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Durham, NC, US

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Developed, maintained, and worked to continually improve the site training program
• Created, revised, and managed the design and development of training program content, instructional tools, hands-on exercises, and computer-based training
• Functioned as the site LMS administrator, entering training records and supporting LMS activities for the site as required
• Provided information to operations management on recommended training programs, trainee performance, and implementation/maintenance of competency-based on-the-job training (OJT)
• Determined, implemented, and maintained training schedules based on departmental workloads and information such as SOP issuance, curricula assignment, and new hires
• Conducted the site train-the-trainer program for certification of qualified trainers (QT)

Oxford, North Carolina

• Instructed 8th graders in science and 9th and 10th grade students in biology and honors biology
• Utilized a wide variety of teaching tools and methodologies, including lecture, large and small group discussion, labs, demonstrations, guest speakers, brainstorming, role playing, forums, films, and Powerpoint.
• Employed Canvas, Google Classroom, and Edmodo online instructional platform to administer course content, assess knowledge, and to connect and collaborate with students, instructors, and parents
• Served as head teacher and school representative on an ongoing collaborative community garden project between the school and a local church in Oxford, NC

Henderson, NC

• Instructed 11th grade first generation college-bound and high need students in honors biology
• Served as academic high school and college advisor and mentor for a subset of the 11th grade student population
• Utilized a wide variety of teaching tools and methodologies, including lecture, large and small group discussion, labs, demonstrations, guest speakers, brainstorming, role playing, forums, films, and Powerpoint.
• Employed Edmodo online instructional platforms to administer course content, assess knowledge, and to connect and collaborate with students, instructors, and parents
• Served as an Advisory Committee Member for the Vance Granville Community College Bioprocessing Technology Program

• Instructed 7th and 8th grade students in biotechnology and 6th grade students in career exploration
• Served as a mentor and cooperating teacher for an agricultural education student intern from NC State
• Lead the School Improvement Club
• Set up and conducted a job shadowing field trips to GlaxoSmithKline
• Applied for and received the Lowe’s Toolbox for Education Grant for school grounds improvements, including an outdoor classroom
• Served as a part-time project planner and developed agriculture and agriscience lesson plans for the 2012-2013 Durham Public Schools Encore! Middle School After School Program

• Directed the technical conduct, interpretation, analysis, documentation, and reporting of results of clinical and nonclinical GLP studies in a small, privately-held CRO
• Communicated directly with external company sponsors, study monitors, study directors, and principal investigators
• Assisted in the generation and negotiation of study budgets
• Generated study protocols, protocol amendments, protocol deviations, notes to file, and final study reports
• Ensured that studies stayed within budgets and negotiated costs for out-of-scope work requested by sponsors
• Followed-up with sponsors regarding outstanding invoices

• Led a proteomics-based ovarian cancer clinical biomarker discovery program
• Directed a subcommittee designed to oversee the development of in vitro diagnostic assay reagents for the screening of ovarian cancer
• Directed protein purification method development and technology transfer from an R&D GLP facility to a GMP manufacturing facility
• Managed the laboratory scale and pilot lot scale production of diagnostic protein reagents utilized in the development of multiplexed bead-based screening immunoassays for ovarian biomarkers
• Developed, optimized, and validated QC test methods (ELISA, SDS-PAGE, IEF, HPLC) for assessment of protein identity, purity, and functional activity
• Wrote and reviewed protein production, purification, and quality control test method work instructions and SOPs

• Managed six full-time employees, including interviewing, selection, job description preparation, professional development, and performance of yearly job performance appraisals
• Managed all group projects and was responsible for all project timelines and deliverables
• Acted as technical liaison between Trimeris and its corporate partner, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, for clinical and non-clinical pharmacological studies associated with Fuzeon, the first HIV fusion inhibitor and first.
• Member of the Trimeris-Roche Fusion Inhibitor Core Clinical, Clinical, and Non-Clinical Teams
• Identified contract research organizations, designed study protocols, generated Requests for Proposals (RFPs), negotiated cost structures, monitored outsourced nonclinical ADMET studies, visited study sites, and.
• Performed all nonclinical and clinical pharmacokinetic and toxicokientic data transformations, and compiled data for various sections of numerous regulatory document submissions to the FDA

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Managed two full-time employees, including interviewing, selection, job description preparation, professional development, and performance of yearly job performance appraisals
• Developed proprietary ELISA and HPLC bioanalytical methods and oversaw the technology transfer of those methods to contract testing facilities
• Assisted in the generation and compilation of data for regulatory submissions to the FDA
• Performed nonclinical and clinical toxicokinetic, pharmacokinetic, and specific immune function assessments
• Assisted in the non-clinical and clinical evaluation of an insulin pump drug delivery device (MiniMed) for use in the subcutaneous delivery of Fuzeon
• Assisted in the preparation of an NIH Phase I grant proposal and was named a Co-Investigator

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Managed two full-time employees, including interviewing, selection, job description preparation, professional development, and performance of yearly job performance appraisals
• Assisted in the generation and compilation of data for the IND application for Fuzeon, a novel inhibitor of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
• Developed, optimized, and validated bioanalytical methods in support of drug development activities
• Assisted in the writing of two SBIR Phase I grant applications and was named a Co-Investigator on both

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Initiated and monitored all preclinical studies associated with the drug development program for Fuzeon, a novel inhibitor of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
• Developed, optimized, and validated bioanalytical methods and high through-put microplate-based drug discovery screening assays

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States

• Developed reagents for proprietary immunoassays for a number of clinically relevant cardiovascular biomarkers

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Performed protein chemistry and monoclonal antibody characterization in the development of rapid medical diagnostic immunoassays

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Participated in all aspects of diagnostic immunoassay development, from generation of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to their use in ELISA and RIA
• Cultured cells in roller bottles and hollow-fiber bioreactors for internal use as well as for external customers
• Obtained master’s degree while working full-time

M.S., Biotechnology

Certification In Agricultural Education

B.S., Biology

Education record