Experience

Karbach Brewing Co.

• United States
• Food & Beverages
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Quality Assurance Lab Tech

  • Sep 2018 - Present

  I am accountable for all day-to-day laboratory activities and developing new technicians. I also expand on current practices by implementing new instrumentation like the installation and setup of our gas chromatograph which is now used on a daily basis. I also lead the sensory program for production employees which consists of scheduling and setting up tastings, analyzing the data, and conveying the results with management for decision-making purposes. On top of these things, I educate all new hires on the basics of beer sensory evaluation. I joined the lab in a very transitory period for the company and had to take a leadership position early on in my tenure. As a QA technician for the brewery, we have to hold all other departments accountable in following the correct GMPs and adhering to the guidelines outlined in our HACCP plan. This includes auditing their performance with routine checks and ensuring that nothing leaves our premises that are not up to company/legal standards. Show less



Auspicious Laboratory Inc.

• Lab Technologist

  • Nov 2016 - Sep 2018

  Auspicious Laboratory Inc. is a high complexity lab specialized in drugs of abuse comprehension. As the lab technologist, I had to prepare liquid samples and standards for testing on our HPLC-MS systems for analysis. This required excellent pipetting and attention to detail. At the same time, I was operating and maintaining three different LC-MS/MS setups for all the different classes of drug metabolites we tested for. Operating these machines consisted of having the mastery of the analytical software for sequence/method creation and analyzing results from the produced chromatograms. Routine maintenance was required by cleaning equipment and creating solutions at accurate concentrations for analysis as well as troubleshooting equipment that was acting faulty during or between analytical runs. I also produced drug screening and confirmation reports that detailed drug prevalence by sample which were provided to physician offices and other intermediaries in a very quick turnaround time. Successes included learning how to operate and maintain LC-MS/MS systems, training new employees on all processes and creating the first-ever SOPs for the company to standardize procedure. Show less



University of Houston

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2014 - May 2016

  Genetics laboratory under the direction of Professor Gregg Roman. I spent my time here conducting research on the cognitive functions and neural plasticity of fruit fly brains. I concentrated on mutations in 5-HT (serotonin) receptors in conjunction with other members of the lab. This research called for me to breed flies across generations in order to control gene expression. We utilized the GAL4/UAS system co-opted form yeast to turn genes on and off. After the desired genetic makeup was reached, the resultant offspring generation of flies were tested for their locomotive skills. Behavior was altered by the mutated 5-HT receptors which effectively caused symptoms similar in organisms that deal with depression. Show less



University of Louisville

• Louisville, Kentucky Area

• Bioengineering Lab Internship

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Bioengineering lab under the direction of Professor Martin O'Toole. I aided in the development of novel nanoparticles made from nano-sized gold spheres decorated with strands of DNA called an aptamer. The aptamer binds to a protein (nucleolin) that is found on the surface of cancer cells and not on normal cells that leads to the death of cancer cells since nucleolin is essential to cancer cell survival. I conducted research pertinent to the targeting of cancer cells including the utility of nanoparticles and aptamers. I aided in the synthesis of the novel-sized (5nm) gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) that were used throughout study and the conjugation of the oligonucleotides to the surface of the AuNPs. Laboratory testing was subject to critical analysis by UV/Vis spectrometry, zetasizer, TEM and SEM analytical techniques. Show less