Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

Work History

• Mindful Media Management
• Editor and Social Media Manager
• January 2010 to Present

• - Assists with research supporting sales and marketing, including online marketing opportunities and social media outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
  - Maintains communication with the online community, including emails, blogs, posting on Facebook, Tweeting, etc.
  - Supervises content development.
  - Helps maintain and update blog content on client websites.
  - Over 5 years of experience in both writing and editing scientific documents, novels, zine articles, and blog posts.
  - Performs edits for overall wordiness, replaces inappropriate words, and eliminates obvious spelling errors. Rearranges sentences and paragraphs if necessary.
  - Currently under contract with Laura Kreitzer, author, for the second book in the Timeless Series, Soul Stalker. Edited the first book, Shadow of the Sun, pro bono.

• Charles River Pathology Associates
• Research Associate
• Febuary 2009 to Present

• - Prepares and revises pre-clinical technical reports, summaries, protocols, and quantitative analyses for 5 veterinary pathologists.
  - Consistently meets and exceeds protocol and sponsor-specified deadlines for reports and other deliverables.
  - Maintains familiarity with current scientific literature in relevant journals.
  - Investigates, creates, and develops new methods and technologies for project advancement via journal articles and internet research.
  - Frequently audits internal process structures and data to eliminate excess and streamline operations.

• Charles River Pathology Associates
• Electron Microscopy Technician II
• January 2008 to Present

• - Operates and maintains both scanning and transmission electron microscopy equipment.
  - Processes, embeds, trims and faces blocks, thick and thin sections blocks, and stains grids.
  - Improved productivity approximately 15% during the first year of employment by making small adjustments to bulk procedures to optimize overall efficiency.
  - Performs darkroom procedures.
  - Keeps records and evaluates/reports according to facility established SOPs.

• Athenix Corporation (Now Bayer)
• Nematologist/Molecular Biologist
• September 2006 to January 2008

• - Performed plant and nematode bioassays utilizing C. elegans, H. shactii, H. glycines, and Meloidogyne spp.
  - Optimized bioassays approximately 12% during the first six months of employment by restructuring the processes for efficiency.
  - Independently executed extensive SDS-PAGE, pH extractions of proteins, and Southern and Western Blots.
  - Optimized molecular techniques approximately 8% during the first six months of employment by condensing the processes to their core components.

• William Paterson University of New Jersey
• Biology Graduate Teaching Assistant
• November 2005 to June 2006

• - Prepared, organized, educated, and graded 50+ undergraduate students in multiple biology lecture/lab classrooms.
  - Acted as liaison between the faculty and the 200+ undergraduate biology student body.

Education

• William Paterson University of New Jersey
• Master of Science, Biotechnology
• 2004 - 2006

• Masters topic: Familial Interstitial Lung Disease and the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System

• Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
• Biology, Microbiology
• 1999 - 2003

• Minor: Chemistry

  Activities and Societies:
  Marching Band, Concert Band, Women's Choral Group, Tau Beta Sigma