Quality Engineer - Epredia - Portsmouth, NH
(2025-06)
- Complaint and nonconformance reporting and investigation, disposition, and containment
- Aiding in CAPA initiation and investigation
- Root cause analysis including 5 Whys and Fishbone
- Customer calls and site visits
- Document updates, including standard operating procedures (SOPs), test methods (TMs), and work instructions (WINs).
- Keeping track of calibration for the entire site, entering calibration certificates
- QMS organization and management including change controls, controlled documents, training, and quality records
Senior QA Laboratory Technician - Epredia - Portsmouth, NH
(2023-09 - 2025-06)
Contractor 09/2023-02/2024, Transferred to Permanent Employee 02/2024
- Run and result DNA microarray, histology, cytology, and cellular culture assays (quality control) on various microscope slides for product release, including use of biological safety cabinets, CO2 incubators, pipettes, etc.
- Histology tissue processing and imbedding for both skin and brain samples
- Handle and prepare solutions using cellular cultures (HEp2, PC12, BHK21, MRC5).
- Collection and resulting of water and swab samples as part of quality monitoring on production floor
- Assigning trainings to new employees in QMS, as well as doing in-person trainings
- Aiding in complaint management, including within quality management systems, particularly organization
Clinical Microbiologist - Pfizer (Eurofins USA PSS Solutions Contractor) - Andover, MA
(2022-09 - 2023-09)
- Enter manufacturing facility clean rooms using aseptic technique to collect environmental monitoring samples
- Use cGMP and report data in LIMs
- Test water bioburden samples using Biological Safety Cabinets; as well as coliform presence
- Read and report bacterial and fungal colony counts
- Test incoming agar media to ensure conformity with our samples
- Process settling and personnel monitoring plates from manufacturing facilities
- Perform gram and spore stain, read results using microscopy
- Aid in laboratory shipments and general cleanliness of the lab
Surgical Veterinary Assistant - Port City Veterinary Referral Hospital - Portsmouth, NH
(2021-05 - 2022-08)
- Use aseptic technique to sterilely prepare patients for surgery
- Aid technicians and surgeons in general care and recovery of patients
- Organize and clean operating rooms, as well as prep areas
- Scrub in on certain procedures, particularly orthopedic, to aid surgeon with tool management and positioning
- Aid technicians in taking radiographs and CTs, particularly for orthopedic and emergency cases
- Run urinalysis and various blood tests for pre-op and post-op testing
- Provide coverage for internal medicine, emergency, and ophthalmology as needed
