• Lead two major research projects that broadened our pathogen detection system’s capabilities from leafy vegetables to encompassing raw beef and chicken products, elevating our company’s profile in the food safety industry. • Serve as product manager and customer success representative for the beef and chicken testing products, where I developed product strategy and fostered relationships with the food safety directors of two major U.S. protein producers. • Key innovator in unconventional projects, such as achieving absolute quantification of bacteria and isolating parasites, due to being able to rapidly assimilate new scientific fields and pioneer new approaches in experimentation. • Collaborated with our mechanical engineers to innovate and design specialized tools for commercial microbiology labs, culminating in the filing of three new patents. • Authored five patent disclosures and three SBIR grant reports, distilling months of product development and data into articulate reports and figures. • Initiated and facilitated cross-industry communication, leveraging both private-sector and USDA/FDA contacts from conferences to advance strategic company objectives in a dynamic regulatory environment.

I've worked here on and off since I was 14, with about 5 years cumulative experience.• Primarily performed customer service via sales, but have also worked the cash register.• Performed numerous systematic organizations of the overstock room to ensure that any merchandise which had piled up or gotten tossed behind other things was visible to employees, or better yet, on the sales floor.• Learned about numerous varied subjects in order to answer questions all across the spectrum that customers came in having. Subjects include horticultural chemistry, insect control, metallurgy, auto engineering, construction, plumbing, electrical, snow management, landscape architecture, and more.

• Implemented multiple capital improvement projects (irrigation, land reclamation, more than doubling the capacity of the bush & tree nursery and increasing the financial efficiency of larger, multi-year investments in plants.• Slashed perennial attrition by ~60% YOY by leading reorganization and disease identification efforts• Deepened a critical supplier relationship by volunteering for seasonal organic agricultural work.• Contributed to extensive mechanical work, including troubleshooting and replacing broken irrigation lines, replacing a broken underground electrical conduit, wiring new circuits into a breaker, and restoring the ventilation system in a chicken coop.

Molecular work:• Investigated temporal transcription patterns in dopaminergic neurons to determine their similarity with circadian clock neurons in an independent project.• Became proficient at dissecting out fly brains for FACS (fluorescence activated cell sorting) neuron isolation.• Performed RT-qPCR on RNA extracted from very small populations of cells (<1000).Behavioral work:• Designed multigenerational crosses for RNAi knock-out experiments of different neuron populations in the brain.• Arranged flies of different genotypes into 96-well plates to study optogenetic induced changes in sleep deprivation behavior.• Used MATLAB for data analysis and visualization, later then self taught R for the same purpose.Maintained a detailed lab notebook of concurrent molecular and behavioral experiments.

- Chosen for 18-person cohort of college applicants with promise in research- Recipient of additional summer research grant to begin work as an undergraduate researcher- Took first-year biophysics seminar and intensive interdisciplinary lab rotation- Presented poster Bip Chaperone Promotes Mutant IGF2 Refolding, Street Lab- Presented poster Modelling Oscillatory Chemical Reactions and Quorum Sensing, Fraden Lab

-Aided technicians by helping and cleaning up after patients-Learned the mechanics of Nuclear Medicine, CAT, MRI, etc. from radiologists and technicians, as well as data analysis-From my personal interest, I connected with the radiation inspector for Massachusetts General Hospital who took me around with her one day to observe the logistics and physical chemistry required to handle ephemeral radioisotopes