Side-hustle producer of cherry wood bacon and alder wood seafood. Best bacon in the Bay. Sold local, word of mouth, hand to hand.

In charge of lab operations, personnel, and robotics for CLIA-certified SARS-Cov-2 Diagnostics lab at the IGI.-Streamlined sample accessioning, pooled extraction, and all lab processes to 10x sample throughput, reduce stress, and improve employee morale. -Designed dynamic and flexible schedules and work flows to respond to increasing and fluctuating demand. -Fostered relationships with stakeholders including Berkeley Fire and Police Departments and Cal Athletics in high stress environment.

-Designed archival system for sample storage, shaving hours of labor thereby increasing daily testing capacity ~20%-High throughput extractions with Hamilton robotics (Vantage & STARlet) and qPCR-Wrote SOPs for NP-swab and saliva based assays

•Wrangled open source data from websites and PDFs on on mortality, prescriptions, demographics, and health services.•Designed a pipeline to aggregate challenging zipcode - city relationships in order to aggregate zipcode data into cities.•Built a classification model that predicts the opioid public health risk in Massachusetts cities from open source data.

Using new statistical and computational methods to investigate lizard responses to climate and land-use change.

*Wet lab and bioinformatics*•Prepared libraries for reduced-representation genomic sequencing of 15 different species.•Ran bioinformatic pipelines to demultiplex samples, make alignments, and input files for population genetic and phylogenetic programs.•Tested biological hypotheses on speciation and adaptation, resulting in 4 conference presentations and 2 "best talk" awards.•Trained 4 researchers in wet lab / bioinformatic pipeline. *Fieldwork and training*•Designed an executed three collecting trips to Puerto Rico:•Collected genetic samples for three species in targeted locations across their range. •Managed and organized 9 undergraduates while collecting environmental and physiological data for lizards from different environments.

•Taught courses in Physiology, Introductory Biology, Ornithology, Animal & Experimental Physiology, Applied Phylogenetic Methods.•Mentored and advised undergraduate students on 14 physiology experiments from design & implementation through analysis and presentations.

•Participated in two international expeditions to Mexico and Ghana.•Organized, led, and executed field work in Puerto Rico.•Collected, prepared, and curated specimens for the Burke Museum.

STEM instructor for high school students transitioning to college.•Taught studying and research skills•Invited and organized guest lecturers•Designed biology education modules and field trips

•Received $2,000 in grants to investigate the ecology of a polymorphic toad. •Designed and conducted field experiments to quantify predation pressures.•Used glms, binomial logistic regression, and backwards model selection in R to determine what influences a predator's decision to attack.

•Expertise in radio-tracking, mammal trapping, and tropical field research.•Used proprietary web-databases to maintain and organize field data. •Daily collection and curation of spatial data for a dynamic team of researchers that included three professors, one postdoc, and four masters student's theses.