Experience

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  The Rainbow Project - Northern Ireland

  • United Kingdom
  • Wellness and Fitness Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Regional Health & Wellbeing Officer

    • Nov 2022 - Present

    Supporting the wellbeing of LGBTQIA+ people in rural areas of Northern Ireland, Building a supportive network of LGBTQIA+ allies in rural Northern Ireland, Promoting the services provided by The Rainbow Project NI.

  • Volunteer

    • Jan 2020 - Present

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  Nerve Centre

  • Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  • Songwriting Mentor

    • Jul 2022 - Present
    • Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

    songwriting /Lyric Mentor at Camp Rock programmes for youths

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  Macklin Care Homes | Care Home Group in Northern Ireland

  • Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  • Activities Therapist

    • Nov 2021 - Jul 2023
    • Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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  Help Musicians UK

  • Various locations throughout Northern Ireland

  • Volunteer

    • Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
    • Various locations throughout Northern Ireland

    Fundraising and promotion of Northern Ireland branch of Music Charity Help Musicians UK.

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  Sinead McGarry

  • Songwriter

    • Jun 2014 - Dec 2021

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  Buddha's Belly NI

  • Armoy, Northern Ireland

  • Director

    • Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
    • Armoy, Northern Ireland

    Owner and manager of sole trader market business.

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  Enterprise NI

  • Regional start customer

    • 2013 - 2013

    Developed business and financial plans for Buddha's Belly NI.Trained in business and financial business planningTrained in electronic marketing

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  University of Ulster

  • Saad Centre for Pharmacy & Diabetes

  • voluntary research assistant

    • Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
    • Saad Centre for Pharmacy & Diabetes

    Voluntary unpaid work experience to train in chemical laboratory techniques including High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Gel Filtration (using Sephadex), UV Spectroscopy.

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  Armoy Motorcycle Road Racing Club Ltd

  • Child protection officer/ Event safety officer

    • 2011 - 2012

    Collaboration & co-operation with medical, emergency, and health & safety agencies to produce the event safety plan. The event safety plan includes individual safety plan made by each agency, to cover all event health & safety areas, and to ensure safety for club members, competitors and spectators / general public.Amendment of previous major incident plan.Child Protection officer.

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  Stem Cell Research Group, University of Ulster, Coleraine.

  • University of Ulster, Coleraine.

  • Placement year, work experience student.

    • Jul 2007 - Jul 2008
    • University of Ulster, Coleraine.

    Hematopoietic stem cell culture ( self renewal & differentiation lineages.RNA extraction from stem cell cultures.Reverse-Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction analysis of gene expression in stem cells & (AML) leukaemic patients.Agarose gel electrophoretic separation of Oct products.UV visualization of gene expression.Western blotting analysis

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  University of Ulster, Coleraine.

  • Teaching Labs, University of Ulster, Coleraine

  • Student mentor Step -Up (summer school)

    • Jun 2008 - Jun 2008
    • Teaching Labs, University of Ulster, Coleraine

    Supervised pupil participation in a summer school which academic and practical skills were assessed.Taught secondary school pupils haematological laboratory techniques.Advised pupils on their lab write ups whilst encouaging them to do them independently & to a high standard.