Microbiology Laboratory Analyst U.S. Food and Drug Administration, July 2003 - Current Analyze outbreak and high priority samples such as produce and environmental swabs Maintain and troubleshoot VIDAS equipment Collaborate with other analysts for complex analyses such as cosmetic and medical products Trained new analysts on Microbiology laboratory methods, and volunteered for multiple national training classes held in duty station. Assisted CSOs on outbreak assignment to collect environmental samples from food processing firm Assisted CSOs and medical product analysts to collect environmental samples from compounding pharmacies Participated as part of inspection team for multiple domestic drug and medical device manufacturing firms Volunteered to be a part of international inspection team for drug manufacturing firm Participated as part of Salmonella real time PCR method development group, Listeria method validation team, E.coli study team, laboratory bacterial culture spike study, and multi-laboratory genetically modified Listeria culture study