“Valerie is an asset to any algae project. She brings years of experience and a practical perspective that relates research to large scale cultivation, a skill that is extremely valuable. She is great to work with, has a positive can-do attitude and has perseverance when it comes to working towards completing projects and following through on interesting leads.”
- Lieve Laurens, Senior Research Scientist, Bioprocess Research and Development, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
“I have found Harmon Consulting to be informed yet flexible and they have provided timely and valuable technical and operational advice for the algae project MBD is considering commercializing.”
- Roger Taylor, Senior Project Manager, MBD
“Valerie clearly has broad, relevant knowledge about algal production systems at scale and the ability to apply this knowledge to experimental design, trouble shooting, and data analysis. Valerie was instrumental in organizing an effort around curation and analysis of a very large data set spanning more than 3 years by setting up well-organized spreadsheets to track progress. This allowed rapid success in pushing along the project. Valerie also possesses excellent team management and personnel skills and was an invaluable member of the team.”
- Eric Knoshaug, Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
“Thank you, Valerie. We worked well together with the Chile team to move sustained improvements to the micro algae growth and the antioxidant productivity. Linking data based process improvements with expert knowledge of biological function of micro algae is a winning combination.”
Larry McCarty, SVP Production/Supply Chain, Valensa Intl.
“Bringing a new product from a new organism to market is exceedingly difficult and rarely achieved in the still maturing algae industry. I cannot overstate how important Valerie’s contribution was to the development and commercial launch of our new algae product ZIVOLife (www.zivo.life). Among many contributions, her knowledge and resources helped us navigate both cultivation development for an alga never before in mass culture and downstream processing for the new food product. She helped us to build the associated manufacturing quality program and to teach and train a young, international production team in South America. She authored our GRAS dossier and managed the food safety expert review process, which allows us now to sell ZIVOLife in the United States. Simply, we would not have ZIVOLife without Valerie! This is the second successful project I’ve worked on with Valerie, and Valerie is the first call on the next.”
Harlan Miller, ZIVO Biosciences