• Leads a team of Clinical Molecular Technologists in a CAP and CLIA regulated laboratory by serving as first point of escalation, and creating and managing training plans, competency assessments, and weekly clinical workload.• Maintains accurate QA/QC documentation for verification of equipment, laboratory reagents and consumables, as well as laboratory SOPs and protocols to ensure CAP and CLIA compliance. • Consistently recognized for timely, high-quality completion of test results that aid physicians in detecting various gene mutations to diagnose and treat disease.• Communicates effectively with physicians, pathologists, nursing, and laboratory staff in order to provide excellent quality of patient care.• Responsible for execution and analysis of various clinical molecular laboratory techniques, including: DNA/RNA isolation from patient specimens (blood/bone marrow, FFPE tissue, and other body fluids), quantitative and qualitative PCR assays, and preparing and sequencing DNA libraries using Illumina Next-Generation Sequencing platform.• Maintains a supporting role in multiple ongoing clinical trials and research projects by reviewing study protocols and laboratory procedure manuals to ensure site compliance for specimen processing.• Assists in the development, validation, and documentation of new clinical molecular assays

• Responsibilities include performance of protocol, procedure, raw data, draft report, and final report audits for GLP-compliant studies which may be used to support worldwide submission under various EPA, FDA, OECD regulations. • Responsible for confirming that a final study report accurately depicts the methods and standard operating procedures, as well as the raw data of the study. • Responsible for assuring that facilities, equipment, personnel, methods, practices, records, and controls are in conformance with the appropriate regulations. • Also performs other duties connected with Quality Assurance Unit such as reviewing standard operating procedures, updating the Master Schedule, and performing internal audits.

• Recognized as team leader, trainer, and mentor.• Routinely beneficial as a team-member and collaborator by working thoroughly, setting up other employees for success, maintaining a clean work-space, and being an attendant to management.• Demonstrated ability to process large high-volume orders with high level of accuracy in a timely manner; experienced in operating professionally in high and low stress environments.

• Observed biomedical research that studied the effects of cytokine-based cancer immunotherapy. Participated in preparing samples to be processed, using gel electrophoresis, as well as creating and loading the gel itself. • Gained experience in pipette technique, organizing and preparing sequential samples, and further established the importance of lab safety and self-protection. • Introduced to the costs of operating the laboratory by helping prepare ‘home-made’ solutions to be used (e.g. buffer solution, gels)• Experienced using laboratory equipment such as: pipette, pH meter, centrifuge, fume hood

• Learned the basic principles of a photo-acoustic flow cytometry method of detecting tumor cells through observation, while learning the basic principles and theory behind the research. • Collected data, measuring the average size of the nucleus of a white blood cell with the fluorescent stain DAPI using a fluorescent microscope.• Experienced in the use of a high powered laser, hemocytometer, centrifuge.• Introduced to the importance of lab safety techniques such as: following all safety protocols, preventing cross-contamination, proper storage of chemicals, blood-borne pathogen risks/exposure.