About

Howie Seay

Good data is still harder to get than it should be. I build the instruments and software that close the gap between the question and an answer: flow cytometry, spectral analysis, and automated cell therapy manufacturing. Underneath all three it is the same job — work out what people actually need, make the case for building it, and see it through to something they can use. Consulting work runs through How We See LLC.

01 / Focus

What I work on

Three threads, one idea: measurement you can trust, at the scale medicine needs.

Cell therapy manufacturing

Making the automated line real

Product for the Cell Shuttle at Cellares: orchestration, scheduling, reagent and information management, led across five scrum teams and more than 30 developers during the build. That includes the traceability that lets the platform make real patient doses under FDA-regulated quality systems.

Cytometry & spectral

Fifteen years on the instruments

Conventional and full spectral, panel design, cell sorting, and the troubleshooting that keeps a core running. Named inventor on a granted method for modeling and minimizing spillover spreading, and board certified as a Specialist in Cytometry.

Science into software

Requirements from the bench, not the boardroom

Gathered face to face with the scientists who use the thing, at the booth, on site, in the lab. Then come the business cases, pricing, and roadmaps that survive contact with reality.

02 / Record

The long version

Fifteen years of it: fee-for-service cytometry and sorting cores at the University of Florida, panel design and spectral unmixing at BD and FlowJo, a genomics platform at Rosalind, and now automated cell therapy manufacturing at Cellares. Two granted patents, a stack of publications, and a peer review habit.

03 / Resources

Flow cytometry, mapped

A curated guide to the field: the communities worth joining, the books worth reading, the software worth learning, and the courses worth the time. Everything I wish someone had handed me on day one.

Browse the resources

04 / Elsewhere

Get SH*t Done

GS*D helps small businesses grow, with skill-building workshops for the DIY-inclined and full project management for anyone ready to hand it off. Consultation, education, facilitation. Run by Danielle Seay.

Get serviced
Get SH*t Done — consultation, education, facilitation

05 / Projects

Things built to settle an argument

Side projects tend to start as a question nobody could answer at the table. The Euchre odds simulator runs Monte Carlo trials across your hand, seat, and the upcard to work out whether calling is the right move, then shows its reasoning.

Run the numbers

06 / Contact

Let's talk

Flow cytometry, product work in life sciences, or something else entirely. Email reaches me directly; LinkedIn works too.