Phife Blackwelder

Phife Blackwelder is a highly skilled Equipment Engineer with substantial experience in laboratory operations and instrumentation management. Currently serving as a Staff Equipment Engineer at Twist Bioscience since March 2022, Phife previously held roles as Laboratory Instrumentation Manager and Laboratory Instrumentation Specialist at Color, focusing on instrumentation support for high throughput Covid testing labs. Experience also includes serving as Lab Support Manager at Steep Hill, where responsibilities encompassed the day-to-day operation of analytical instrumentation, and Field Service Engineer at Waters Corporation, performing maintenance on a variety of chromatographic systems. Earlier positions include Design Engineer at Sungevity, where solar systems were designed, and roles in research at Exelixis, Microcide Pharmaceuticals, and Schering-Plough Research Institute, focusing on protein characterization and natural products chemistry. Phife holds a Master's degree in Chemistry from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Old Dominion University.