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Arlington, Va

Washington D.C. Metro Area

DEVELOPS AND MAINTAINS COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH CLIENT PARTNERS. Serves as the primary, on-site point of contact for clients and subcontractors leading to three, five-year contract renewals. Maintains a service and goal-focused culture through effective leadership approaches. Demonstrates the ability to navigate difficult situations with challenging client representatives. Gained the trust of corporate and client senior leadership by demonstrating commitment to core mission and showing the ability to interface effectively with representatives across multiple administrative functions including quality, safety, finance, adminstrative and security. DIRECTS OPERATIONAL TEAMS (ANALYTICAL SCIENTISTS AND SUPERVISORS). Cultivates a high collaboration / high accountability laboratory environment. Supports teams in problems solving to meet 100% TAT while maintaining low-variability sample analysis. Recruits, manages and develops staff. Coaches staff to collaborate and use team-based approaches. Develops creative staffing structures for operational efficiencies in a 24 hr / 7 day facility. Provides mentoring; supports professional development of staff and seeks to grow and promote from within. Maintains an extended and consistent record of high staff retention in a challenging work environment. Directs document preparation associated with reporting program progress to clients.ISO 17025 LABORATORY ACCREDITATION AND BIOSAFETY ASSURANCE. Key contributor in acquiring and maintaining ISO accreditation for U.S. laboratory. Applies quality assurance principles to laboratory operation for ISO accreditation. Participated in multiple external (A2LA) and internal audits. Ensures implementation and enforcement of biosafety regulations and procedures. Manages all MSDS documentation.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

PROVIDE DAILY TESTING MANAGEMENT on 2nd shift of 24/7 laboratory including analyzing environmental samples for presence of biothreat agents. Maintained consistent, detail-oriented approaches to projects in a collaborative, mission-oriented environment.VALIDATION STUDIES AND PROTOCOL DEVELOPMENT. Led studies to improve operational sample analysis. Implements new methods and technologies associated with immunoassays and real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Designs and implements protocols to improve quality, sample processing efficiencies and reliability of results. Contributes to critical thinking and problem solving strategies to ensure success through team building, knowledge sharing and managing change.SAMPLE PROCESSING AND DATA COLLECTION. Identifies more efficient testing approaches to multi-tiered biothreat analysis. These operational changes led to faster data collection and earlier notification of potential threat events. Reduced supply cost without compromising product quality by decreasing number of extractions and the number of daily immunoassay tests. LABORATORY UTILIZATION IMPROVEMENT. Manages the implementation of new procedures and workflow to increase sample processing capacity and capability. Supports government client by overcoming challenges related to lab space. Educates key stakeholders and helps to recruit prospective government partners. Identifies and plans to meet new requirements by hiring team members with the right expertise, acquiring the necessary supplies and composing new SOPs.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

MANAGED ANALYTICAL LABORATORY and conducted medical research. Supervised the acquisition of data collected through molecular analysis including PCR, electrophoresis, and microarray analysis. Made and analyzed biochemical measurements with UV/Visible and fluorescence spectroscopy. Directed analytical measurements with high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) technology. CONDUCTED LITERATURE REVIEWS, TECHNICAL WRITING AND EDITING. Identified and review current literature for applicable techniques to apply to primary study questions. Co-designed and implemented rigorous scientific protocols, prepared data for analysis and designed effective means for visualizing results. Supported Principal Investigator in preparation of journal articles for publication. Efforts resulted in the co-authorship of several peer-reviewed publications and abstracts submitted/accepted for presentation at national conferences.SUPPORTED FEDERAL RESEARCH GRANTS. Prepared progress reports for evaluation and discussion. Led the effort to collect analytical data supporting federal funding for clinical research in Emergency Medicine. SERVED AS SAFETY COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON and conducted lab inspections to ensure compliance with safety regulations.

Master'S Degree, Biological Sciences

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Biology