A former creative agency I ran as a partnership, working with SMEs on their brands, marketing and websites.

I created features, news, spotlights and Q&As for Ireland's Project Management accreditation body. The interviews, features and news articles went out in both the regular print magazine and the IPMI website.As well as getting to interview some of Europe's top CEOs and business leaders and writing features on the latest project management trends, I learned loads about the business climate across Europe.

I was the editor of the Edition and helped design and run a magazine for Ireland's largest student population. I had a lot of fun setting up and running the website along with designing and coming up with content for the print Edition every fortnight.

In charge of news section, news selection, article delegation, sub-editingNews and feature writingLayout and design work

Copy/editing, proof reading, feature writing and fact checking. I was also involved in magazine design using Photoshop, Indesign and other Adobe applications and copy editing via Microsoft Word.

My time was spent working on a project utilising a soluble anti-angiogenesis protein in the treatment of brain tumours. I worked independently on lab work and as part of a team, participating in lab meetings and submitting new ideas on lab management. I mastered many techniques including virus culture and monitoring of mice models and worked in aseptic S1/S2 safety level conditions.Bacterial Work: - Bacterial media/agar plate preparation - Sterile handling of bacteria - Electroporation/Transformation of bacteria - Plating/streaking of bacteria on agar plates - Plasmid purification from bacteria (mini to maxi prep) - Restriction digestion of plasmid DNA - Agarose gel electrophoresisMammalian cell culture and lentivirus production: - S1/S2 cell culture - Aseptic culture of mammalian cells (HeLa, 293T) - Lentiviral vector production and harvest in 293T cells - Lentivirus concentration - Aseptic and S2 level handling of concentrated virus stocks and virus infected mammalian cellsAnimal Handling: - Proper handling of Vmdk mice - Aseptic isolation of bone marrow from Vmdk mice - Assisted in tail vein injections of Vmdk mice - Assisted in a large scale animal study investigating novel therapies for glioblastoma - Ability to recognise neurological symptoms in Vmdk mice due to brain tumor formation - Isolation of brain, lung, and spleen from Vmdk mice - Correct processing of fresh and frozen tissue and tumour specimens - Frozen sectioning (5 micron) of brain and tumour tissue - Histological staining and analysis of brain and tumour tissue (H+E stain)