Martin Daoust

Responsible for driving sales to achieve revenue targets and profitable growth for our Molecular assays (SARS-CoV-2, STI, Resp-4-plex, HPV, HBV, HCV, HIV, etc) and instruments (Alinity m, m2000) portfolio in Eastern Canada. Provide the first and second level of support and technical troubleshooting. New assays implementation. Contract renewals. Provide ongoing training and coaching to customers.

Account management and sales of the complete portfolio of microbiology and molecular products (media, detection kits, instruments, PCR, etc.). Face-to-face meetings with prospective clients. Managing a 3 million dollars’ territory composed of more than 150 industrial accounts in Eastern Canada and British Colombia. Pharma, government and private laboratories. Business development.

Promoting Hologic portfolio to customers in Ontario, Quebec and Maritimes. Portfolio includes ThinPrep, Cervista, CT/GC, HPV and Trichomonas assays, fetal fibronectin and molecular analyser instruments. Business development and territory growth.

Responsible for representing Medtronic during surgeries and implants by providing all necessary support. Performs interrogations of all pacing and defibrillator devices and provides technical support and follow-ups in hospitals and clinics.

Prospection of new customers in the US and Canada. Promote new products and assays to Helicos customers or future adopters. Travel with sales representatives to prospective and existing customers’ sites to assist during the sale process (includes sales development and strategic account management). Consultative and technical selling of next-generation sequencing products (hardware, software and reagents). Technical presentations and demonstrations to new and prospective customers to help the growth of our business and to position our products. Responsible for first and second level of scientific support. Development of SOP’s, IV/OV and other documents. Responsible for customer training (instrumentation, application, bioinformatics). Hardware and software support.

Account management (hardware, software and reagents). Technical and service expert for blood screening customers and diagnostics instruments. Responsible for performing repair, preventative maintenance for blood screening and diagnostics instruments. Train clients on regulatory, quality and documentation related to blood screening and diagnostics instruments. First line of support for IT issues, software installation and upgrades.

Consultative and technical selling of genotyping products (hardware, software, reagents). Prospection of new customers in the US and Canada. Travel with sales representatives to assist during the sale process. Technical presentations and demonstrations to new and prospective customers to help increasing revenues and to better position our products. Applications support, installation of equipment, system validation, customer training and scientific support. Troubleshoot issues related to user's technical skills, biochemistry/assay design, experimental design, software and instruments. First line of IT/Bioinformatics support (i.e. databases management), software installation and upgrades.

SNP’s identification, gene array technology, linkage mapping, genotyping, MALDI-TOF (chip-based genotyping), computer-based analyses. Team leader for MALDI-TOF and genotyping projects. Supervisor of 5-7 technical staff. Maintain equipment. Technical and scientific presentations.

DNA extraction, Southern, cloning, PCR, library construction and screening, signature-tag mutagenesis, FACS, computer-based analyses

Ph.D. Thesis on Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease in French-Canadian familes

Two months internship in Human Genetics. Dr Stefan Somlo's lab. Studying Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease