Experience

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  Youth leadership of long beach

  Sept 2007 - Mar 2008

  Program graduate

  Youth Leadership Long Beach is a unique opportunity for 30+ high school students to join with emerging youth leaders from across Long Beach to experience an environmentally focused community leadership program.The program serves the community through educating and motivating the participants on issues and information important to the future and sustainability of the city of Long Beach. It empowers youth to accept roles as community trustees and learn the importance of solving the community’s challenges through individual responsibility. Show less

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  University of california, davis

  Sept 2010 - Dec 2010

  Meat science intern

  Learned to properly clean and sanitize meat coolers, trim and package retail cuts of meat, identify different USDA grades of meat through marbling, hang exports and short loins for dry aging, sharpen various types of boning and breaking knives and proper techniques for linking sausage, formulating marinades, trimming and washing carcasses and the maintenance of animal pens.

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  Uc davis meat laboratory

  Jan 2011 - Dec 2013

  Assitant manager

  Trained new employees, educated and lead student labs throughout the process of harvesting agricultural livestock for food and the fabrication of animal carcasses into wholesale and retail cuts, lead tours throughout the slaughterhouse, and constructed weekly work schedules for student employees. I had the privilege of working directly with USDA inspectors to discuss zero tolerance standards, implemented proper Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, filed Zero Tolerance paperwork, and ensured the humane handling of all animals and federally inspected product under USDA regulations. Show less

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  Uc davis hopkins and meyer avian research facility

  Jun 2013 - Dec 2013

  Avian intern

  Worked with colonies of Amazon Orange winged parrots, cockatiels, Japanese quail, and White-Leg horn chickens in which I practiced the handling and restraint of birds for blood samples, mite cleanings, beak and talon trimming, and wing banding. I socialized and hand trained parrots and cockatiels for the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and formulated diets and treats, conducted daily bird health checks through stool analysis, recorded behavioral profiles and health abnormalities within a detailed log, and submitted blood for analysis of Salmonella to the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Hospital. Show less

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  Northgate pet hospital

  Dec 2013 - Mar 2014

  Veterinary assistant

  Conducted administrative duties such as scheduling, moving and canceling appointments, calling clients to confirm laboratory results, ordering medical records, registering microchips, and arranging laboratory pickups for blood work. I also assisted the doctor with restraining canine and feline patients for blood and urine draws, sedation and gland expressions, weighing patients, configuring surgical packs, refilling prescriptions, centrifuging blood samples for complete blood counts, electrolyte and chemical panels, monitoring patients following outpatient surgery and the euthanasia of patients for cremation. Show less

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  Biosurg inc.

  Apr 2014 - Dec 2014

  Animal care technician

  Worked 24/7 providing husbandry and medical care for sheep implanted with LVAD and HVAD devices, including, but not limited to, administering medication PO, IM, and IV, basic physicals, feeding, and stall maintenance. I monitored and interpreted physiological parameters including EKG, cardiac output, blood gases, and arterial pressure. My duties also included clerical record keeping of physiological parameters, general animal behavior and documentation of drug administration and fluids. I maintained a strict level of confidentiality for BioSurg and sponsor information, knowledge of animal care SOP's, safety policies, IACUC and government regulations, and attended mandatory GLP training courses at the start of each new study. Show less

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  Safeway

  Apr 2014 - Dec 2014

  Meat and seafood clerk

  Provide superior customer service. Prepared, cut, stocked and rotated meat merchandise with company guidelines on merchandise presentation. Complied with company safety rules and sanitation standards. Applied suggestive selling. Ordered, stocked and displayed all fresh meat, fish, poultry, and prepackaged products. Used professional cutlery, saws, cubers, and grinders to process bulk meat. Also completed COOL and perishable food audits. Further duties included keeping the meat case organized, cleaning glass, emptying cases and trays. Show less

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  The jackson laboratory

  Jan 2015 - Sept 2015

  Animal technician

  Received extensive training in the principles and practices for basic animal husbandry in maximum biosecurity barrier rooms including colony maintenance, animal room maintenance & operations, and record keeping. I was responsible for demonstrating proficiency in handling various genetic strains of immunosuppressed mice, selecting potential breeding pairs, identifying abnormalities in behavior and anatomy, pup aging, weaning, and breeder retirement.

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  University of california, davis

  Sept 2015 - Nov 2019

  Laboratory animal technologist-teaching and research animal care services

  Ensured the humane care and use of animals utilized for teaching and research within the UC Davis Animal Care Program. Main duties were to provide husbandry care for a diverse array of species, including rodents, agricultural livestock, companion animals, reptiles, amphibians, raptors, nonhuman primates and various other USDA covered species. I worked with principal investigators, doctors, graduate students, and lab staff throughout the UC Davis main campus, Center for Neuroscience and the UC Davis Medical Center on studies for diabetes, nutrition, tumor treatment, behavioral and neurological pathways. I also maintained an IACUC and AALAC accredited vivarium, assist in basic colony management and train and advise lab staff on the proper use of machinery, caging components and lab animal restraint. Show less

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  Southern california reproductive center: art laboratory

  Nov 2019 - Oct 2020

  Embryology assistant

  Performed routine quality control inspections of surface temps, tanks and media, organized daily media placement (thaw, freeze, stripping and ISCI media) and managed laboratory inventory, including clinical supplies and media, scrubs, Tri-Gas, CO2 and Nitrogen tanks. My responsibilities included daily inspections of dewars and liquid nitrogen tanks to verify proper functionality in addition to maintaining all water circulators, bubblers, squirt bottles, and incubator water baths. Other daily tasks included creating and processing new lab summaries for next day oocyte aspirations, frozen embryo transfers, oocyte thaws, oocyte freezes and thaw, biopsy, refreezes and to create, place and remove patient labels from incubators. I prepared and aliquoted various media for clinical use (OPU and ET Flush, oil, gamete wash, TESE media, and lubrication for fresh collection) and also assisted with both dish witnessing and identification. As an assistant, I was called to transcribe verbal changes between physicians into written requisitions and fertilization reports, and facilitated proper communication to embryologists through the creation of a daily schedule of procedures and notations of requests outside of standard protocol within Excel. Other duties were to execute end of day laboratory shutdown procedures, and disposal of discarded embryos, and dishes into biohazardous waste and sharps receptacles. Lastly, I utilized an online database, eIVF, in order to relay andrology and embryology data between lab, clinical and surgical staff to promote efficiency in patient care. Show less

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  University of california, irvine - college of medicine

  Oct 2020 - now

  Colony manager-la spada lab

  Our lab seeks to develop new therapies for neurodegenerative diseases and pathologies , such as ALS, Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, SCA7 and SBMA through the use of cellular and mouse models. I oversee the maintenance of the La Spada transgenic mouse colony on the main UCI campus, ensure compliance of all animal-related experiments as approved within the Animal Use Protocol under the IACUC, train personnel in humane animal restraint and manipulation and provide technical assistance in ongoing research. Show less