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Utah, United States

Reno, Nevada Area

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Developed workflows, protocols, and procedures for 4 different clinical studies.• Executed project plans for 4 in-house clinical studies through initiation, tracking, trouble shooting, and closing of projects while adhering to budget, scope, and schedule.• Implemented the strategic and technical direction for the product and project team.• Identified experimental issues that delayed project and recommended appropriate action to be taken.• Managed time, budget, and resources including people and equipment to achieve project timelines and goals.• Trained employees and other researchers in process protocols and procedures.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Role as sequencing lab manager included following:- Proposed and Designed production sequencing lab.- Developed and Implemented all standard operating procedures in lab.- Optimized all reaction and robotic operational procedures.- Worked with AB 3730xl instrument and created new run modules.- Reduced time spent on sequencing by 50%.- Reduced company cost for sequencing by 80% per month.- Negotiated for price and ordered equipment and consumables.- Trained others to work in sequencing lab.- Designed reporting forms on Microsoft Word and Excel.- Worked with LIMS programmers to customize database interface.Role as RA4 included:- Gateway System Cloning into custom vectors- Restriction digests- Vector construction- DNA gel extraction and RNA extraction- Sybr Green and Taqman Assays for QPCR on AB 7900HT- Designed and ordered oligos. - RNAi development, testing, and analysis- Mammalian Cell culture for normal and cancer cell lines

Greater Salt Lake City Area

IT responsibilities of workstation repair, building and software installations. Administered Cisco VOIP phone system. Assisted in network maintenance as well as desktop maintenance and repair of the following: Telecom – Cisco Call Manager Servers, Unity Voicemail Server, Cisco 7965, 7960 & 7910 Handsets, 3 Fax Machines, 3 T1 Lines (1 VoIP, 8 Pots Lines, 1 Data)Desktops – 101 Total: 30 workstations, 12 servers, 59 unmanaged Instrumentation workstations. 11 Laptops campus-wide {Automation, Informatics, HR, Mass Spec, HTS, HyNet, etc.}. Flat Bed Scanners, 5 HP 8550 color printers, 11 HP 4100DN black and white printers, 26 workstation UPSs, 2 LCD ProjectorsServers – Clustered Exchange Servers, Print Services, Enterprise Anti-Virus Management, Enterprise Diskeeper Deployment, Vector NTi , Workstation and Laptop Imaging and Online Backup and Restore, Network Monitoring and AlertingApplications – Card Reader/Badge System, Building Monitoring {Temp, Power, Humidity}, Office Productivity {Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Adobe}, Sequencher, Vector NTi. OSs: Windows 98, NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Workstation & Server, Windows XP Professional and Windows 2003 Server

Columbus, Ohio Area

DNA sequencing with ABI 377 and 3700 sequencers; wrote and established protocols for shotgun subcloning; used Genotyper software to call genotypes and analyze genescan gels; used online blastn database searches; designed mutation screening assays; performed mutation screening analysis using Sequencher; designed multiplex genotyping reactions; designed and troubleshooted PCR reactions; performed plasmid preps using Qiagen columns; SSCP gels; ran agarose gels; designed oligos; bisulfite treatment of DNA for CpG island sequencing; maintained records of experiments; used of Microsoft Word, Excel and Access to design data tracking for customers; maintained and ordered lab reagents and equipment; tracked large lab projects such as HNPCC mutation screening. Taught workshops to university customers. Assisted university customers with PCR and sequencing needs and concerns.

Research Assistant IMade subclone libraries using partial digest and random shear techniques for cancer targets; ran agarose gels; PCR; plasmid preps using the AutoGen; maintained a record of experiments; proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel; managed equipment and reagents; designed and made oligos. Lab Technician II. Performed DNA sequencing on the ABI 377(Mac); made reagents and maintained a record of experiments. Was Day shift Lab Coordinator in charge of 7 people and coordinated the day to day activities for shift; maintained a working relationship with various researchers in the company; solved problems in the lab and with sequencing submissions from various researchers. Also, worked on new operating procedures, and identified ways to improve the lab operations.

Pmst, Biotechnology / Business

Bs, Molecular Biology