Adam Bagg Email & Phone Number

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

- LIMS lead including implementation of a new LIMS- Data and data management - Line management responsibility- Day to day management of the LIMS including configuration and workflow improvement/design- Integration with EPR systems- Analyser interfacing and connectivity

Southampton, United Kingdom

• Extensive experience in Bacteriology with some working knowledge of Virology (particularly related to COVID-19 work including use of POCT and walkaway molecular diagnostic devices such as Hologic Panther, Cepheid GeneXpert, and BioFire Torch Array).• Worked throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in a diagnostic laboratory hub processing SARS-CoV-2 specimens (local and regional), which has included lone night working to process urgent COVID admission screening samples.• Successfully appointed to a progressional specialist Biomedical Scientist post after 18 months, currently nearing completion of my IBMS Specialist Portfolio in Medical Microbiology.• Experience and responsibilities have included analysis and interpretation of a wide range of patient samples by a variety of techniques and reporting of results according to laboratory procedure. • Compliance with ISO15189 for UKAS accreditation. EQA officer with use of QMS. Producing and amending SOP's and technical documents. Verification and validation of new analysers and processes.Roles and Responsibilities include:- Laboratory working bench reading- Compliance with ISO15189- Experience in interpreting results from antimicrobial susceptibility assays, urinary samples, gynaecological samples, fluids and tissue samples, blood culture and CSF samples, respiratory samples etc- Microscopy (e.g. Gram stain, Acridine orange, bright field)- Supervisory role (for laboratory support staff)- NEQAS officer - Use of QPulse quality system and Masterlab LIMS- Involvement in verification and validation work (e.g. Bactec Blood Culture system)- Experience of Category II and Category III laboratory working - IBMS Competence Portfolio MentorSystems used:- Masterlab and QPulse IT software (also use of Microsoft packages)- Sedimax urine sediment analysers- Bruker Maldi-TOF- Tutela monitoring systems- Bactec and BacT alert blood culture systems- Class I and II MSC's - Cepheid GeneXpert- BioFire Torch Array

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

• Achieved a progressional promotion following completion of the IBMS Certificate of Competence, which I completed in half the recommended time (6 months). Achieved HCPC registration and I am an active IBMS licentiate member.• Experience working in Category II and Category II laboratories. Experience with troubleshooting and maintenance of laboratory analysers, (e.g., Sedimax urine sediment analyser, Bruker MALDI‑ToF, Tutela monitoring systems, Bactec and BacT alert blood culture systems, Class I and II MSC's and various automated PCR systems).• Use of other technical laboratory equipment and software (LIMS, Microsoft packages).• Attended training and development courses including ‘Effective communication’ and ‘Leading my first team’.

Southampton Airport

• Responsibilities included upselling of high profit items to increase sales, supervision, and training of new staff, maintaining high levels of customer service to ensure customer satisfaction. • Also was responsible for stock replenishment, serving customers and managing my time efficiently to ensure smooth service. This role often required lone working or working within small teams.• I left this role to return to university for my final year.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• This role was taken alongside my university studies, adding to my hospitality experience, and helping me improve my time management skills by balancing work and university. • Responsibilities were centered on customer service, preparing, and serving drinks to customers, training of new staff, maintaining the cleanliness and organisation of the bar including replenishment of stock and displays to maximize attraction and functionality of the bar area, money handling, front of house duties including greeting guests and teamwork with other bar staff and members of the waiting staff.• I left this role to focus on my summer university exams.

Southampton, United Kingdom

• Trained at this restaurant as a waiter where I developed my customer service skills, served customers, took orders, cleaned, and relayed tables. I then took opportunities to gain experience on the bar until I was able to the run the bar alone and supervise other staff members.• This role taught me composure under pressure, time management and organisational skills (e.g., maintaining stock and flow of service), responsibility of customer satisfaction and for opening and closing the restaurant. I was also responsible for training new staff regularly.• I left this role due to the closure of the restaurant.

Bristol, United Kingdom

I took up this job soon after moving to Bristol for university. This was a straightforward bar job, working long hours, serving nightclub customers. I left this role due to the unsociable hours which began to affect my university performance.This job involved: - Dealing with difficult scenarios, due to the nature of nightclub work customers can become violent and abusive, something I quickly learned to deal with. - I was sometimes asked to do promotional tasks such as obtaining email and contact information from customers in exchange for discounted tickets, competition entry and other incentives. - Usual bar work, serving customers, making cocktails and other drinks, staying organised on the bar, maintaining stock levels, stock control and replenishment, cash handling and customer service.

Southampton

• Originally spent two weeks with New Forest Physiotherapy as a work experience student to gain insight into the physiotherapy profession which included updating of company forms used to obtain patient information.• I then took up a temporary Ad hoc role, updating and managing the company social media other internet-based tasks within the company, this included SEO optimisation of the website and setting up the physiotherapy online shop, selling everything from foam rollers to kinesiology tape.

Southampton, United Kingdom

This role was located at St. Marys football stadium and as an avid football fan, was a very exciting opportunity. I worked both match days and events. This was an important step for me into catering and hospitality jobs, which lead to further experience in the future. This job involved:- Setting up for christmas parties at the stadium, where guests were in the hundreds, requiring team work, with white glove service. - I also worked matchdays as a Hawker, whereby I would work as an independent vendor, making and selling various items. - I required the ability to work fast, efficiently and accurately as all money handling and calculations had to be done mentally. - I also had the chance to travel to the MK Dons stadium in milton keynes, where we trained their staff and proceeded to work a sell-out FA cup fixture against Manchester United.

Southampton, United Kingdom

- Till use and money handling, also face to face customer interaction/customer service.- Selling to hit KPI's including gel performance insoles and other key products- I regularly made it onto the top seller leaderboards for these KPI's which enhanced my selling capabilities, customer interaction and confidence- Stock take and stock replenishment- Training of new and prospective staff

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc (Hons), Biomedical Sciences, General, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Member of the UWE Medical Science Society, attending talks on the latest research at the university.

A Levels

Activities and Societies: Sports societies including football and badmintonAS Level: History, Critical Thinking A2 Levels: English.

Gcse, A*-B

Activities and Societies: Completed a Bronze and Silver level Duke of Edinburgh Award, Amnesty International Society member and Senior.