Role:Manages client projects from start to finish with a high level of expertise and high standard of deliveryMaintains management over multiple high priority and high visibility clientsAccomplishments: Part of multiple PMO Team initiatives:Team Capacity Analysis, Validation Plan Template Revisions, Cross Functional LEAN Team, PMO Checklists, Pre-Validation Checklists & Trainings Part of the Q2 Conversations Cross-Mentoring Program 2024Spotlight Award 2024Project Management Certification (CAPM) - in progress

Role:Managed client projects from start to finish; this entailed tracking project timelines, managing budgets, presenting project progress, coordinating the execution of projects with the lab team, and serving as the point of contact for all project-related communicationGranted management over multiple high priority clientsAccomplishments:Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification - 2022Initiated biweekly meetings within the Project Management Team to foster unity and discuss areas of improvement with Upper ManagementManagement Recognition: Focus on Customer Excellence 2023

Role:Performed duties of an Immunoassay Scientist and managed the day to day activities within the lab for a group of 8 Acted as the liaison between the lab (on site) and project management group (off site) while promoting proper communication between the teams Executed various lab productivity and transitionary initiatives, specifically with the lab relocation from Marietta, GA to Durham, NC in 2022Accomplishments:Successfully transferred client study methods and closed out the Marietta BioA Lab

Role: Performed immunogenicity and pharmacokinetic testing using ELISA and MSD-ECL bioanalytical platforms in an FDA regulated lab environmentValidated new methods, analyzed data, and worked within a team to complete ongoing client projectsAdditional Roles and Accomplishments:Established as a Pod LeaderLead Scientist on multiple new client method validationsPart of the Product Receiving & Inventory TeamLean Six Sigma White Belt certification - 2020Initiated multiple Project Specific Reagent Inventories Trained as a Lab Quality Control Inspector to assist with backlog of workPart of the Rollout Team for the lab's new IDBS LIMS systemTrained alongside Method Developers on protein conjugation and COVID blood processing procedures for clinical samplesAssisted with Project Leader and Project Manager tasks

Dr. Steve BosingerYerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University- Bosinger LabThe research in this lab utilized various Next Generation Sequencing and Immuno techniques to better understand the non-human primate genome and HIV/SIV pathogenesis, and more recently redirected its efforts towards COVID-19 research with vaccine development in monkeysLed the two-part pDC Project (pilot + large scale animal study) that was the first challenge experiment combined with long-term ART in the lab and included: implementation of the in-lab formulation of ART, introduction of various ELISAs, SOP optimizations, Prism and Excel analysis; ultimately, enhanced the lab through prior experience and eliminated outsourcingLed the two-part B-Cell Project (naïve B-Cell sorting + Ig Rep Seq) that included: SOP design and optimization, PBMC isolation, flow cytometry, panel optimization, cell sorting (MACS and FACSAria), FlowJo analysis, Ig Rep Sequencing techniques on important lineage animals, data presentations, collaborations, and final preparations for selected rhesus macaques to be sequencedOptimized both human and rhesus macaque lung dissociation SOPs to aid in COVID-19 research with collaborators at the beginning of the 2020 Pandemic

Dr. Mauricio A. MartinsHIV Vaccine Research Lab - centered around Vaccine Development with the rhesus macaque NHP model of AIDSLed the execution of assays and viral stock formulations along with the generation of data for our large, time-sensitive infant macaque AAV project at the CNRPC- funded and extended by the Gates Foundation in 2019Optimized an ELISA protocol for first-time use of rectal and salivary weck-cel sponges for antibody quantification in our lab that was employed in pilot projects and publicationsFormulated two different types of triple ART drug cocktail in-lab for intravenous infusions into our macaques at the WNPRC that kept viral loads down for monthsAs the sole Research Associate in this lab, I performed all immunoassays, made manuscript contributions, trained undergraduate students, and managed the labThe Martins Lab worked alongside the Watkins and Desrosiers Labs at UMObtained first and second author publications from this lab

Dr. Sarah F. BrosnanCEBUS Lab- Comparative Economics and Behavioral Studies in nonhuman primatesAt GSU's Language Research Center, I performed video coding research for various ongoing projects, helped with weekly fecal collections for hormone assays, assisted with data collection, and assisted with set-up/take-down of manual and computerized cognitive-behavioral tasksI also created and presented a poster to represent the findings of a current project at both the Georgia State STEM and Psychology Undergraduate Research Conferences in 2017Poster Title: Capuchins (Cebus apella) Show Coordination in Variable Reward Assurance Game

Dr. Manfred SchmidtAs an undergraduate, I completed a semester-long independent project that was aimed at understanding the neuroethology of certain crayfish speciesI gained leadership experience by spearheading the development of a project and poster that was presented for the Neuroscience Institute at GSUI also gained experience with crayfish husbandry, extracellular electrophysiology, data analysis using DataView and Signal Express programs, and basic laboratory techniquesPoster Title: Influence of Serotonin and Serotonin Antagonist on Pacifastacus lenisculus Aggressive Behavior and Neuronal Activity