Staff aide providing support to lead teacher in early childhood education. Assist in classroom activities for 3-5 year olds to get them ready for kindergarden.

Manage grant submission to Federal, State and Philanthropic funding agencies for members of JFK Partners in the Departments of Psychiatry and Developmental Pediatrics, School of Medicine. Fiscal management functions both pre-award and post award. Oversight of grant finances, invoicing and reporting. Assist with contracts for faculty with CU Medicine (formerly University Physicians Inc.) and Children's Hospital of Colorado.

Senior Adviser to a start-up Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Company engaged in the development and commercialization of innovative products for a personalized medicine approach for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes and celiac disease. Assisted with original company formation logistics, registration of company in federal small business administration and federal grant funding agencies and other duties.

• Research in the prevention and genetics of Type 1 Diabetes; worked with the detection of autoantibodies and genetic markers, including HLA, in a large patient population at the Barbara Davis Center; enrolled family members in clinical trials aimed at understanding the natural history of Type I Diabetes and strategies for mitigating or preventing disease. Research using molecular biology and genomics techniques including sequencing (Sanger and NextGen) and genotyping microarrays.• Managed day-to-day operations in a CLIA certified laboratory performing HLA typing and autoantibody assays for clinical trials. Trained personnel in safe lab practices. Wrote and posted job descriptions for research and administration personnel and student interns, select applicants, interview and hire. Sought compliance with CLIA, HIPAA and other federal and State regulations.• Responsible for the procurement of large equipment purchases and routine lab supplies, maintenance contracts, updating software, troubleshooting, and inventory control.• Financial management of research grants from various funding agencies for principal investigator. Responsible for pre-award activities, routing, multi-year budgets and oversight of grants, account reconciliation. Created annual progress reports for grant sponsors.• Experience with academic fiscal and funding policies; performed monthly payroll tracking, and funding distributions; proficient in PeopleSoft for Finance and Human Resources.

• Molecular Biology Core Manager, oligonucleotide primer synthesis, plasmid preps, cAMP assays, gel shift, PCR, and other molecular biology and tissue culture techniques • Mutation studies on transcription activation of CREB binding sites with somatostatin and adenovirus E2A promoters • Sanger sequencing of ICA69 gene, early marker for type I diabetes

Early research in transformation of tobacco callus with Ti plasmid, in Agrobacterium tumefaciens transferring chloroplast and atrazine resistance genes to tobacco plants. Maintenance of several strains of bacteria to nurture Ti Plasmid. Molecular biology of plant chloroplasts.

Undergraduate teaching, lectures and labs in all branches of botany, plant physiology, systematics, taxonomy, genetics, morphology and life cycles of all the phyla from algae through angiosperms.