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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

-Manage over 200 volunteers -Find, meet, onboard, and maintain partner relationships -Schedule, communicate, and market classes in the local community-Teach classes and lead group coaching sessions regarding financial education-Set, monitor, and analyze yearly goals for funding

-Supervised team of 7 people, scheduled tasks in lab, held and led weekly team meetings, conducted evaluations and competency checks. -Trained all new hires and created wet and dry lab manuals as training resource. -Diagnosed problems and inefficiencies with robots and coordinated with experts for repair. -Authored and edited SOPs to reflect any new changes. -Reported lab mistakes via incident forms and remedied issues. -Decreased rate of sample failures by troubleshooting… Show more -Supervised team of 7 people, scheduled tasks in lab, held and led weekly team meetings, conducted evaluations and competency checks. -Trained all new hires and created wet and dry lab manuals as training resource. -Diagnosed problems and inefficiencies with robots and coordinated with experts for repair. -Authored and edited SOPs to reflect any new changes. -Reported lab mistakes via incident forms and remedied issues. -Decreased rate of sample failures by troubleshooting and auditing processes. Show less

Houston, Texas Area

Analyzed ancestry and clinical samples, uploaded samples to database, effectively prioritized VIP samples, performed manual gender checks, communicated status of samples, completed lab audits, trained other analysts, created QC process for SNP clusters to improve quality and consistency, and coordinated with Illumina engineers and employees to fix machines and troubleshoot data issues.

Houston, Texas Area

7/17 - 2/18: DNA EXTRACTIONS: Performed DNA extraction, prepared reagents, operated machinery, prepared dry swabs2/18 - 7/20: MICROARRAY: Amplified, fragmented, precipitated, resuspended DNA in preparation for Bead Chip staining, coating, and scanning

Houston, Texas Area

Experimented with Drosophila melanogaster at all life stages (pupal, larvae, and adult) with the goal of further understanding the morphological scaling in Drosophila melanogaster with a team of about 10 other people.

Houston, Texas Area

-Directed staff of 17 Resident Advisors overseeing 500+ student residents-Acted as a project manager overseeing events, deadlines, and projects-Wrote and submitted legislation that brought change to other Resident Advisors and residents on campus

University Of Houston

-Determined mutation in Drosophila melanogaster using classical genetics techniques (crosses between wild-type and mutated flies) and molecular genetics techniques (electrophoresis, analyzing DNA and proteins in Flybase and FinchTV)-Worked with a group that consisted of 4 other members-Wrote a 42 page manuscript about the research

Houston, Texas, United States

-Advised 30 students through 1 on 1 meetings, room inspections, and incident reporting-Planned, marketed, and executed 26 programs-Oversaw building of 1,000 and addressed security and maintenance issues during 15 and 24-hour on-call shifts