Melanie Melo Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

• Collaborate with CfB leadership team, identify stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Develop standard operating procedures, documenting workflow and process steps. Currently working on several workflows and improving them using Continuous Improvement methodologies and tools.
• Develop, implement and manage action plans for continuous improvement projects
• Develop tools and methods to track and report relevant key performance indicators (KPI’s)
• Develop documents and training of existing and new processes/systems to improve staff knowledge and capabilities.
• Coordinate internal and external meetings to maintain communication between internal and external stakeholders, and other involved participants

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Provide senior administrative support to the Dean, Director of Planning and the event planning teams such as providing project coordination and management of events and special projects, creating documentation for project implementation and undertaking research and data analysis. Provides administrative support for the annual business planning process.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Elected to provide leadership and administrative management to six committees that support Portuguese businesses, professionals, and students driving pride in Portuguese culture and fostering success. Plans, coordinates, and executes various events and programming for the Federation by connecting and liaising with internal and external stakeholders..

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• As of August 2020, promoted to Senior Project Manager and lead a group of student market researchers where they research ethical and environmental attitudes and behaviours and the groups findings were compiled in a.
• Preparing to apply for several grants to optimize product and process materials and conduct in-market testing of this minimal viable product.Promoted to a senior role to provide leadership and mentorship to four market.
• Led, managed, executed, and coached the project team advising on research, preparation, and completion of all grant documentation.
• Received commendation from Professors and Project Managers for excellence in research and communicating a well-organized and written grant.
• Created marketing content to engage and recruit students into Enactus and Spudlery.
• Prepared various grants to optimize product and process materials and conducted in-market testing.

Toronto, Canada Area

Evaluated academic journals to create a biodegradable formula, which resulted in reducing the cost per biodegradable spoon by 50%Conducted biodegradable formulations experiments to determine a suitable biodegradable formula

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Reported to the Program Manager and delivered project management and support to 15 interdisciplinary research projects valued between $15,000-$120,000. Planned, monitored and evaluated project plans/timelines, budgets.
• Assisted the Program Manager and Senior Program Managers with the preparation of research materials and templates (MS Office, Excel), grant applications and other administrative duties such as hiring students and.
• Initiated 10 projects funded by the internal and external grants.
• Forecasted 15 research and community project budgets and provided recommendations to maintain budgetary requirements and mitigate risks through monitoring and communicating solutions to keep projects within fiscal scope.
• Created a new user-friendly Ignite weighted scoring sheet for the 2022 season using a single spreadsheet and formulae for future funding obligations.
• Participated in identifying potential project threats and assisted in developing risk management plans for six resulting in a track record of on-time and within-budget execution.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Created and communicated daily, weekly and monthly installation scheduling and progress statuses with Microsoft Excel/Office and communicated project results to management and installers; decreased drapery deficiencies.
• Collaborated with field personnel (installers, other trades) to address and solve on-site issues
• Company revenue between 2017-2018 years increased by $30,000 by incorporating an effective scheduling database; resulted in an additionally $18,000 in profit.-Manage the accounting of the company by preparing invoices.

Toronto, Canada Area

Supervised and coordinated activities of staff who prepare and portion food and orders; Establish a work breakdown structure where staff are assigned duties for the day to efficiently and safely operate the restaurant Delivered superior customer service before, during and after high-volume, fast-paced operations such as assisting in the selection of meals.

Mississauga

• Assisting in the development of a paper based sensor using a FRET pair involving three species (donor, acceptor-donor and acceptor)
• Experimentally collected data from energy transfer assays (FRET) using isolated monovalent quantum dot-nucleic acid conjugates as donors and oligonucleotide probes as acceptors
• Conducted calculations and binding capacity analysis on donor-acceptor pairs; synthesized water soluble quantum dots and nanoparticles, preparation of paper assays
• Quickly learned laboratory techniques and scientific methods to provide assistance to the graduates at Chemical Sensors Group
• Experience includes the following: synthesis and purification of oleate-coated and water soluble UCNPs; isolation and purification of monovalent QD-nucleic acid conjugates using magnetic beads and fluorescent studies.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Experimentally performed studies to quantify the gene and protein expression of neuropilin, klotho and sirt1 residues in ins1 and min6 cells and its influence on pancreatic inflammation
• Supported laboratory work for the above project includes mammalian cell culturing (ins1 and min6), fluorescent studies using fluorescent plate readers, direct/indirect ELISA studies (using neuropilin, klotho and sirt-1.

Business Administration, Project Management, 3.96

Activities and Societies: Enactus George Brown

Hbsc, Analytical Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Pre-med club, UTM Vietnamese Student Association and Erindale Society of Chemical and Physical SciencesStudied.

Honours Bachelors Of Science, Biology/Biological Sciences, General And Chemistry

Throughout my undergraduate career, I have studied a variety of courses in cellular and molecular biology, organic synthesis, analytical.