Quality Assurance Technician
Resume:
Rodel Wade, Jr.
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Professional Skills And Abilities
Relevant Work Skills
Leadership Skills
Coordination of personnel during surgeries
Circulation and Scrub Nurse which includes preparation of surgical suite for surgeries with equipment
and surgical instruments
Management and Maintenance of surgical suite, clean storage areas, and necropsy room
Guidance and Resource for Good Laboratory Practices, audit process and Environmental Health and
Safety
Assignment of tasks to student employees
Organization and implementation of monthly group initiatives
Manage safety compliance of over 30 staff personnel for laboratory
Implementation of Study Protocols.
Management of inventory including equipment maintenance and operation, ordering supplies, and supply
tracking
Lead Technician - Implement/management of multiples studies, creation and maintenance of study data
books
Technical Skill
Handling rodents, non- human primates, canines, felines, porcine, ovine and rabbits
Collected Samples for Analysis - blood, feces, urine, milk and tissues (brain, spine, heart, etc.)
Administration or collection routes - IV, IM, IP, subcutaneous, orbital sinus femoral and jugular vein,
vena cava, cardiac puncture, oral gavage
Analysis of blood - centrifuge and processing whole blood
Necropsy of rodents and sheep and harvesting of brains, dorsal root ganglion and legs with accompanying
tissues
Operation of tunnel washer, autoclave, fluoroscope, CT, rack washer
Euthanasia of moribund animals
Expression of rodent bladders
C5 Laminectomy followed by a contusion injury
Cold sectioning of spinal cords onto slides
Operation of magstim device to measure Magnetic Motor Evoked Potentials
Perfusion via cardiac puncture of rodents with para formaldehyde
Preparation/ Execution of Nissel Myelin staining
Sterile Scrub to prepare surgical site
Collection of vaginal fluid for estrus determination
Animal Husbandry - cage changing, temperature/ humidity management, and overall vivarium
maintenance and cleanliness
Preparation of stock solutions, analgesics, antibiotics
Clinical observations which include body weights, overall health, food consumption, etc.
Handling of neonate rodent and rabbit pups, determination of parturition, and weaning/ culling
Mating of rodents and rabbits - mating plug detection and random selection of breeding pairs
Behavior Data Collection skills
Hargreaves Testing for Thermal Hyperalgesia
Running Catwalk gait analysis along with collection of that data
Passive Avoidance
Righting Behavior in pups
Functional Observational Battery
Administrative Skills
Quality control and quality assurance audits of raw data during and after end of study
Written responses to safety and quality assurance audits including maintenance of MSDS sheets
Maintenance/ organization of hard and soft standard operating procedures including creation and revision
Proficient with data capture applications including Microsoft Office Suite
Data Management - collection, organization of hard and soft data, and computer aided analysis
Publications
Côté M-P, Detloff MR, Wade, Jr. RE, Lemay, MA., Houlé JD. Plasticity in ascending long propriospinal
and descending supraspinal pathways in chronic cervical spinal cord injured rats ( Front Physiol)
2012.
Detloff, MR, Wade, Jr. RE, Houlé, JD. Chronic at- and below-level pain following unilateral cervical
spinal cord contusion in rats. Journal of Neurotrauma 2012; PMID: 23216008 In Press.
Education
Masters of Science, Laboratory Animal Science, Drexel University, 2011
Bachelors of Science, General Zoology, Michigan State University, 2005
Relevant Work History
University of Pennsylvania, New Bolton Center, Comparative Orthopedic Research Laboratory,
Philadelphia, PA
Large Animal O.R. Technician/ GLP Assistant, Aug. 2011 - June 2012
Quality Assurance Assistant, March 2012 - June 2012
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,
Animal Laboratory Research Intern, May 2011 - Aug 2011
Drexel University, College of Medicine, Spinal Cord Research Center, Philadelphia, PA
Research Assistant/ Safety Officer, Nov 2009- May 2011
Cephalon Inc. West Chester, PA, Rodent Technician, Sept. 2008- June 2009
Charles River Laboratories, Horsham, PA, Research Technician I, Apr. 2007 - July 2008
MPI Research Inc. Mattawan, MI, Research Technician I, Apr. 2005 - Dec. 2005
References
Megan R. Detloff, Ph.D.
Spinal Cord Research Center
Neurobiology and Anatomy
Drexel University College of Medicine
2900 Queen Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19129
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Renee Rawls Lead Technologist
University of Pennsylvania
Biomedical Research Building II/III
421 Curie Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
phone: 215-***-****
fax: 215-***-****
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