Research Technician III at Seattle Children's Research Institute (2024-01 – 2025-11)
Laid off due to budget cuts
- Assisted clients and developed individualized project goals for unique customer needs
- Managed core-facility operations including billing and ordering
- Spearheaded histology core workflow, launched core to institute, advertised core capabilities with presentations to potential customers, and completed variety of customer orders
- Collaborated with Spatial and Microscopy Imaging Core to establish efficient workflow pipelines
- Trained customers on how to use core facility equipment and follow standard operating procedures
- Provided expert histology services to customers, including processing, embedding, sectioning, and staining a variety of tissue sample types
Research Scientist/Engineer at Laboratory of Shreeram Akilesh, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology University of Washington (2022-03 – 2024-01)
- Managed the Digital Spatial Profiling Core Facility including overseeing laboratory operations, ordering supplies, creating standard operating procedures (SOPs), and ensuring safety protocol compliance
- Ensured high level of customer satisfaction through the delivery of expert histology services
- Engaged with a variety of customers including advertising core-facility services and troubleshooting experiments to meet customer needs
- Designed and executed experiments quantifying disease activity
- Collaborated on the preparation and presentation of data for publications
Research Associate at Roche Tissue Diagnostics, contracted by PRO Unlimited (2020-06 – 2022-03)
- Planned and executed histology experiments to meet time-drive milestones for FDA approval
- Prepared technical reports, summaries, and presented data during internal meetings
- Screened tissue for histology biomarkers, curated tissue slide sets for pathology analysis, and collaborated with pathologists to develop essential training materials
- Maintained documentation and tissue databases with 10,000+ samples for Pharma partner franchises
