•Raising my children and running the household. •Head coach and program developer - Hastings Community Little League•Head coach - Vancouver Minor Hockey Association•Head coach - North Shore Inline Hockey Association•Career mentor and Science Consulting Vancouver Technical Secondary School•New-Build Parent Advisory Committee for Lord Nelson Elementary School•Entrepreneur: developed a renovation enterprise focused on providing clients with cost-effective improvements to boost their property's market value prior to sale.

•Responsible for creating and scaling-up system to expedite adjudication process while reducing cost. •Supported business development, marketing, and operational teams to build relationships through new ideas, proposals, and delivery. •Co-developed and delivered a multi-national research exchange program for premier researchers with international research institutions and government agencies. Result: my work led to the receipt of $14M funding in the annual Canadian budget (2016). •Business development: Enhanced new business and fostered accelerated funding growth for each portfolio. Largest growth from $15k to $4M. •Increased formal commitments from key opinion leaders by 400% •Managed peer-review process for largest non-governmental funding program in Canada with a team of 22 PhD consultants; from recruitment, remuneration, skill development / training, and evaluation.

• Drafted detailed program assessments for 130 Accelerate scientific proposals in French and English; including evaluation of their rationales, objectives, methods, time-lines, personnel, and budgets.• Assessments surpassed client’s expectations for delivery-time & quality.• Created and maintained an external collaborative network of scientific experts across many disciplines.

• Evaluated biological therapeutic projects through data analyses. Explained pharmacological data within detailed reports and provided recommendations for advancement of drug development programs.• Trained surgical techniques and monitored surgeon method development.

• Pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, safety & efficacy studies on biological & small molecule therapeutics. • Biological agents including peptides and antibodies (3H and 14C radio-isotope labeled).• Analysis software: PK Solutions & WinNonlin; Graphing software: GraphPad & SPSS.• Established in vivo team capacities ranging from personnel hiring / supervision, PK/PD development, behavioral monitoring / testing, and surgical model systems.• Strengthened in vitro team through personnel hiring/supervision & developed new bioanalytical methods.• Acquired high-quality robust data supporting project advancement decisions for our commercial arm. • Successfully transitioned early-stage cardiovascular & neuroscience biologic project to pre-clinical status.• Accurate and timely completion of study protocols, study reports, & standard operating procedures.• Scientific expertise in neuroscience, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal disciplines.

• Analyzed patient brain and plasma samples that led to two publications on unreported disease abnormalities in schizophrenia, major depression, and bipolar disorder.• Evaluated prescription medication efficacies (mood stabilizers, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics) on normalizing biological psychiatric disease markers in patient brain and plasma samples.• Published an invited chapter on ‘Signal Transduction Pathways in the Pathophysiology of Bipolar disorder’.

• Analytical neurochemistry, molecular biology, radio-ligand binding, and genetic approaches applied toward neurodegeneration & neurodevelopmental in vitro & in vivo brain energy metabolism studies.• Elucidation of mechanisms of action for currently prescribed neurological therapeutics.• In vivo neuroscience efficacy studies for small molecule and dietary therapeutics.• Demonstrated innovation, strong analytical skills, & leadership qualities in lab & leadership positions.• Fostered 5 distinct open-dialogue collaborative projects with leading academic research groups across America. Our studies generated publications in leading journals and have been spotlighted on BBC news.• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills demonstrated through numerous publications, oral presentations, lectures, and television interviews.

• Neurophysiology & cardiovascular physiology lectures to medical and nursing students. • Developed comfort & confidence in public speaking abilities & demonstrated capacity to teach others.

• Elected student advocate for concerns between faculty and students.

Created, built, and maintained database for the categorization of bus components that were sold to mass transit customers within the USA and Canada.