I run process engineering for CAR-T cell therapy manufacturing at Bristol Myers Squibb, covering the Abecma and Breyanzi programs. The work is GMP operations, continuous process verification, tech transfer, and MSAT. It is the kind of manufacturing where every batch is made for one specific patient, and you feel that at every step.
I have been in biopharma for 18 years. Most of that time has been spent on the floor, close to the process and close to the people actually running it. The best improvements I have seen rarely come from a slide deck. They come from an operator saying "this step never makes sense" and someone being willing to listen.
In 2024 I finished my Executive MBA at Kellogg. I went mostly because I wanted the business side of things to stop feeling like a foreign language. It worked. I think about strategy and finance differently now, and it has made me a better engineer, not a worse one.
I'm detail-oriented to a fault, run most of my analysis in JMP, and I speak English and Cantonese. Outside of work I draw, travel, tinker with home infrastructure, and cook for my dog Hazel.
