Experience

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  Labcorp

  • Implementation Manager

    • Feb 2022 - Present

    Responsible for leading all aspects of a customer implementation of the PGDx portfolio of products, in addition to scaling of existing systems and building of new systems, creating greater efficiencies and executions across the PGDx organization

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  Personal Genome Diagnostics

  • United States
  • Biotechnology Research
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Operations Project Manager

    • Apr 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Manufacturing Project Manager

    • Jul 2020 - Apr 2021

  • Associate Project Manager

    • Aug 2018 - Jul 2020

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  Paragon Bioservices, Inc.

  • United States
  • Biotechnology Research
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Production Coordinator

    • Jan 2018 - Aug 2018

    Coordinate GMP Upstream production for contract clinical manufacturing. Responsible for coordinating the ordering, arrival and release of materials, GMP suite preparation, documentation readiness and meeting challenging client production deadlines

  • Manufacturing Associate III

    • Apr 2017 - Jan 2018

    Dedicated in overall GMP cell culture and fermentation manufacturing processes, through application of broad knowledge of theories and principles utilized to solve operational and routine tasks in the production of bulk biologics from microbial and cell culture systems for GMP manufacturing

  • Manufacturing Associate II

    • Oct 2016 - Apr 2017

  • Manufacturing Associate I

    • Oct 2015 - Oct 2016

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  TissueGene,Inc.

  • Rockville, MD

  • Research Associate

    • Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
    • Rockville, MD

    Participate in developing and validating therapeutic drug candidates based on cell biology and molecular biology techniques as a member of TissueGene’s Research and Development team.Skills Acquired: Mammalian cell culture (2D & 3D),ELISA, Glycosaminoglycan Assay, Immmunostaining,Western Blot,...

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  University of Maryland Center for Environmental...

  • Maryland

  • Laboratory Technician

    • Mar 2013 - Sep 2014
    • Maryland

    Responsible for processing oyster (Crassostrea virginica) larvae spawned in the Choptank River while devolping, enhancing, and validating a biophysical larval transport model of the Choptank River with the end goal to apply all finding and predictions to support oyster restoration management and ...

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  Salisbury University

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Undergraduate Researcher

    • Aug 2012 - Dec 2012

    “Significance of Acr-16 Expression in Nicotine Acetylcholine Receptor Formation Analyzed in Caenorhabditis elegans”Semester long project focusing on inducing RNAi knockdown of Acr-16 gene in C. elegans. Intended to analyze the expression of Acr-16 related to its function in acetylcholine receptor formation. Acquired skills- PCR, Miniprep plasmid isolation, Acr-16 specific primer design, BLAST, TA cloning, Restriction Enzyme Cloning, Electroporation transformation. Transformant screening, Colony PCR and restriction length polymorphism analyses, Real-time quantitative PCR, RNA isolation, cDNA synthesis

  • Undergraduate Researcher

    • Sep 2011 - Aug 2012

    “Genetic Variation among Habitat Separated Populations of Salvelinus alpinus (Arctic charr)”Project centered around developing a profile of genetic variance for four populations of Arctic charr in four different habitats (spring fed river, a glacial run-off river, lake, and aquaculture raised). Intended to test genetic differences among populations.Acquired skills- Utilized two different genetic data collection techniques (Inter Simple Sequence Repeats and microsatellites) to analyze genetic differentiation, DNA extraction, Designed and optimized microsatellite and ISSR primers, Gel electrophoresis, Popgene analysis of ISSR data to develop profiles of genetic variation among populations,Trained fellow undergraduate students in ISSR protocols

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  Holar University College

  • Iceland

  • Research Assistant

    • Jun 2012 - Sep 2012
    • Iceland

    Assist in multiple terrestrial and off shore field work projects through out Iceland while performing all required data storage and managementAcquired Skills- Aquaculture care and management, Electrofishing, Landmark analyses for comparative morphology in Arctic charr, Amphipod collection for gen...