Experience

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  New jersey state aquarium

  Jun 1996 - Dec 1996

  Summer sea camp counselor; aquarist in husbandry dept.

  Aquarist: Assist in setting up and maintaining exhibits; food preparation and feeding of the animals; assist with treatments given to different animals; water quality analysis for various water systems; maintaining daily records for the various water systems.Summer Sea Camp Counselor: Set-up a five week long curriculum for children; taught children various lessons; enforced disciplinary actions when needed.

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  Degussa corporation

  Feb 1997 - Oct 2002

  Quality assurance laboratory technician

  In-process testing of product to ensure conformance; make process adjustments as required; notify appropriate individuals when problems arise; assist chemical operators to ensure product is within specifications; test finished product and notify shipping if product is within guidelines; perform waterquality testing daily; update lab notebooks and computer files daily; perform internal audits when necessary; worked with transfer of new products and assisted in fine tuning of machinery.

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  Sdix

  Aug 2006 - Oct 2012

  Work closely with Research and Development program to scale-up and transfer over new products to manufacturing department; troubleshooting of products in manufacturing; working closely with various departments to improve overall quality of products; troubleshooting and repairing production machines when there are issues; updating current manufacturing equipment to improve quality of product; looking for alternative materials and validating for production; validation and installation ofnew equipment; Polyclonal antibody purifications; monoclonal and polyclonal antibody qualifications; bacteria propagation to use in testing of food assays; setting specifications for production for both in-process and finished product testing Show less Scheduling of jobs that need to be completed by looking atupcoming orders; preparation of antibody spray dilutions and gold conjugations needed instrip production; preparation of buffer solutions; monoclonal and polyclonal antibodyqualifications; creating and updating process control charts to track trends; assisting inthe set-up of new machinery and training others in machine operation; troubleshooting andreporting problems; accurately enter data into lab notebooks and or lot records; assist insafety audits. Show less

  • Scientist III

    May 2009 - Oct 2012

  • Production Supervisor

    Mar 2007 - May 2009

  • Scientist I

    Aug 2006 - Feb 2007
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  Romer labs

  Oct 2012 - May 2016

  Research scientist

  Working closely with customers to develop new lateral flow devices; work closely with Manufacturing and Research and Development to scale-up and transfer over new products to manufacturing department for large scale production; troubleshooting of products in manufacturing; working closely with various departments to improve overall quality of products; troubleshooting and repairing production machines when there are issues; updating current manufacturing equipment to improve quality of product; looking for alternative materials and validating for production; validation and installation of new equipment;monoclonal and polyclonal antibody qualifications; bacteria propagation to use in testing of food assays; setting specifications for production for both in-process and finished product testing. Development of lateral flow devices used in testing food pathogens, GMO and Mycotoxins. Show less

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  Siemens healthineers

  Jul 2016 - Aug 2016

  Research biochemist
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  American bionostica inc

  Sept 2016 - Apr 2021

  Director of technology

  Developing new lateral flow devices to meet customer's request; Improving overall quality of products; Interacting directly with customers; looking at alternative materials/equipment and validating for production; setting up and maintaining of SPC charts; Quality control testing; Providing materials to production group; Performing internal audits.

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  Ethos biosciences

  Apr 2021 - now

  Assay development scientist

  Developing new lateral flow devices to meet customer's request; Improving overall quality of products; Interacting directly with customers; looking at alternative materials/equipment and validating for production; setting up and maintaining of SPC charts; Quality control testing; Providing materials to production group; Performing internal audits.