Relief Keeper

• Jan 2023 - Present

Animal Facility Specialist(Floor Supervisor)

• Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

Lab Animal Technician

• Sep 2018 - Dec 2020

*Observe animal’s appetite, disposition, habits, physical appearance and/or excreta to detect assess indications of stress, illness, welfare, and medical and behavioral needs. *Follow good laboratory practices and standard operating procedures while receiving produce and animals. *Maintain reports on all animal conditions in daily reports, diaries, electronic records to plan and execute daily operations in assigned area. *Provides environmental enrichment feed and other enrichment stimuli and/ or provide behavioral assessments. *Performs rodent, non-human primates, porcine, caprine and canine husbandry. *Duties including but not limited to preparation and actual changing of animal cages and related cage accessories, feeding and manual watering or monitoring/ testing automatic watering devices. *Transfer animals in accordance with departmental policy and standards from one enclosure to another for animal management purposes. *Prepares caging for cagewash, including scraping floor grids, breaking down caging and dumping pans, scraping, polish, and sanitize cages/equipment. *Perform animal census. *Work collaboratively with research staff and other departments *Unload and store feed and produce. *Provide minor repair of equipment, cages and all associated animal areas. *Euthanasia of lab animals to storage and disposal of specimen. Show less

Assistant Manager

• Feb 2018 - Aug 2018

*Supports and executes all aspects of operations and merchandising. *Primarily responsible for driving business results through the effective coaching of the store team. *Supports and executes all aspects of operations and merchandising. *Primarily responsible for driving business results through the effective coaching of the store team.

Research Assistant

• Sep 2017 - Jan 2018

*Extracted swine muscle biopsies/Inject anesthetics into loin area. *Organized data on litter numbers and swine measurements using Microsoft Excel. *Assisted grad students in meat science and muscle biology on current research projects. *Utilized cryostat machine to cut frozen animal muscle samples microscopically. *Identified and examined tissues on slide using various microscopes. *Extracted swine muscle biopsies/Inject anesthetics into loin area. *Organized data on litter numbers and swine measurements using Microsoft Excel. *Assisted grad students in meat science and muscle biology on current research projects. *Utilized cryostat machine to cut frozen animal muscle samples microscopically. *Identified and examined tissues on slide using various microscopes.

Vet Assistant

• Dec 2016 - Jan 2017

*Groomed dog/cat, expressed anal glands, herd cattle, record data, restrain animals, assist in surgeries, document recovery of animals, and give vaccinations subcut/intramusc. *Groomed dog/cat, expressed anal glands, herd cattle, record data, restrain animals, assist in surgeries, document recovery of animals, and give vaccinations subcut/intramusc.