Dr. Joyce Kao

Freelancer trainer network providing Quality Training for Quality Research. Open Science, Data Literacy and Research Software Engineering. Founder of DRA with focus on trainer community building and business operations. Provides training on project management and agile methodologies.

Working with clients to find sustainable solutions in the topics of Project management, Web applications, Data Science, and Community Building.

Established the Open Innovation in Life Sciences association, a new initiative supported by Life Science Zurich, that helps life scientists practice open science. -Assembling the operational infrastructure, establishing strategic partnerships, and fundraising. -Designing and launching landing page, and managing online platforms for event registration and social media. -Supervising and mentoring conference planning committee in organizing the Open Innovation in Life Sciences annual conference.

-Collaborated across teams to organize the foundation of a company design system -Assisted in th decision making process and implementation of project management platform to improve company resource management -Refined agile methodologies for dev team and maintained the documentation of protocols -Created and tested mock applications using Adope XD and Figma -Implemented backend of configurator application using MariaDB SQL and Strapi CMS in Node.js/Express

BIOL-UA 10 Essential Molecular Biology: Dissecting The Cellular Machinery Co-designed curriculum and co-taught a summer biology course for pre-college students and non-majors.