Norton Kitagawa

Norton Kitagawa has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and industries. Norton is currently working as the VP of Bioinformatics at InterVenn Biosciences since January 2022. Before that, they served as the Sr. Manager of Data Science at Zymergen, Inc. from August 2019 to October 2021, where they led a team of metabolic engineers, bioinformatics scientists, data scientists, and software engineers in proposing genetic edits to strains.

In the past, Norton held positions at Agilent Technologies, starting as a R&D Scientist/Software Engineer in January 2008 and later becoming an Integrated Biology R&D Manager from August 2014 to July 2019. In these roles, they contributed to the development of various software solutions and tools for mass spectrometry data analysis. Norton also worked on statistical profiling software and improved real-time acquisition algorithms for mass spectrometers.

Norton began their career as a Graduate Student Researcher at the University of California, Riverside, where they focused on using mass spectrometry and stable isotope labeling to solve the subunit stoichiometry of the yeast vacuolar ATPase's soluble V1 domain. Prior to that, they worked as a Windows Software Engineer at Ciphergen and as a Lab Assistant at Elan Pharmaceuticals.

Overall, Norton Kitagawa's work experience showcases their expertise in bioinformatics, data science, software development, and mass spectrometry, with a strong focus on developing solutions for biological and chemical analysis.

Norton Kitagawa completed their education as follows:

- From 2001 to 2007, Norton Kitagawa attended the University of California, Riverside, where they obtained a Ph.D. degree in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology.

- From 1993 to 1997, Norton Kitagawa studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Molecular and Cell Biology.

- In 1990, Norton Kitagawa graduated from John F. Kennedy High School and received a High School Diploma.

- Norton Kitagawa has no specific degree or field of study mentioned for their time at SUNY Upstate Medical University.

In addition to their formal education, Norton Kitagawa has obtained various certifications:

- In May 2021, they received a certificate in Natural Language Processing with Classification and Vector Spaces from Coursera Course Certificates.

- In May 2019, Norton Kitagawa obtained a certificate in Sequence Models from Coursera Course Certificates.

- In April 2019, they received a certificate in Convolutional Neural Networks from Coursera Course Certificates.

- In March 2019, Norton Kitagawa obtained certificates in both "Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization" and "Neural Networks and Deep Learning" from Coursera Course Certificates.

- In February 2019, they received a certificate in Machine Learning from Coursera Course Certificates.

- In March 2013, Norton Kitagawa became a Certified Scrum Product Owner through Scrum Alliance.

- In January 2012, they obtained the Certified ScrumMaster certification from Scrum Alliance.