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• Develop, implement, and perform LC-MS/MS analyses and biological sample preparation workflows for quantifying blood-based protein biomarkers of neurodegeneration.

• Managed and mentored a five-person laboratory team in high-throughput cell culture, assays, data QC and reporting of oncology panels composed of 300 cancer cell lines for client compound profiling.
• Standardized QC criteria and established a system for tracking historic reference compound responses, resulting in enhanced data quality.
• Led team in an initiative to expand the portfolio of available cancer cell models for high content analysis proliferation and cell viability assays.
• Implemented troubleshooting strategies for assay failures reducing need assay repetition and ensuring on-time client report delivery.
• Developed and implemented a report status tracker and improved scheduling practices to optimize workflow and enhance efficiency.

• Lead the transfer of the Products department to a new site, ensuring a smooth transition through extensive planning, staff training, and documentation. Over $340,000 of physical inventory relocated.
• Revitalized lapsed Product department and portfolio of ~500 SKUs by leading independent projects including inventory reorganization, establishing QC and record keeping processes, expanding the product portfolio, and.
• Performed adherent and shake flask cell culture for GPCR-transfected mammalian cell lines including RBL, HEK, and CHO cell hosts for use downstream in product manufacturing.
• Produced membrane preparations products via nitrogen cavitation and validated new lots through radioligand binding and GTPɣS assays.
• Expanded and banked stable and ready-to-assay cell line products and validated new lots via FLIPR calcium flux and cAMP assays.
• Analyzed validation data to make recommendations on product lot release.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Performed lab techniques in molecular and cellular biology such as PCR, bacterial transformation, culturing bacteria, DNA and RNA extractions, and mammalian cell culture.
• Managed lab inventory tracking, stock replenishing, procurement, and liaising between the lab and administration and sales representatives.
• Aided in husbandry, management, and phenotypic characterization of transgenic mice colonies.

Conway, Arkansas, United States

• Expanded the genomic library of three-finger toxins found in coral snake venom through DNA extraction, PCR, purifying DNA from agarose gels, and DNA sequencing.
• Presented methods and findings at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.