About Us

About Affygility Solutions

Affygility Solutions is a provider of premier quality environmental health and safety services to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical industries.

Our staff

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  Dean Calhoun, CIH

  Founder, President and CEO

  Dean Calhoun is an American Board of Industrial Hygiene Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH). He has been an environmental health and safety professional for over 21 years.

  Prior to starting Affygility Solutions, Dean was the Associate Director of Environmental Health and Safety for Gilead Sciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing pharmaceuticals for infectious, viral, and oncology applications. His experiences including development and implementation of global EH&S guidelines, implementation and coordination of an executive management EH&S Steering Committee, establishment of occupational exposure limits for pharmaceutical active ingredients, industrial hygiene program management, and EH&S auditing of research, manufacturing and contract manufacturing facilities.

  Dean has spoken for a number of professional organizations including the U.S. Environment Protection Agency, the Colorado Safety Association, the Bay Area Environmental Safety Group, the National Association for Environmental Management, the National Safety Council, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the American Industrial Hygiene Association.

  Dean graduated with a B.Sc. degree in Engineering from the University of Wyoming and has dual master degrees in Environmental Policy and Management, and Technology Management from the University of Denver. He is a member of AIHA, ASSE, and NAEM.

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  Curt Beery

  Chief Technology Officer

  Curt has worked in the Information Technology field for more than 15 years, with experience in the pharmaceutical and financial services industries. As chief architect of our Affytrac EH&S management system, Curt directs Affygility's technology efforts. He is a passionate advocate for web standards and the web as a premier application platform.

  Curt graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana.

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  Todd Hansen

  Environmental Health and Safety Specialist

  Todd has been in the biotechnology industry for over seven years, specializing in radiation safety and laboratory hygiene.

  Todd has been a Certified Hazardous Materials Technician since 2000 and has studied Environmental Health and Safety at the University of California, San Diego.

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  Joe Nieusma, Ph.D

  Senior Toxicologist

  Dr. Nieusma is Senior Toxicologist with Affygility Solutions. He has been an environmental health and safety professional for over 18 years.

  Prior to joining Affygility Solutions, Joe was an industrial toxicologist for Sandoz pharmaceuticals where he was responsible for toxicological evaluation of new and existing products to establish safe occupational exposure limits. In addition, he was responsible for managing the industrial hygiene program.

  Dr. Nieusma has spoken for a number of professional organizations including the American Industrial Hygiene Association, and graduated from the University of Colorado with a doctorate degree in pharmaceutical sciences. His undergraduate degree is in biology and chemistry from Central Michigan University. He is an associate member of the Society of Toxicology.

• Amy Cheyne

  Executive Assistant

  Amy has been with Affygility since 2003. She takes good care of Dean, Curt, Todd and with managing the daily operations at Affygility. Amy started her career teaching elementary education, and later on coaching high school girls swimming, which prepared her well for managing and organizing the unruly executives at Affygility.

  Amy earned a B.A. degree in elementary education from the University of Wyoming.