Sam Vallagomesa

Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Industrial Sales Representative

2023 - Current

Founder, Lead Executive

2019

Executive consulting and action with growth-focused business partners.

Platform Team / Growth Scout

2022

Support fundraising and dealflow efforts - empowering AAPI founders to build enduring businesses.

Territory Sales Manager, USA

2022 - 2023

2022 - "Rainmaker" award winner

Sales and Marketing Manager

2016 - 2022

Responsibilities: - Management of existing sales accounts, generation of further sales. Activities include: - Order fulfillment coordination / project planning and scheduling - Costing and quoting of projects - Marketing material production and distribution, CRM - Sales calls, customer visits and correspondence, handling product information inquiries Achievements: - Website and brand redevelopment - Managed collaboration to validate a next-gen open chemistry platform Fentanyl assay - Development/introduction of new product lines : Protease Free and Cell Culture Grade HSA, hPL

Accompanist (Piano and Organ)

2010 - 2020

Accompany the choirs for weekly masses. Serve as a replacement pianist in the absence of other regular pianists, as well as perform at special occasions such as funerals, weddings, etc. Parishes: St. John the Evangelist, Baytown, Texas (2010-2014); Rice Catholic Student Center, Houston, Texas (2014-2016); St. James, Seguin, Texas (2016-2020); Sts. Peter and Paul, New Braunfels, Texas (2019-2020);

Capstone Senior Design

2015 - 2016

Capstone Senior Design was an ongoing year-long project undertaken during my final year of undergraduate schooling. We formed a team to create an intracardiac device which would monitor for and detect blood clots in the left atrial appendage. Team Atriumph was our collaboration between Rice faculty, four senior Bioengineering students, and Dr. Mehdi Razavi with Texas Heart institute. The student team was composed of myself, Erica Kim, Angela Li, and Michael Williams-Hart.

Commercial Real Estate Intern

2016 - 2016

Commercial Real estate internship through Rice University's Gateway Internship program. Through this program I gained experience in real estate analysis under the tutelage of brokers Maury Bronstein and John S. Wall Jr. I became familiar with the use of tools for information gathering and analysis such as: Google Earth and other GIS programs, MyFirstAmerican and other Title investigation sites, LoopNet, CoStar and other commercial listing sydicates. I formulated reports for use in presenting data and formulate analysis for commercial buyers.

Research Assistant

2014 - 2015

Maintaining fly lines, performing dissection, immunofluorescent staining, imaging and analysis on brains of transgenic Drosophila to investigate Huntington's disease under the tutelage of Dr. Zhang.