Agility: Working with emerging technologies necessitates the ability to respond quickly to new discoveries, changing market trends, and development challenges.
Collaboration: The development lifecycle of any technology requires inputs from a plethora of expertise, and working with key opinion leaders, area experts, and other external resources required for specific tasks during development can be mutually beneficial.
Focus: Maintaining a tight alignment on product success metrics reduces waste in time and cost and improves final product quality.
Service: Providing a new paradigm in project management that empowers the maximum amount of direct dollar to support the execution of proposed work with minimal overhead and maximum return to the business, government, and investor.
TPS seeks to provide the project management, scientific expertise, and commercialization support necessary to bring technologies from bench to bedside. By working with small companies to leverage niche funding-sources, TPS will enable the delivery of products to market in an expeditious manner with the focus and discipline necessary to survive in today’s competitive technology mix.
Dr. Luke Burnett holds his doctorate from Wake Forest School of Medicine. Dr. Burnett has worked in the field of trauma, regenerative medicine and biomaterials for over a decade with a focus on wound and burn healing, as well as bone, muscle and nerve regeneration. Dr. Burnett has an extensive history of government grant and contract funding, having received 27 competitive research awards totaling over $19 million dollars from BARDA, NIH, and DoD. Dr. Burnett has published scientific work in major scientific journals, gives talks at multiple scientific conferences each year and has filed multiple patents for his work in in keratin biomaterials. Additionally Dr. Burnett is a 27 year veteran of the US Army, a graduate of the US Army War College, served two tours in Iraq, and retired as a Colonel.
Alexis Gabard has a Masters in Counselor Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Masters in Business Administration from the Wake Forest University School of Business. She has experience in the development of psychophysiological interventions, biotechnology, and information technology. She has managed projects with over $17M in funding from National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Defense (DoD), Congressionally-Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), and Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA). She has also contributed to implementation of key initiatives in small businesses, including Quality Management Systems, product development lifecycle management, training and professional development, and Lean management systems.