Jay Alan Martin

 

351 San Benito Way

San Francisco CA 94127

jayamartin@gmail.com

(415) 519-1929

 

Summary

 

·            Medical, scientific, and technical writing

·            Technical editing

·            Web content writing

·            Hands-on biomedical research

·            Experience in academic, corporate, and non-profit environments

·            Strong familiarity with drug-development process

·            Excellent project management skills

 

 

Professional Experience

 

Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA

Senior Technical Writer, Technical Editor (July 2007 – present)

 

·         Write and manage information as Project Team Leader for Information Development on the SOLiD™ System team. SOLiD™ is the next-generation technology for high-throughput sequencing of the human genome.

·         Edit in-house documents for clarity and coherence of technical information.

 

Scleroderma Research Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Director of Medical Information   (2005 – 2007)

 

·         Authored the Foundation website’s scientific and medical content, in consultation with recognized medical experts in the area of scleroderma research.

·         Rewrote the Foundation handbook to make it more accessible to scleroderma patients.

·         Developed and introduced phone scripts to improve the consistency and effectiveness of the Foundation’s message.

·         Established the Foundation’s first literature database with over 1200 references.

·         Created the strategy to upgrade the organization, usability and presentation of the Foundation website to meet the needs of patients and physicians.

 

Elsevier MDL, Inc., San Leandro, CA

Senior Technical Communicator   (2001 – 2005)

 

·         Wrote and edited software manuals for MDL’s Biological-Assay software. Worked with in-house subject-matter experts to improve the scientific reference materials and worked examples for the research-biologist audience for this software.

·         Worked with subject-matter experts at remote offices to create new reference materials and online help for MDL’s Drug-Safety Assessment software.

·         Served as Project-Team Representative for several MDL products, working with team members to ensure accurate, comprehensive, and relevant chemistry- and biology-related reference materials and examples.

 

Institute for OneWorld Health, San Francisco, CA

Medical Writer (2002 – 2004; pro bono)

 

·         Contributed summary of aminoglycoside-drug interactions in NDA that was submitted to the Indian regulatory agency for eventual approval of paromomycin for treatment of visceral leischmaniasas.

·         Summarized clinical data of some of the Institute’s lead compounds for international drug applications.

 

Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA

GMP Technical Writer (1999 – 2001)

 

·         Wrote validated procedures for Genentech’s first high-speed drug-packaging line using the 21 CFR Part 11-compliant NovaManage, the electronic document-management and auditing system.

·         Used contextual inquiry methods, such as shadowing and interviewing operators, to organize and write standard operating procedures conforming to GMP requirements for next-generation packaging equipment.

·         Received seven “Recognition and Thanks Awards” for excellent work performance.

 

Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA

Senior Research Associate (1998 – 1999)

·         Analyzed role of novel gene family implicated in colon cancer.

 

Chiron Corp. (now Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.), Emeryville, CA

Specialist II, Chiron Corporation, (1994 - 1998)

·         Examined signaling mechanisms in animal development.

·         Coauthored paper on initiation and cell cycle.

·         Contributed toward award-winning design of Life Sciences Center.

 

University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Staff Research Associate II-III (1990 – 1994)

·         Showed that oncogene, Raf-1, interacts with scaffold protein 14-3-3 in vivo.

 

Education

 

·            Certificate in Technical Communication, UC Berkeley Ext., Dec, 2001.

·            M.S., Cellular Physiology, University of Chicago.

Thesis: The Role of Elongation Factor-2 Phosphorylation in Translational Regulation.

·            B.A., Chemistry, University of Chicago.

Continuing Education and Professional Development

·            Advanced Editorial Workshop: Substantive Editing, Fall 2007

·            “Intermediate Copyediting,” University of California, Berkeley Extension, Spring 2007.

·            “Photojournalism,” City College of San Francisco, December 2006.

·            “Introduction to Clinical Data Management and Biostatistics,” University of California, Berkeley Extension, April 2006.

·            “Clinical Trial Designs,” UC Berkeley Ext., November 2005.

·            “Writing the Feature Story,” UC Berkeley Ext., June 2005.

·            “Data Mining and Statistical Modeling with Applications,” UC Berkeley Ext., 2003.

·            “News Writing,” UC Berkeley Ext., Fall 2002.

 

Published papers

 

Martin, J., Halenbeck, R, and J. Kaufmann.  "The Human Transcription
Factor hTAFII150 (CIF150) is Involved in the Transcriptional
Regulation of Cell Cycle Progression."  Molecular and Cellular
Biology19 (1999):5548-56.

 

Fantl, W.J., Muslin, A.J., Kikuchi, A., Martin, J.A., MacNicol, A.M., Gross, R.W., and Williams, L.T.  "Activation of Raf-1 by 14-3-3 Proteins."  Nature 371 (1994):612-614.

Schneider, A., Martin, J., and Agabian, N. "A Nuclear-Encoded tRNA
of Trypanosoma brucei is Imported into Mitochondria."  Molecular and Cellular Biology14 (1994):2317-2322.

Grueso-Salazar, E.F., Routbort, M.J., Martin, J., Dawson, G., Roos, R.
"Polyclonal IgM Anti-GM1 Ganglioside Antibody in Patients with
Motor Neuron Disease and Variants."  Annals of Neurology27
(1990):558-563.

References are available upon request.

 

Writing samples and references: available upon request.