Experience

Agios Pharmaceuticals

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Bioinformatics Associate

  • Sep 2021 - Present



University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2020 - Aug 2021

  - Working under Dr. Way Sung in the Bioinformatics Department. - Developed programs and work flows to better understand the evolutionary aspect of CRISPR-cas sites (PAM sites) across 41 different species. - Performed data cleaning with quality control on FASTA and other genomic files (>100K lines of data per file). - Ran large-scale data analysis of multiple species of organisms and produced statistically relevant graphical figures using R and Tableau for purposes of publication. - Contributed to writing and editing of a scientific paper. Show less



University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2019 - May 2020

  - Teaching assistant in the Bioinformatics department at UNCC for Undergraduate Bioinformatics Statistics (R programming) and Undergraduate Genomics Lab. - Assisted students in help sessions, in labs, and through emails. - Taught a range of topics including R/RStudio, statistics, DNA extraction, PCR, NGS platforms, etc.- Assisted professor in grading assignments, grading labs, maintaining web courses, and preparing laboratory for class activities, etc. - Assisted professor in accommodating students. - Class sizes ranged from 8-15 students. Show less

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2018 - Jul 2019

  - Working under Dr. Adam Reitzel in wet lab research with Nematostella vectensis, specifically in regards to HSF (heat shock factors). - Researching how heat shock proteins/heat shock factor functions in the presence of cold temperatures. - Ran experiments, such as RNA extractions, PCR, q-PCR, etc. - Analyzed HSF data from experiments and generated statistical figures of resulting data for publication.



Duke University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Intern

  • Jun 2018 - Jun 2019

  - Working under Dr. Yi-Ju Li at Duke University Medical Center. - Research in atrial fibrillation and surgically impacted atrial fibrillation data (>500K lines of data per file) using GWAS analysis. - Conducted and interpreted GWAS analysis using programs like PLINK with and without imputation techniques (Michigan Imputation Server). - Ran large-scale statistical analyses and produced statistical figures using R/RStudio (QQ-plots, Manhattan plots, etc.). - Working under Dr. Yi-Ju Li at Duke University Medical Center. - Research in atrial fibrillation and surgically impacted atrial fibrillation data (>500K lines of data per file) using GWAS analysis. - Conducted and interpreted GWAS analysis using programs like PLINK with and without imputation techniques (Michigan Imputation Server). - Ran large-scale statistical analyses and produced statistical figures using R/RStudio (QQ-plots, Manhattan plots, etc.).



Raleigh Volleyball Club

• Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Assistant Coach

  • Sep 2015 - May 2019



University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • May 2018 - Jul 2018

  - Worked in UNC Urology under Dr. Hung-Jui Tan. - Proofread and edited research documentation. - Assisted and shadowed in general analysis. - Worked in UNC Urology under Dr. Hung-Jui Tan. - Proofread and edited research documentation. - Assisted and shadowed in general analysis.



University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Aug 2017 - May 2018

  UNC-Charlotte Department of Bioinformatics

• Stockroom Assistant

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2017

  - UNC-Charlotte Department of Chemistry. - Maintained inventory and updated stock daily. - Customer relations with departmental staff and students. - Cleaned stockroom, laboratories, glassware, and other laboratory supplies.