Chris Yates

Experience

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  Oregon Swim Camp

  Apr 2011 - Sept 2012

  Lifeguard/Swim Teacher

  Guard patrons and respond to several drowning and medical emergencies. Teach and schedule public and private swim lessons to children and adults ages 3-14 years in accordance to Swim America standards.

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  North Clackamas Aquatic Park

  Apr 2011 - Apr 2012

  Lifeguard/ Water Safety Instructor

  Guard an average 100 patrons and respond to drowning and medical emergencies; teach swim lessons to children ages 3-50 years in accordance to American Red Cross standards.

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  Shred Northwest

  Sept 2014 - Jul 2015

  Operations Trainer

  Scan, organize, and digitally store sensitive business, medical, and legal documents information in an easily retrievable way using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software.Teach other scanners in my team how to troubleshoot issues with the scanning software and hardware.Quickly destroy unwanted and sensitive records according to HIPAA guidelines.Manage the tearing down of several warehouses while keeping an inventory of thousands of boxes containing sensitive information.

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  Lorentz Bruun Construction

  Aug 2015 - Apr 2016

  Construction Laborer

  Fulfilling construction and renovation orders with a high standard of quality for high profile, multi-million dollar clients such as the KOIN 6 News Tower, or the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon.

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  AvantGuard Monitoring Centers

  Apr 2017 - Jul 2017

  Medical Alarm Response Operator

  Quickly, calmly, and critically analyze medical push-button alarms to determine emergency level of each alarm activation, often needing to dispatch to 911 in life-threatening situations for subscribers.

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  Brigham Young University - Idaho

  Sept 2017 - Jun 2020

  ● Designed 3D-printable equipment to replace missing equipment, saving our laboratory hundreds of dollars● Taught surgical procedures on rats, such as ovariectomies, stereotactic injections, and cardiac perfusions as a Teaching Assistant for the Advanced Neuroscience course; also taught laboratory techniques such as immunohistochemistry, behavioral testing, and rat husbandry● Helped teach the ‘Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’ course, which helped students develop the skills necessary to work as an entry level laboratory technician, including western blotting, enzyme kinetics, PCR, bacterial cloning and gene expression● Taught human anatomy using cadavers and models Show less Tutoring the following classes: • Neurobiology, which introduces cellular communication, sensory, motor and integrating systems, and the neural basis of behavior; and explores the plasticity of neural systems in learning, during development and via hormonal influences.• Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, which helped students develop the skills necessary to work as an entry level laboratory technician, including western blotting, enzyme kinetics, PCR, bacterial cloning and gene expression• General Chemistry Show less

  • Advanced Neuroscience Teaching Assistant

    Jan 2018 - Jun 2020

  • Tutor

    Sept 2017 - Dec 2018
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  Uniformed Services University

  Jul 2019 - Nov 2019

  Intern at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

  ● Participated in the investigation the role of a GnRH metabolite, GnRH(1-5), in endometrial cancer and identifying the G-proteins recruited by its orphan G-protein coupled receptor, GPR101, upon its activation. ● Became proficient in laboratory techniques such as bacterial cloning, human cell culturing, protein extraction, western blotting, and RT-PCR

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  New Focus Academy

  Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

  Medical Coordinator

  ● Monitor patient's self-administration of medications ● Coordinate patient treatment plans with physicians, therapists, and coaches our for patient's psychiatric care ● Help patients learn to advocate for their own care ● Mediate interactions between pharmacies and physicians offices with the patient's families ● Maintain and update office records, including HIPAA sensitive information ● De-escalate the emotional levels of our patients, who are predominately on the autistic spectrum and/or have schizoaffective disorders ● Respond to potentially dangerous situations, where escalated patient's may be posing a threat to themselves or other patients ● Educating patients on the purposes and side effects of their medications Show less

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  University of Utah

  Jun 2021 - Jul 2023

  Laboratory Specialist

  • Utilizing zebrafish and high-throughput screening technologies to discover drug candidatesfor cardiovascular and nervous system disorders, as well as elucidate the diseasemechanisms that drive those disorders• Helping develop tools and techniques for high-throughput injections for genetic alterations in zebrafish embryos• Developing a User Interface and an R script that analyzes data from a behavioral phenotyping platform and generates custom figures

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  Baylor College of Medicine

  Jul 2023 - now

  PHD Student