• 10 years+ computer programming experience
• 6.5 years scientific experience
• 3.5 years cGMP environment experience
• 4 years project management/technical writing experience
• 2 years laboratory research experience

EDUCATION:

Hood College Graduate School Fall 2004-Present (Expected Graduation May 2008)

• Studies towards M.S. in BioMedical Sciences with a focus in Immunology/Virology
• 33 graduate credits completed as of January 2008, 3.9 GPA

• Graduated May 8, 2000 with GPA of 3.9
• B.S. with major in Molecular Biology, minor in Mathematics/Computer Science

• Supervisor: Dr. Brian Florence
• Job duties include: Read and reviews progress reports of funded award projects. Co-program manager for the Neurofibromatosis program. Member of the Program Evaluation Notebook committee, help design and maintain the notebook for new members to help initiate them to the Program Evaluation process, participate and help research on program evaluation projects, manage and follow up on research products, design and maintain databases and code.

Scientific Coordinator
July 2003 - May 2007
NIH AIDS Reference and Research Reagent Program
Fisher Bioservices ~ Contract with NIAID, NIH

• Supervisor: Dr. Dave Thomas, Dave.Thomas@FisherSci.com
• Scientific Coordinator supporting the project that distributes reagents for HIV/AIDS research free of charge to qualified scientists. Daily duties include: approving orders, finding citations, reading relevant publication, checking shipments, acquiring new reagents, checking over registrations, keeping track of low inventory items, answering technical questions, and re-ordering reagents. Also managed several projects including biannual update of SOPs and improvement of web page to be user friendly. Wrote several sections of the Government Proposal for contract renewal in 2005. Helped incorporate process improvements in our aliquoting
• BioServices Trainings completed: Project Management, Business Process Analysis/ Improvement, Preparing Others to Succeed, SOP preparation processing and review, cGMP: Regulations That Help You Improve Your Operations, Leadership: When Results Matter Most, Adverse Event and Incident Reporting.

• Supervisor: Andres Buonanno, buonanno@helix.nih.gov
• Research project on promoter sequence for proteins, which causes muscles to develop as slow rather than fast twitch and vice versa. Required subcloning of constructs to be used in Yeast One Hybrid, along with the Yeast One hybrid itself.
• Techniques Involved: Restriction Digest, Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, Ligation, PCR, Yeast one Hybrid mating, production of yeast and bacterial mediums, plating of bacteria and yeast, southern blotting, Beta Gal assays.

• September 2000 to May 2002
• Supervisors: Makiko Fujii Ph.D., FujiiM@mail.nih.gov, NIH, and Tony Parks M.D. parkst@u.washington.edu, (University of Washington)
• Techniques involved-cell culture, transfections, cell lysate collection, western blotting, immunoprecipitation, RNA isolation, northern blotting, PCR, rtPCR, transformations, DNA plasmid preps, nucleic acid electrophoresis, sub cloning, restriction digests, ligations, immuno-fluorescence, luciferase assays, stable cell line creation, primary cell line creation (keratinocytes), sequence analysis, some microarray.

• Kirk Cammarata Ph.D., kirk-v-cammarata@tamu.edu (Texas A&M University)
• 30 hours per week, for 1.3 months
• Independent Research Project to maximize the protein production of cellular and membrane fractions so as to be used to research function of proteins involved with chlorophyll.

• Computer/Internet based research, spreadsheets and databases, windows and major Microsoft programs (Works, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Corel WordPerfect), C++ programming language, Visual Basic programming, and assembly programming language.

• HTML programming, Javascript programming, CGI scripts, and general web page publishing.