Bridget Kinard Email & Phone Number

Des Plaines, Il, Us

Huntley, Illinois, United States

San Diego, California, United States

Fosters and maintains strong relationship with VIP account while providing proactive guidance to the custom team to streamline workflow, resolve issues and manage customer priorities resulting in over $1MM total sales in 2022.✔ Authors necessary documents such as Design History Files, develops Custom Price Quote (CPQ) frameworks for pricing of custom projects, qualifies incoming leads for custom queries from customers and the field team, and tracks quotes and orders on CRM and ERP systems such as SalesForce and NAV Dynamics.✔ Manages and coordinates custom product/project inquiries from conception to completion by identifying risks, resources, costs, and project timeline, contributing to the company's mission of providing legendary customer service. ✔ Plans and facilitates the production of custom products by initiating production orders, tracks pipeline progression of multiple products, and acts as key representative and project manager for custom product contracts with VIP customers.

San Diego, California, United States

Served as a key technical expert in support of company product, quality improvements and cost-saving initiatives while managing a small team responsible for maintaining non-inventory materials within the lab.✔ Recognized for developing a new non-inventory material management system which increased reorder request accessibility for lab personnel and increased reordering efficiency resulting in reduced overhead.✔ Project team member for the process improvement initiative addressing documents with numerous typographical, formatting, and branding errors. Personally updated and corrected 54 of the 81 documents within one week, enabling the larger project effort to be delivered on time.✔ Spearheaded and implemented CAPA improvements in and around oligonucleotide storage freezers in response to the loss of three oligonucleotides resulting in a scrap totaling $27,721.84.

San Diego, California, United States

Responsible for sub-assembly formulation, raw material prep and processing, quality control testing, reagent and component formulation, and in-process testing.✔ Wrote and designed an SAP transaction manual with step-by-step instructions used and referenced by new hires and current employees in response to the lack of ERP system training within the company.✔ Supported bulk, clinical, and commercial kit reagents, according to SOPs and work instructions, and rapidly achieved subject matter expert status. ✔ Awarded non-inventory material and special project ordering responsibilities allowing larger project efforts to delivered on time.✔ Collected, maintained, and forwarded detailed, accurate device history records in a timely manner.

San Diego, California, United States

(Contracted to work for Grifols)Responsible for daily manufacturing functions, including database entry, data analysis, coordinating orders into daily schedule, inventory management, quality sampling, and summary results✔ Performed and supported complex reagent filling according to SOPs and work instructions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic which provided integral data on the site’s ability to produce one million COVID-19 assays per year.✔ Collaborated to cultivate a culture of process improvements, with attention to 5S, compliance with cGMP, quality, and safety regulations resulting in 5 locations within the lab achieving 5S status.

Norfolk, Virginia Area

Deployed grossing functions in compliance with company policies, regulatory and client requirements, technical support, and assisting in training as needed.✔ Trained and mentored new technicians to ensure compliance comprehension and understanding of regulatory requirements to underscore performance.✔ Leveraged Novopath to manage accession data and maintained knowledge of data privacy best practices and regulatory adherence enabling the project to be delivered on time.

Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Detailed Development: ★ Engaged and drove effective communication between crew and dispatch including status updates and requests for additional resources.★ Lead team as attendant-in-charge (AIC) and key decision maker; transferred primary patient care to appropriate providers.★ Updated, proofed, and monitored electronic patient care reports (ePCRs) and submitted reviewed/finalized reports to billing.★ Provided dignified and effective customer service and patient care including but not limited to taking vitals and providing life-saving interventions, while safely transporting patients to appropriate destinations.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Detailed Development: ★ Selected via interview process; acted as Project Manager for an observational study focused on developing baseline data of invertebrate populations supported on the Shedd Aquarium grounds; managed inventories, ordered supplies, and organized lab.★ Collected, preserved, and identified 1000+ specimens based on family and morphospecies when applicable.★ Developed integral laboratory skills such as advanced data entry, statistical analysis (MS Excel), multi-tasking, compliance review, etc.

Master Of Biotechnology, A Professional Science Master’S Degree Program

The Master of Biotechnology: A Professional Science Master’s degree program at CSUSM uniquely combines technical, scientific and MBA-level.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biological Sciences, General

Activities and Societies: Intern at the Shedd Aquarium, President of the DePaul Irish Society 09/2014 – 06/2016