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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

• Supervise a team of Genetic DNA Analysts focusing in hereditary cancer. • Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) subject matter expert for Myriad's myRisk genetic data review. Also skilled in Sanger Sequencing, ABI, Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD), MLPA, and BART review. • Regularly train and educate teammates• Team lead for validation studies and unusual case investigations. • Brainstorm and implement continuous improvement projects.• Collaborate with cross functional teams on a regular basis - informative tours, sample investigation, process improvement, etc. • Write and edit Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and supportive materials.• Monitor and investigate current and overdue team WIP (work in progress)• Create and maintain SharePoint pages• Perform job interviews for potential candidates. • Head Non-Conformance and/or Corrective and Preventive Action plans.

Salt Lake City, Utah

•Analyze genetic data using Sanger Sequencing, Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD) to identify genetic mutations that predispose patients to specific cancers. •Order and utilize orthogonal data (MLPA, tPCR, LRPCR, OCS/MSR, uArray) to confirm mutations. •Communicate with Lab Directors, Clinical Data Scientists, laboratory personnel, Customer Service and Reporting to insure the most accurate and timely results for the patient. •Analyze routine contamination checks.•Identify, investigate, and assign unusual case tasks. •Active member in the Lean Council by actively submitting ideas, discussing and investigating submitted ideas, organize and present educational events to the department, create an idea board to act as a communication and interactive tool, and inspire colleagues to become more engaged with Lean thinking. •Volunteer as an active member on the Green Team by educating and inspiring employees to be more green in the workplace and at home.•Create training materials, resource guides, and an organized timeline with a team of supervisors for guidance and structure during training to all myRisk trainees/analysts.•Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for myRisk review and organize/present trainings with Lab Directors for training the rest of my team. •Attend and watch presentations for continuing education specific to cancer and other hereditary diseases. •Remain cross-trained in previous department to assist when needed.

Salt Lake City, Utah

•Prepare patient records by insuring all needed paperwork and data is included, perform demographic checks, identify and investigate any errors, and generate hereditary cancer test results for clinical review.•Utilize my strong analytical skills and attention to detail to insure accuracy of reports and investigate any issues found by communicating within my department and partner departments to be able to report results in an efficient and absolutely accurate manner. •File and mange patient master files to assist with test tracking and timely result distribution. •Actively participate in continuing education, additional tasks and training, and exception handling. •Create reference guides to act as supportive material to the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) to aid in training and maintaining employee's knowledge, as well as providing input on revising SOP's. •Train new employees on company values, daily tasks (following SOP's), and additional tasks. •Participate in implementing Lean principles to improve our processes by suggesting new ideas at the weekly Idea Board Meeting, leading meetings, testing ideas discussed, and providing quantitative and qualitative feedback to the team to determine if the idea presented should be implemented or not. •Volunteer to serve as an active role on a variety if committees including the Fall Team Building Event, Community Board, Party Planning Committee, and the team responsible for organizing and ordering furniture for the new office space. •Participate in the weekly book club meetings reviewing content in books that provide concepts that are found very useful in the workplace (books read include: Crucial Conversations and Lean Production Simplified).

Depere, Wi

•Provide exceptional customer service by assisting customers in person, email, and/or phone to provide them with great detail of all of the lab services offered and results.•Regularly multi-task in a fast paced environment by prioritizing and using time wisely to insure steady and efficient flow of sample preparation and result distribution.•Responsible for many office duties including account maintenance, handling transactions, updating Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s), reference documents, and employee training.•Responsible for a variety of duties in the laboratory such as sample preparation/processing, scan feed and forage samples using Near Infrared Spectroscopy, quality analysis checks, and data entry.•Collect samples and reference data for HarvestLabTM3000, CalibrateTM, and internal usage and maintain the corresponding Excel files. •Monitor volume in order to make the judgement to call in part time/on call employees.

Algoma, Wi

Serve as an active role on our family farm growing corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, and green beans. My responsiblities evolved as I matured and gained more hands on experience and education.

River Falls, Wi

Responsibilities included developing a service dog training program unique to the UW System, lead by students, serve as an initial team member for handling/ training the first dog admitted into the program, serving as a mentor for upcoming student handlers admitted into the program, and interviewed with my peers for a variety of press releases for newspapers, radio, and television.

Lake Elmo, Mn

Provided quality care to dogs and cats by handling, feeding, cleaning, administering medications, and monitoring general health and behavior. Communicated information to customers in person and over the phone to provide information about services provided and to insure trust for the care of their animals.

River Falls, Wi

Designed proposal for research grants and stipends, arranged methods of testing hypotheses, gathered information to further analyze, identify and solve problems that arose, calculated and interpreted results using Microsoft Office and SAS programs, and organized results onto a poster. Presented results at a variety of conferences including the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Wisconsin Science and Technology Symposium, UWRF Research Galas, American Society of Animal Science, Posters in the Rotunda, and the Chancellor's Advisory Council.

River Falls, Wi

Performed routine operating responsibilities for beef cattle, hogs, sheep, and poultry including feeding, cleaning, operating machinery, weighing animals, vaccinating, breeding, selection of replacement/cull stock, record keeping, and moving animals in a humane manor. Helped organize, set up, and assist with livestock sales, workshops, and classroom laboratories hosted at the farm.

Sturgeon Bay, Wi

Provided exceptional customer service, specializing in animal feed and care supplies. Train new employees on properly using the different operating systems, aiding customers in person and over the phone, and educating them on products offered.