Meichen Lin Coffaro Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, CA, US

Sacramento, California, United States

• Manage up to 18 simultaneous implementation projects relating to one or more of the following disciplines industries: physical/material testing, food/beverage testing, or clinical testing
• Develop project plans based on the scope of work documents
• Serve as a product expert on QBench
• Hold frequent meetings with customers to provide guidance on the product, analyze and discuss their requirements and needs
• Document requirements, changes, etc. so that developers can execute
• Meet weekly with department leadership to planproject execution, discuss problems and solutions, discussany escalations, and proactively identify risks

Woodland, California, United States

• Perform quality inspections and quality testing on incoming raw materials, packaging materials, in-process materials, and finished goods.
• Manage the supplier approval program, and verify incoming certificates of analysis (COAs) and certificates of conformance (COCs) for incoming materials from existing suppliers
• Conduct monthly internal good manufacturing program (GMP) plant audits, monthly glass & hard plastic audits, and monthly safety walks.
• Inspect and verify pre-operational checks on the production lines before allergen changeovers and/or conventional-to-organic changeovers.
• Print and verify production labels for all production lines.
• Verify metal detector checks on all production lines to monitor critical control points and manage deviations.

Ripon, CA

• Calibrate and maintain laboratory equipment.
• Perform laboratory analysis, sample preparation, and maintain laboratory equipment following safety practices.
• Measured alcohol content, Brix, density, temperature, titratable acidity (TA), pH, volatile acids, residual sugars, absorbance, free sulfurs, total sulfurs, filterability, turbidity, and conductivity.
• Performed analysis of bottling tanks, storage tanks, and finished goods using instrumentation, such as Alcolyzer, CarboQC, autotitrator, densitometers, FOSS wine analyzer, turbidimeter, spectrophotometer, Y15 enzymatic.
• Provided daily maintenance and cleaning procedures to instrumentation, validated calibrations and standard reagents, and created standard reagents.
• Analyzed, collected, and provided data to winemakers, cellar, and bottling lines.

Stockton, California Area

• Used and manipulated micropipettors to safely and accurately transfer small volumes of liquids.
• Designed primers to successfully amplify and clone a known piece of DNA via PCR, and ligated DNA created via PCR into plasmid and transformed plasmid into bacteria.
• Analyzed PCR reactions using gel electrophoresis, gel purification, restriction digestion of PCR DNA.
• Induced expression of DMC1 protein (from T. vaginalis) in E. coli, and purified protein via affinity chromatography.
• Utilized SDS-PAGE, Western Transfer, and Western Blot to confirm successful purification of tagged protein, and EMSA to test DNA binding properties of TvRad51 and TvDMC1 proteins.
• Prepared RNA for reverse transcription and real-time PCR.

• Collected data from subjects, created a dataset for analysis, and analyzed dataset using Excel.
• Analyzed data for a Limenitis lorquini study regarding forewing length and location the in west coast region.
• Utilized a Sedgewick-Rafter counting cell and a compound microscope to analyze diversity, abundance, and density of plankton.
• Examined and dissected Romalea microptera to understand and view general insect structures.
• Identified mayflies, dragonflies, damselflies, walking sticks, leaf insects, grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, Praying mantids, cockroaches, termites, earwigs, stoneflies, cicadas, lacewings, beetles, caddisflies.
• Collected data on the bird community along the Calaveras River on the University of the Pacific campus.

• Used micropipettes to transfer small volumes of liquid reagents and to dilute stock concentrations of reagents.
• Isolated microorganisms using streak plating isolation method and measured concentration of cells using spectrophotometer.
• Used oil immersion techniques and microscopes to view microorganisms and their structures.
• Performed gram stains to characterize bacteria and rapid identification of bacteria using Enterotube II®.
• Observed mutagenic effects of ultra-violet light on B. subtilis and S. maracescens.
• Transformed pBLUESCRIPT into E. coli and Mss1 linearized plasmid into Pichia pastoris, performed blue-white screening, and colony PCR, and performed ELISA to determine the presence of protein.

• Served as a peer educator and main point of contact for 30 third-year and fourth-year students in the McCaffrey Apartments and Greek Communities.
• Supervised resident assistants serving in the McCaffrey Apartments and Greek Communities.
• Advised residents in the McCaffrey Hall Government for event planning and resident feedback.
• Created, developed, and organized social and educational events on topics such as diversity and inclusion, and mastering independent living skills.
• Handled minor conflicts and mediated conversation between resident utilizing conflict training techniques.
• Organized documentation for room condition reports, apartment condition reports, and roommate agreements.

Stockton, CA, United States

Member of Phi Rho Chapter - University of the Pacific

Stockton, California

• Phi Rho Chapter - University of the Pacific
• Maintained communications with other Greek organizations on campus.
• Relayed and reviewed information within the chapter.

Stockton, California

• Phi Rho Chapter - University of the Pacific
• Documented and organized weekly chapter meetings for minutes.
• Recorded attendance at weekly meetings and events.
• Monitored fines for excessive absences from events and meetings.
• Respond to emails regarding absences, events, and meetings.

Riverside, CA

• Handled cash and check transactions with customers.
• Count money in cash drawers at the beginning and end of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
• Document inventory of products at the end of shifts to maintain accountability.
• Assisted staff with technical and customer service issues.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biological Sciences, Dean'S Honor Roll

Activities and Societies: Delta Delta Delta, National Residence Hall Honorary, Residence Hall Association

High School Diploma, 4.23

Activities and Societies: Associated Student Body, Mock Trial, California Scholarship Federation, National Honors Society, Red Cross, Make.