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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY, MEDICAL DEVICES & PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 

LABORATORY AND MEDICAL DEVICES

4 plus years of experience in technical and research laboratory roles:

  • Analyzed animal and human biological matrix samples using LC-MS-MS and HPLC under FDA Good Laboratory Practices (GLP)

  • Participated in private and government (NIEHS) assay validations, method development, and pharmaceutical metabolite analysis contracts for animal and human clinical trials. Developed full test methods for metabolite detection and assay validation including QC standard curves

  • Primary contact for MEDEC, TUV Rhineland, and CSA. Wrote and maintained SOPs for ISO 13485 Quality Management System (QMS) using current good manufacturing practices (cGMP)

  • Utilized various analytical clinical chemistry techniques for the detection of lead, lipid profiles, glucose, syphilis, Hb genotyping, and Rh antibodies
     

RESEARCH

Basic research activities:

  • Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, UTMB: Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Society of Toxicology: Protocol Development for Biological Monitoring of Population Exposure to Mutagens: Clonal hprt Mutant Lymphocyte Assay

  • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin: researched the binding dissociation constant (Kd) of the zinc finger family of proteins GAL4 and PPR1 involved in transcriptional regulation

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

8 plus years of professional teaching and tutoring at the university level:

  • Adjunct faculty, Department of Chemistry, Austin Community College

  • Master Tutor and Mentor for the Summer Provisional Mentor Program at House of Tutors

  • TA-ships at St. Mary’s University and Texas State University for biology, molecular biology, genetics, general chemistry, and biochemistry for nursing classes

SPECIAL TRAINING

  • Waters Connections University: Chemistry of Resolution Course, Dallas, Texas

  • ACC Faculty Development: Creating an Instructional Web Presence, Austin, Texas

  • Guelph Food and Technology Centre: Food Safety and Microbial Monitoring in the Food Industry, Guelph, Ontario

  • MEDEC: Quality Management Systems Workshop, Toronto, Ontario

  • Pharmaceuticals Science Group: Writing and Organizing SOPs for use in cGMP facilities, Montréal, Quebec

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