Work:
Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc
associate scientist
Human Genome Sciences
manufacturing technician
Community College of Baltimore County
research lab technician
Angelia's Pizza
delivery person
Quest Diagnostics
imaging technician
Education:
Community College of Baltimore County
Certificate in Biotechnology
Howard University
Purdue University
B.S. in Evolution, Ecology, and Population Biology
Skills:
Skill Areas -lab equipment including Tecan EVO, centrifuges, spectrophotometers, microscopes, IR, NMR, spectrophotometers, electrophoresis/PAGE gels, PCR thermocycler, pH meter, conductometer, osmometer, -experience with cell staining procedures, DNA extraction, PCR, DNA and protein hybridization, plasmid transformation, plating procedures, spectroscopy, most wet chemistry procedures, streaking, aseptic technique, basic cell culture techniques, ELISA test, media and buffer preparation -experience with several LIMS programs, GenBank and BLAST, MS Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Adobe Dreamweaver, deltaV (for automating manufacturing processes), Java programming - certified EMT as of 2/8/10 -Speak some German, some Mandarin Chinese, and some Spanish