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Newark, De, Us

Newark, De

Newark, Delaware, United States

Quality Assurance and Quality Control for In Vitro Medical Device Manufacturing.Chair of the Change Review Board for commercial products.

Newark, Delaware, United States

Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Administrator for over 900 Reagent and Calibrator products. Business Analyst working with SampleManager application by ThermoFischer. In Vitro Medical Device Manufacturing Quality Control testing data management. Assisted over 100 users in processing and entering data from raw material, in-process, and finish product release testing from 5 instrument platforms. Build new and support existing application setups for product testing entry and report generation, and Certificate of Analysis and Table of Assigned Values generation. Maintain instrument data extractor macros using excel VBA and FTP. Support instrument software upgrade validations. Manage LIMS standard operating procedures and user accounts.

Technical Operations, In Vitro Medical Device Manufacturing Troubleshooting.Performed experiments with Siemens Atellica CH, Dimension Vista, and Dmension instruments to support product manufacturing and development. Assisted biochemists and team members with product troubleshooting and investigation.

New Paltz, New York

Coordinated and executed preparation for wide variety of chemistry laboratory courses, ranging from General and Organic to Analytical and Biochemistry. Specifically: General, Organic, Analytical, Physical, Instrumental, Biochemistry, Inorganic, Environmental, and Polymer.Prepared solutions/dilutions, performed laboratory calculations, tested experiments, maintained instruments and equipment, oversaw hazardous waste management, and streamlined order and organization of laboratories. Managed chemical reagent and equipment inventory and organization. Senior assistant who oversaw and managed 6 student assistants and their work flow. Extensive use of Excel for department budget and student assistant hour record-keeping.Created and consolidated preparation manuals for individual laboratory courses. Oversaw successful transfer of departmental chemical inventory from CISPro to Quartzy computer system.

999 Bay Street, Staten Island, Ny

Assisted veterinarians with canine and feline patients during exams as a room tech. Provided support to technicians and veterinarians for every-day procedures, exams, x-rays, and the occasional surgery.In charge of intake and care of animals boarding at the hospital. Maintenance of dog and cat hotel and general house-keeping. Performance of ear cleaning and medicating, nail trims, and anal-gland expression. Experience with the following: Giving patients fluids subcutaneously and maintaining IV catheter lines. Medicating patients and assisting with treatments. Drawing blood for glucose levels and various other tests and use of in-house lab equipment. Setting up for and taking x-rays. Assisting with sedation, intubation, and anesthesia.Experienced with the IDEXX Cornerstone computer system for veterinary hospitals.

614 Broadway, Staten Island, Ny

Assisted Zoo's Veterinarian and Head Technician with day to day care and maintenance of hospitalized, quarantined, and resident exotic animals in addition to general house-keeping and computer work.Examples of responsabilities and jobs performed: - Feeding, vaccinating, treating, and medicating exotic and large animals- Manual x-ray film development and x-ray taking technique for exotics, sterilization with an autoclave, and anesthesia dart gun procedures- Processing fecal samples and screening for parasites - Assisted with surgeries, anesthesia, and necropsies- Computer work with MEDARKS

Arlington, Ma

Observed surgeries, client consultations, x-ray and ultrasound procedures, and business and health care management practices for a small animal veterinary clinic Assisted with routine procedures such as animal restraint, nail clipping, ear cleaning, anal-gland expression, sub-cutaneous and muscular injections, vaccinations, blood sampling, blood pressure and heart rate monitoring, and dental cleaning.

Medford, Ma

Organized and maintained an extensive collection (over 12,000) of DVD, VHS, and LD films. Point of contact for students, faculty, and staff in retrieving films for loaning, setting up media equipment for classrooms and resolving technical difficulties.

Psychopharmacology Lab, Tufts University

Assisted in experimental procedure to model social-stress induced depression in female rats. Focused on dopamine levels after cocaine challenges and chronic social stress, and the effects of the antidepressant drug Fluoxetine on signals of depression.Employed social defeat stress procedure for rodents with experimental intruders and lactating dams. Performed saccharine preference testing, estrous cycle determination through vaginal swabs and Geimsa staining, data entry and statistics, perfusion and rodent brain collection, and brain slicing with microtome and cryostat.Mentors:https://ase.tufts.edu/psychology/people/miczek/https://www.linkedin.com/in/akiko-shimamoto-278a7226Project Links:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3684960/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21638221

Cambridge, Ma

Assisted in optimizing a high-throughput screening assay for identification of novel therapeutics specific for treating cognitive impairments in autism. Specifically, the project looked at the difference in gene expression of murine Fragile X Syndrom model neurons, either cultures or extracted from embryos.Followed protocols involving immunocytochemical staining of neurons (by hand and automated high-throughput plate washer), tissue culture, immunofluorescent automated imaging by microplate stacker, image analysis and data analysis. Independently executed manual synaptic puncta analysis on subset of images. (Synaptic puncta are clusters of synaptic proteins labelled with antibodies raised against various synaptic marker proteins.)Lab Link:http://bearlab-s1.mit.edu/BearLab/index.htmlMentor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asha-bhakar-75280515Project Links:http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-neuro-060909-153138http://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-015-0061-9

Staten Island, Ny

Performed stereotaxic surgery to implant electrodes into the rat hippocampus, immunohistochemistry and nissel staining. Learned intraperitineal injection technique. Froze tissues with liquid nitrogen, perfused and removed rodent brain for research (rat), used vibratome for brain sectioning, mounted and cover-slipped samples.

Staten Island, Ny

Observed cranial ultrasounds of premature infants, auditory brainstem responses (ABR), measures of visual attention regulation, and neonatal neurobehavioral exams at Richmond University Medical Center, NICU. Helped with, documented, and coded various tasks developed for each age group to study specific developmental changes and provide useful data for statistics and experimental results. Used the ManGold INTERACT program to mark certain important qualities of behaviors observed during the tasks.

Staten Island, Ny

Supervised 40 high school tutors to ensure correct implementation of the reading improvementprocedures. Responsible for check-point testing and attendance paperwork.Collaborated with Lead Teachers, Tutors, and Students to ensure the after-school program ran smoothlyThe READ Foundation organizes after school programs in elementary schools in all 5 boroughs that pair teen volunteers with struggling first and second graders. The teens are trained in the READ foundation’s specific teaching program for reading acquisition and work one on one with a student over a year to bring up their reading grade level. The Lead Tutor oversees all tutors to make sure they are implementing the program correctly, is in charge of attendance paperwork and testing, and works in collaboration with the Lead Teachers, the Tutors, and the Students to make sure everything runs smoothly.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: Tufts Ballroom Dance Team: Captain Fall 2009 - Spring 2010; Member since Fall 2008, Tufts Mountain Club.

Bachelor’S Degree, Biochemistry

Non-Degree Post-Baccalaureate, Pre-Veterinary Studies

High School, Salutatorian

Activities and Societies: READ Tutor, Set-design, Key ClubClass Salutatorian 2008, Graduate of Honors Program