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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Qiagen is a biotechnology company that delivers Sample to Insights solutions that enable customers to unlock insights from the building blocks of life - DNA, RNA and proteins. ● Manage cross-functional teams responsible for design development, verification and validation processes, manufacturing implementation, and supporting innovative products for service and NeuMoDx customers. ● Leveraged expertise, teaming, and collaboration skills to provide strategic technical leadership for Management and stakeholders, mentoring to peers, and system engineering support within a document-controlled ISO-14385 FDA regulated company

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

● Traveled to Robotics Supplier during Acquisition from NeuMoDx to Qiagen for design improvement development and technical knowledge transfer of product to stakeholders and managers● Developed and implemented a cross-departmental collaboration for a strategic testing approach to system production to improve output by 85% and increase FPY from 3% to 70% within 6 months● Authored reports documenting the results of design verification testing with input from Production, Service, V&V, Quality, and Regulatory Engineering teams● Analyzed large data sets from prototype wet lab experiments to identify functionality issues, performed root cause analysis, and provided solutions that were implemented under intense time pressure

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

NeuMoDx Molecular Diagnostics specializes in sample-to-result for molecular solutions with medium and high-throughput for molecular diagnostics. With True Random Continuous-Access, The NeuMoDx system is capable of processing Quantitative and Qualitative RNA and DNA tests. ● Lead a team of 14 direct reports during startup to acquisition● Increased production output by identifying points of congestion and applying process improvements● Spearheaded communication with robotics instrument supplier to improve and implement processes of troubleshooting including acquiring a prototype tool to reduce turnaround time of damaged supplies

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

● Led the execution of controlled fluidic activities compliant with FDA QS and IVDD/IVDR in collaboration with facility departments● Built and managed a team of 6 independent QC testers and engineers to develop and improve product workflow and output through data collection and analysis, deviation development, new work instructions, engineering changes, and change orders

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Greater Detroit Area

Cross-departmental Collaboration for Master's Thesis between Wayne State Medical School and Wayne State Biomedical Engineering Department Research Thesis: Chronic hyperglycemia is a known risk factor in type 1 diabetes (T1D) including pancreatic beta, renal and retinal cells. The transcriptional and tumor repressor, Thioredoxin-interacting protein (TXNIP), is upregulated in diabetes and by high glucose in various tissues. TXNIP binds to and inhibits the anti-oxidant capacity of thioredoxin, causing oxidative stress and cell death. This process plays a causative role in diabetic complications. We investigated if the TXNIP-promoter can be linked with a therapeutic gene such as insulin and induce their expression under diabetic conditions. This study characterized the TXNIP-promoter linked genes when co-transfected into adipose derived mesenchymal stem cells (ASCs). The results of the duel transfected ASCs with the TXNIP-promoter, PDX1 and insulin show a decrease in cellular apoptosis in ATP and MTT assays. This characterization study has important implications towards understanding the mechanism of the TXNIP-promoter’s cellular function and a future potential for reducing chronic hyperglycemia in diabetics.

Detroit, Mi

Detroit, Mi

Team training, positively motivating volunteers for events such as Light The Night, and the Regatta Cup. Interacting with medical professionals on the benefits and opportunities that LLS provides blood related cancer patients, and community outreach.

Royal Oak, Michigan

Developing database solutions using SQL and VBA, cataloging medical equipment, submitting returns for damaged medical equipment.

Flint, Mi

Qualitative and Quantitative Data analysis of Radio archives from the Hubble Space Telescope. Further investigation of these radio-loud quasars showed a clear bias towards compact morphologies as revealed by FIRST 1.4 GHz imaging and comparatively flat radio spectra. This suggests we are viewing more face-on orientations which prevent us from seeing absorption outflows. The cause for such bias within the HST archive is still unknown; however, it could explain the lack of radio-loud intrinsic N V absorption seen by Culliton et al. (2017). Alternatively, the quasar wind structure may be fundamentally different between radio-loud and radio-quiet objects. We used COS/G130M or G160M to obtain rest-frame UV spectra (1195 Å - 1250 Å) of 14 low-redshift SDSS radio-loud quasars which show lobe-dominated FIRST morphologies to distinguish between these possibilities. Intrinsic N V absorption was detected in 6 of our 14 quasars. This suggests the lack of detections in the archival study was a result of an orientation effect/sampling bias rather than to differences in wind structure between radio-loud and radio-quiet quasars. Interestingly, we find significant overlap in radio core fractions between quasars with and without N V detection. Quasars in our sample with N V detection span a range of core fractions from < 0.01 up to 0.89 while those without detected N V range from 0.04 up to 0.93. A laminar outflow with a small opening angle would be difficult to explain given this overlap in radio core fractions. Our observations suggest a clumpy, sporadic outflow is the more likely explanation.

Flint, Michigan, United States

Data Collection, Interpretation, and Analysis for Qualitative and QuantitativeBiology and Chemistry general laboratory skills

Master Of Science - Ms, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Biomedical Engineer with a focus in tissue engineering. Research Assistant for Dr. Lam in Cardiovascular Regenerative Mechanics lab.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: Chemistry Club, Croatian Fraternal Union, United States Civil Air Patrol Auxiliary