Global Sales Director at Terso Solutions. He is responsible for all new business development, customer satisfaction and partnership initiatives for Terso. Jason has strengthened the management team at Terso through his exceptional leadership abilities, as well as his strength and experience in account management and new business development.

Prior to joining Terso in 2009, Jason personally owned and operated a business enterprise, and was responsible for the day-to-day operations and all aspects of profitability with over $42 million in annual revenues. During this time, Jason led the company to exponential increases in both sales volumes and revenues. Also prior to joining the Terso team, Jason served as a client representative for IBM/Lexmark, and was recognized for numerous sales and leadership initiatives.

Jason earned a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame.

Terso Solutions is a leading provider of automated inventory management solutions for tracking high-value medical and scientific products in healthcare and laboratory supply chains. Backed by 13 years of RFID product development and implementation experience, our commercially proven, field tested solution has logged over 9,000,000 operational hours around the World. With no hardware to purchase and no software to install, our integrated RFID solutions can help eliminate manual processes, improve regulatory compliance, and reduce stock-outs and expired products.