Experience

1Day Sooner Inc.

• Director of Research

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  https://1daysooner.org/The 1Daysooner team advocates for Human Challenge trials as a safe and effective method for fast-tracking the discovery, approval, and availability of COVID-19 vaccines. We have been working closely with stalwarts in the field of Immunology, Vaccinology, Clinical Medicine, and Biomedical ethics to develop protocols, risk models, advocacy campaigns, and the pathways for human challenge trials in low risk, young and consenting individuals for fast-tracking vaccine development and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for the developing low income and low middle-income group countries of the global South, as a global public good. We at 1Daysooner have already registered 38,000+ individuals across the globe for volunteering in the SARS-CoV-2 human challenge trials.



Virginia Schmit PhD Consultant LLC

• Principal

  • 2016 - Oct 2020



Larimer County Department of Health and Environment

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Larimer County COVID response

  • Apr 2020 - Sep 2020

  I worked in various places during the COVID response. In the EOC, I was the mass care branch director and we stood up a site for people experiencing homelessness to recover safely from COVID-19 (in a shelter capacity). I worked on the outbreaks team and managed the waste water epidemiology project while I was on the COVID response. I worked in various places during the COVID response. In the EOC, I was the mass care branch director and we stood up a site for people experiencing homelessness to recover safely from COVID-19 (in a shelter capacity). I worked on the outbreaks team and managed the waste water epidemiology project while I was on the COVID response.



Armada Water Assets Inc

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Water Chemist

  • 2015 - 2016



US Public Health Service

• United States
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Deputy Director of Lab Ops, Senior Scientist BioWatch program

  • Jun 2013 - Jul 2014

  Provide technical assistance to laboratoriesAct as subject matter expert in molecular biology for the programProvide scientific input in reworking protocolsManage multiple projectsOversee multicenter studiesAct as contracting officer’s representative (COR) on multiple contractsParticipate and act as subject matter expert in numerous working groupsPresent to local, state, and federal partners in a variety of settings Provide technical assistance to laboratoriesAct as subject matter expert in molecular biology for the programProvide scientific input in reworking protocolsManage multiple projectsOversee multicenter studiesAct as contracting officer’s representative (COR) on multiple contractsParticipate and act as subject matter expert in numerous working groupsPresent to local, state, and federal partners in a variety of settings



University of Wyoming

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Post doctoral fellow

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2012

  Analyze and test phylogenetic trees generated from internally developed softwareUse biochemical knowledge to determine quality of phylogenetic trees from gene familiesWrite and troubleshoot PERL script in The Adaptive Evolution Database (TAED)Design and write HTML code for TAED web site Analyze and test phylogenetic trees generated from internally developed softwareUse biochemical knowledge to determine quality of phylogenetic trees from gene familiesWrite and troubleshoot PERL script in The Adaptive Evolution Database (TAED)Design and write HTML code for TAED web site



Snowy Range Instruments

• Applications Scientist

  • Aug 2010 - Dec 2011

  Direct and indirect SERS assay development and instrument design for assay analysisCollaborated with a wide variety of research institutions, small business, and government laboratories for unique Raman instrumentationWrote and won proposals to develop instrumentation and biassays Wrote and submitted manuscripts for peer reviewed publications Direct and indirect SERS assay development and instrument design for assay analysisCollaborated with a wide variety of research institutions, small business, and government laboratories for unique Raman instrumentationWrote and won proposals to develop instrumentation and biassays Wrote and submitted manuscripts for peer reviewed publications



ADA Technologies, Inc.

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Laboratory manager / analytical Chemist

  • Apr 2009 - Aug 2010

  GCMS method development and trace detection testingManaged internsExperimental design and statistical analysis of proprietary technologiesCollaborated with electrical engineer, chemist, and team leader to develop prototype instrument GCMS method development and trace detection testingManaged internsExperimental design and statistical analysis of proprietary technologiesCollaborated with electrical engineer, chemist, and team leader to develop prototype instrument



Colorado State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Laboratory Manager

  • Jan 2008 - Oct 2008

  Managed radiation control and hazardous waste accumulation and disposal Mentored 3 graduate students and advised them daily on their projects to develop independently thinking scientistsManaged laboratory including personnel, equipment, and daily operations as well as oversight of the finances associated with a number of large grants Designed and executed experiments. Executed large flow cytometry projects with up to four fluorphores per sample.Wrote, submitted and published peer reviewed publication



Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Regular Fellow

  • Aug 2006 - Jan 2008

  Characterization of Borrelia burgdorferi invasion of neural, glial, and endothelial cellsPerformed biochemical assays to characterize members of the Paralagous Gene Family 54 of Borrelia burgdorferiMonoclonal antibody in vitro blocking of Borrelia burgdorferi invasion of mammalian cellsWrote and submitted a number of peer reviewed publications; presented research to DVBID branch; poster presentations at GRC. Characterization of Borrelia burgdorferi invasion of neural, glial, and endothelial cellsPerformed biochemical assays to characterize members of the Paralagous Gene Family 54 of Borrelia burgdorferiMonoclonal antibody in vitro blocking of Borrelia burgdorferi invasion of mammalian cellsWrote and submitted a number of peer reviewed publications; presented research to DVBID branch; poster presentations at GRC.