Wade Coutinho

Experience

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  Waterloo Learning Centre Summer Camp

  Jul 2011 - Aug 2011

  Teaching Assistant

  -Patiently taught English and Math to visiting elementary school students from South Korea.-Supervised the students to ensure their safety and responded to minor First Aid needs.-Planned and then helped to carry out events for the students in the school and around the Greater Toronto Area.

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  Meal Exchange

  Jan 2012 - May 2012

  Volunteer Member

  -Developed punctuality by attending weekly meetings to brainstorm ideas for events.-Informed students and staff about the club’s cause and fundraised in the community to support group events and initiatives.-Distributed donated clothing and purchased food to impoverished communities around the city.

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  Vienna Bakery

  Jun 2012 - Jul 2012

  Packer and Cashier

  -Packed wholesale orders of baked goods for companies, stores and public events.-Developed proactive behaviour by browsing through a list of bulk orders from various companies at the beginning of each day in order to work efficiently.-Sold baked goods and pastries to individual customers in the bakery.-Developed teamwork and multi-tasking skills by co-ordinating with co-workers to pack bread for bulk orders and selling bread to customers in the store.

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  Siemens

  Jul 2012 - Aug 2012

  Administrative Assistant

  -Organised technical manuals on variable-frequency drives, scanned them to a computer, and uploaded soft copies to a company database.-Accurately scanned approximately 250 manuals (each roughly 200 pages) by the project deadline.

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  University of Toronto

  May 2013 - Dec 2013

  Research Assistant

  -Working in the Mario Ostrowski Lab in the Department of Immunology on a project involving the induction of a CD8 and CD4 T-cell response to the expression of Human Endogenous Retrovirus K (HERV-K) RNA in acute HIV-infected treatment naive dendritic cells.-Over the course of an 8 month co-op work term, attempting to develop the protocol for this project, including steps involving HERV-K DNA transcription, monocyte isolation, electroporation, dendritic cell culturing, co-cultures, and T cell proliferation assays.-Learned a variety of laboratory skills and proper sterile technique for use in a Level 2 Biosafety tissue culture lab with a biosafety cabinet. Show less