Dawit Tegegn

Works with Pharmaron QA and Laboratory Leadership in ensuring quality standards are followed, maintained, and documented.

Laboratory Quality Associate - Pharmaron CPC - Baltimore, Maryland 21201

(2023-01 - 2025-10)

Works with Pharmaron QA and Laboratory Leadership in ensuring quality standards are followed, maintained, and documented.

• Assist with specimen reconciliation, quality review of study documents, quality control of specimen labels, shipments, and study worksheets/manifests.
• Responsible for identifying quality problems and recommending solutions.
• Assists in the review and assessment of compliance within the laboratory sections with regulatory standards including CLIA, COLA, GLP
• Maintains and monitors study documentation and materials; review for completeness, responds to audit requests for document retrieval.
• Assist with specimen processing attributes as needed. This includes receives, process, centrifuge, aliquot, and store specimens in compliance with IRB approved protocol and protocol specific lab manual.
• Performs bench top waived tests (ex. Serum/urine hcg tests, HIV antibody/antigen qualitive test, UDS, Covid PCR test)
• Daily instrument calibration/QC of UA, Hematology analyzer, Coag. analyzer, chem/serology analyzer
• Trouble shooting lab information management systems

Lab Assistant/Specimen Processor - Pharmaron CPC, Inc. - Baltimore, MD

(2023-06 - 2023-02)

• Lab Assistant
• Verify complete sample requisitions for core lab tests.
• Generate specific labels to identify samples for the lab, clinical team and outpatient phlebotomy.
• Ordering tests in internal laboratory information system for chemistry, hematology and coagulation Analyzer Tests
• Running waived lab test (pregnancy test, urine drug screening, HIV Tests, GeneXpert COVID/Flu PCR testing)
• Daily maintenance and quality control of lab equipment/analyzers.
• Specimen Processing
• Received, centrifuge, aliquot, and stored laboratory specimen in compliance with the IRB.
• Approved protocol and the final version of the protocol-specific laboratory manual.
• Documented each stage of PK processing (i.e., in/out centrifuge, etc.).
• Affixed specimen labels to PK cryovial tubes prior to initiating the specimen processing.
• Organized PK Cryovials

Lab Operation Technician - Thermo Fisher - Frederick, MD

(2021-08 - 2022-06)

• Disease prevention repository technician
• Responsible for receipt, inventory, storage, withdrawal, and shipment of biological specimens for commercial and government clients.
• Enter bio-samples that are received at the depository into a database. Which allows tracking completion of objectives according to QC standards and work-related timelines.
• Stored various Bio-samples at temperatures ranging from ambient to below freezing in Nitrogen liquid tanks.
• Reese monitoring of Freezers and N2 tanks

Sales Associate/ Assistant Manager - Racquet and Jog Sports - Rockville, MD

(2015-08 - 2021-06)

Bachelor of Science - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - University of Maryland – Baltimore County (2020-12)

Associate of Science - General Studies - Montgomery College (2016-05)