Skills
- Laboratory: TLC, HPLC, ICP-MS, GC-MS, Protein Purification, Spectrophotometry, aliquoting, extraction, decanting, centrifuge, grinders
- Research: analysis of reactions, measurement of concentrations, analysis of a device, data analysis
- Other: graphs, making reports, recording data, calculations
Relevant Experience
Cynet Systems, Sterling, VA March 2022 - April 2022
Lab Technician at Battelle Memorial Institute, Norwell, MA
- Extraction of PFA from soils, tissues and sediment samples, using manifolds
- Vortex, aliquoting
- LIMS
- N-Evap, centrifuge, grinder
- Decanting
- Calibration, measurements of weights
Aequor Technologies, Piscataway, NJ October 2021-October 2021
Lab Technician at Amgen Inc, West Greenwich, RI
Westfield State University, Westfield, MA September 2017 - May 2021
Undergraduate (Academics)
- Obtained comprehensive laboratory experience throughout coursework in Organic Chemistry I & II, Biochemistry I & II, and Analytical Chemistry
- Additional coursework in Inorganic Chemistry, Research Methods, Research Experience, and Physical Chemistry I & II
- Gained hands-on experience with Analytical Chemistry methods, such as HPLC, chromatography, titrations, ICP-MS, GC-MS, reagent preparations, and standardization of solutions.
- Utilized Organic Chemistry techniques, such as recrystallization, distillation, TLC, acid-base extraction, and synthesis.
- Biochemistry laboratory research included protein purification, determination of protein purity, Absorbance
- Spectrophotometry, and determining protein concentration by standard curve.
Westfield State University, Westfield, MA January 2020 - May 2020
Research Assistant
- Studying the electrochemical system of a glucometer which supposedly detects all carbohydrates and determining what is actually detected.
- Comparing actual glucometer readings every 10 minutes of different carbohydrate solutions with supposed readings as calculated.
- Exploring the reaction of glucose in water.
- Exploring the chemical reactions that occur in the body to understand what concentration the glucometer would actually measure.
- Comparing the calculated concentration of glucose with the actual readings.
- Analyzing graphs and data.
