Cepheid
Jen Donahue is a seasoned leader in Human Factors Engineering and Industrial Design, currently serving as Senior Director at Cepheid since December 2020, where responsibilities include overseeing a skilled team focused on usability and design excellence for all products. Prior to this role, Jen held positions at Beckman Coulter as a Staff Systems/Human Factors and Usability Engineer, contributing expert knowledge to new product development through user research and risk mitigation, and at Zodiac Aerospace and Boeing, enhancing inflight entertainment systems and crew station designs. Jen also has a background in Human Factors Research at the Air Force Research Laboratory and has experience in psychoeducational instruction through work with the Save the Family Foundation of Arizona. Educational qualifications include a Master of Science in Human Factors - Human Systems Engineering from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Psychology from Northern Arizona University.
Cepheid
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Cepheid is a molecular diagnostics company. The Company develops, manufactures and markets fully-integrated systems for testing in the Clinical and Non-Clinical markets. The Company's systems enable molecular testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases by automating otherwise complex manual laboratory procedures. The Company's systems integrate these steps and analyze biological samples in test cartridges. Its primary offering is the GeneXpert system, which integrates sample preparation in addition to Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) amplification and detection. The GeneXpert system is designed for a range of user types ranging from reference laboratories and hospital central laboratories to satellite testing locations, such as emergency departments and intensive care units within hospitals, as well as physician offices and other alternate site laboratories. It also offers the SmartCycler system, which integrates DNA amplification and detection to allow rapid analysis of a sample.