PHILLIP BRIAN PRATHER

San Diego, California 92122 858-201-9391 phillip_prather@sbcglobal.net

LIFE SCIENCES TECHNICAL WRITER & EDITOR

Skilled technical writer and editor with over fifteen years experience in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical diagnostics fields at organizations including Pfenex, Life Technologies, and BD Bioscience. B.S. in biology with minor in English. Areas of expertise include technical writing, editing, copywriting, technical service, employee training, product launch, market analysis, and problem resolution. Demonstrated Skills --Writing scientific reports including large, detailed progress reports for a complex vaccine product development project --Clearly and creatively summarizing essential scientific technical concepts to produce accurate, customeroriented biotechnical marketing materials --Managing product release through advocacy and enforcement of quality control standards --Utilizing scientific knowledge in team-oriented projects to improve web content and other technical marketing communications --Writing and editing scientific marketing material of high quality and substantial quantity on deadline --Implementing best practices in web marketing writing Key Accomplishments --Wrote major project phase reports and developed lab reporting forms for a vaccine development project.. -- Wrote numerous web catalog product descriptions for Life Technologies, including those for a $700 million new product introduction and several other major new products. Provided heavy editing of a major portion of new product releases for web catalog. This work improved sales effectiveness and professionalism of the catalog by producing content-rich copy. -- Developed a web catalog product description template for two antibody product lines. These addressed the need for high-quality web catalog presentations of multi-million dollar product lines. They greatly improved content appearance and marketing effectiveness of the web pages, and improved efficiency of web page production. --Provided high-quality scientific technical support to a very large number of customers of scientific reagents and diagnostics companies over 9 years. Received excellent feedback from management and customers. --Updated, enlarged, and creatively enhanced a host of product catalog descriptions for the Life Technologies web catalog, one of the largest biotechnology tools catalogs on the web. This brought web catalog entries for high-revenue products up to a high standard of excellence. -- Managed antibody product release process through development and enforcement of quality control standards. This enhanced market reputation and product value for an emerging biotech firm. CAREER HISTORY Technical Writer PFENEX, INC, San Diego, California 2012-2013 Wrote major stage reports for a large malaria vaccine process development project. Responsibilities involved performing all aspects of report writing including formulating report narrative, integrating data from researchers, formatting data tables and graphics, and writing and editing, and proofreading the reports. Product Marketing/Web Content Consultant LIFE TECHNOLOGIES, Carlsbad, California 2010-2011 Prepared and copyedited content for the companys web catalog, including HTML coding of product descriptions. Generated product metadata; uploaded and maintained web catalog database. Improved and expanded web catalog product descriptions.

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Technical Service Scientist and Marketing Specialist ABGENT, INC., San Diego, California 2008-2010 Managed the product release process and performed Technical Service. Executed strategic marketing projects to develop gene-specific antibody targets. Edited product descriptions for the online catalog. Responded to customers complaints and offered advice on product selection. Generated quotations for custom peptide and antibody products. Coordinated and facilitated trade shows presentations. Researched the market to create lists of thousands of new disease-related protein targets. Optimized search engine relevance through the creation of new product names for the antibody line. Technical Service Representative QUIDEL CORPORATION, San Diego, California 2007-2008 Supported customers, sales representatives and distributors with technical product issues. Developed and edited outbound marketing materials and provided marketing and sales support for studies on customer conversion to the products. Senior Technical Service Representative & Enterprise Resource Team Member BD BIOSCIENCES, San Diego, California 1995-2005 Provided support to customers, sales representatives and foreign distributors for 3,000+ products. Wrote / maintained FAQ and technical protocol web content. Created system design proposal presentations. Performed competitive analyses. Represented the company at domestic and foreign trade shows. Developed a prototype online product information site and its content. Wrote, edited and proofread scientific marketing materials, including brochures, ads, product descriptions, protocols, and articles. Extended SAP functionality that reduced technical service time and increased sales revenue. Planned, tested, validated, trained and implemented the SAP Enterprise system at various sites as a member of the customer-to-cash process team.

EDUCATION Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology (Minor in English) University of Washington, Seattle, Washington PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Molecular Biology Training Program, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts Course in Online Marketing, University of California Irvine Extension COMPUTER SKILLS Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Microsoft CRM, SAP Commergent e-commerce Database Management System Day Communique Web Content Management System, HTML

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