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Memphis, Tennessee, United States

In addition to ensuring bulk ingredients are ordered to deliver on time for customer products to be batched for packaging, responsibilities included maintaining Inventory and ordering bulk ingredients to satisfy demand for the batching of customer products, verifying that all department data is accurately entered into the ERP system, ordering department supplies to ensure that tasks are accomplished safely and efficiently, preparing for audits, accompanying auditors, and following through with necessary post-audit actions, tracking liquid loss and meeting with colleagues to discuss opportunities for improvement, and taking ownership of the screening, interviewing, and hiring of new employees.

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

In addition to ensuring products were produced and packaged correctly, responsibilities included analyzing products on Anton Paar and Orbisphere instrumentation to ensure that specifications were met and quality was maintained throughout the production process, utilizing CMCKUHNKE instrumentation to inspect and confirm that package dimensions were within required specifications, auditing workstations to ensure that correct materials and codes were being used in production, gathering pasteurization data to ensure that products were adequately sterilized, maintaining and calibrating laboratory instrumentation, recording analytical data and notating details of discrepancies from product specifications on check sheets and in LIMS, and communicating intra- and interdepartmentally to foster efficiency and productivity.

Greater Memphis Area

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States

In addition to ensuring vendors were issued prompt and accurate payment responsibilities included entering invoices into Oracle, resolving vendor invoice issues, collaborating with the procurement team to answer vendor inquiries, and assisting with the training of new team members.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

In addition to assisting in the research and development of new laboratory methods and improving existing processes, responsibilities included extracting samples for analysis, performing precision and accuracy tests, running batches for parallel examination, performing linearity tests on mass spectrometers, loading samples on LC/MS/MS and GC/MS instrumentation for analysis, maintaining LC/MS/MS and GC/MS instrumentation, reviewing LC/MS/MS and GC/MS data, validating GC/MS instrumentation, participating in Certifying Scientist class, collaborating with fellow R&D team members, assisting team members when necessary, and attending team meetings.

Responsibilities included verifying sample identification, maintaining accurate chain of custody documentation, preparing reagents for extraction, ensuring validity of reagents used for extraction, ensuring all reagents used are optimally stocked, preparing samples for analysis via LLE, SLE, SPE, and dilute-and-shoot extraction techniques, operating Zephyr instrumentation, troubleshooting extraction processes, tuning GC/MS instruments, loading GC/MS instruments, utilizing Tecan Evo 150 and 200, and assisting the forensic evidence processing lab.

Responsibilities included receiving samples, opening samples, scanning samples into Horizon, aliquoting samples into test tubes for the screening process, ensuring that samples are stored in the proper location for further testing, ensuring that re-work and confirmation samples are poured and passed on in a prompt manner, preparing samples to be sent out, confirming the chain of custody, and acting as part of the QC process improvement team in the Forensic Immunochemistry department.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

In addition to Epilepsy research, responsibilities included maintaining an organized mouse colony, breeding mice, sacrificing mice, ear-tagging mice, genotyping Mice, collecting DNA samples from mice, performing DNA extractions, preparing PCR, running Agarose gels, coordinating mice with experiments, recovering mouse brains for cryopreservation, maintaining the mouse database, and maintaining HEK293T cells.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), General

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology, General