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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

South San Franciso

As a Process Development Engineer within the Translational Development R&D group, I worked at the interface of Automation, Clinical Operations and Quality Assurance. The overarching goal of this position was to maintain and improve the automated and manual biological sample processing in a state-of-the-art CLIA/CAP/ISO certified clinical NGS laboratory..

San Francisco

Working as a Laboratory Automation Technician at a startup like uBiome meant that I was working very hard to not only keep the robotic fleet for NGS sample processing running but to also delve deep into technical debt. In addition to repairing and IQ/OQ duties, I quickly became the SME on the intricacies of our specific Beckman Coulter robots liquid.

Lion's Gate Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.

Lion's Gate Hospital biomedical department is a young group that is responsible for 6 additional sites including this one. This requires weekly travel by car, ferry and sometimes plane where we work as a sole charge or duo to triage critical maintenance and unforeseen emergencies. Every day I have to juggle corrective work, minor equipment purchasing.

Vancouver, Canada Area

An internship R&D project to design-build a new type of temperature and humidity sensor that resulted in a paid contract where I produced five iterations of the prototype device. The sensor was for a unique application of dynamically modelling the energy added to a unit of exhaled air by a ventilated patient. This approach would provide improved, objective.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Learned from a variety of mentors with over 200 years of biomed experience in the shop. Soft skills were emphasized such as communication with nursing staff, patient-staff etiquette and how to work in a large collaborative team on database of 1000s of medical assets and maintenance schedules. I was responsible for all infusion pumps from the Emergency.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

When I was hired Spinnakers was looking to transition from a staid, old-school brewpub to a more agile and higher throughput venture. This required a microbiology lab to ensure that the increase in production could be monitored with some easy-to-perform assays. Additionally, it needed to be relatively cheap and occupy a small space.While working on this, I.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

I worked as a stem cell researcher in the Choy lab with funding from a Summer Undergraduate Research Award and a MPS Summer studentship award. We worked toward the goal of reprogramming human fibroblasts to iPS stem cells carrying a germ-line lysosomal storage disease, Gaucher's. This was a new direction for the laboratory so I was focused on testing and.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I was honoured to work on a proteomics research project to detect adult granulosa-type ovarian cancer at an early stage. Defined by a single basepair mutation in FoxL2, this cancer sub-type was a selected for development of a GC-MS/MS Multiple reaction monitoring assay. Several ovarian cancer cell lines were transfected with normal, oncogenic and nonsense.

Biomedical Engineering Technology, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Microbiology And Immunology

Activities and Societies: Honours and Co-Op. Focused on proteomics, cancer and stem cell genetics.

Front End Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering