Technician Health

Heather E. Joyal

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Waltham, MA 02451 978-***-****

Boston University

Boston, Mass

Position: Laboratory Animal Care Technician

Experience: October 2012 to current

Responsibilities:

. Responsible for the care of mice, rats, and ferrets, frogs, zebra fish

. Conduct daily health observations and treatments of the laboratory

animals

. House mice, rats, and ferrets as they enter the facility according to

SOP

. Maintain documentation according to the guidelines and protocols of

Boston University

. Perform weekly accurate census counts

. Euthanasia experience

. Perform daily husbandry duties as assigned

. Perform duties in cage wash as needed,

EMD Serono

Billerica, Mass

Position: Contractor Senior Animal Technician/Vet tech

Experience: April 2012 to October 2012

Responsibilities:

. Conduct daily health observations and treatments of animals

. Became the vet technician while the vet tech was on maternity leave

. Administer drugs to maintain the health of the animals as well as

administer drugs for ongoing experiments to include IP, PO, gavage,

IV, RO

. Take care of all the health check reports to include treatments on

mice and rats

. Euthanasia experience

. Independently genotype, PCR, maintain, and wean two separate colonies

. Plug checks

. House mice and rats as they arrive into the facility

. Follow animal receipt procedures as they arrive and cage card printing

to include the appropriate information pertained to the specific cage

. Perform animal husbandry in accordance to the EMD Serono's SOP

. Conduct weekly inspections to maintain and keep up with any expired

materials and drugs

. Perform and record weekly census counts in the vivarium

. Perform health watches for each individual post operative care

situation for mice and rats

AVEO Pharmaceuticals

Cambridge, Mass

Position: Contractor ACF Supervisor/ Animal Tech IV

Experience: July 2011 to January 2012

Responsibilities:

. Supervised up to 6 technicians which the permanent ACF supervisor was

out on maternity leave

. Trainer in PO, IM, IP, Sub-Q for the technicians to help with any

necessary technical support to the Research assistants

. Conduct daily health observations and treatment to the animals

. Maintain documentation and records according to the established SOP's

from AVEO, Federal and city regulations, animal welfare regulations,

and association and accreditation of laboratory animal care

accreditation requirements

. Administer drugs IV, IP, PO, and harvesting tissues for analysis.

. Lead the team to accomplish sentinel bleed submissions to Charles

River Diagnostic Laboratory for animal health monitoring

. Cardiac puncture bleeds

. Perform weekly animal census counts

. Perform animal husbandry duties to include cage changing activities

and working in the cage wash rooms

. Helped maintain rodent breeding colonies, perform sexing, weaning,

animal identification, and maintain documentation

. Provide technical support to the research staff and the technicians

. Help Research technicians with flushing of embryos, collecting

embryos, and plug checks

. Euthanasia experience

. Perform health watches for each individual post operative care needs

to include mice

. Order and inventory control of the vivarium

. Conduct monthly inspections of the vivarium for expired drugs, ware

and tare, materials

. Follow animal receipt procedures as they arrive and cage card printing

to include the appropriate information pertained to the specific cage

. Performed blood collection by retro orbital bleed, cardiac puncture

Charles River Laboratories

Wilmington, Mass

Position: Analytical Chemist

Experience: August 2010 to April 25, 2011

Responsibilities:

. Prepared analytical methods and documents to include preparation for

extraction

. Performed test and operated different laboratory instruments

. Oversaw laboratory and apparatus conditions and many other duties

assigned by scientists

. Extracted different samples to meet certain expectations and

requirements by each deadline that the study had to meet

. Communicate well with other team members to accommodate for the

individual studies being performed

. Perform under pressure to include multiple extractions from different

studies taken place at the same time

. Rapidly learn and master various computer programs such as Microsoft

Word, Excel, Watson, Analyst, Mass Spectrometry

. Filing and book keeping all in GLP setting

Charles River Laboratories

Wilmington, Mass

Position: Embryology Technologist

Experience: February 2008 to August 2010

Responsibilities:

. Rederive different cell lines as needed for the appropriate

customers

. Cryo preservation to include archiving of mouse, rat, and hamster

embryos and sperm

. Rapid colony expansion and cryo recovery from sperm and embryos

. Experienced with the use and safety of liquid nitrogen

. Experienced with the use and safety of euthanasia

. Harvest tissues for analysis

. Collection of embryos which include flushing, collecting and

freezing

. Ordering and inventory control of all the embryology labs at

Charles River Wilmington

. Timed injections (IP, sub-Q, IM, PO)

. Tail vein bleeds in rats

. Filing and book keeping all in GLP settings

. Animal identification including the CRL ear punching system

. Prepare shipments of both embryos and mice for internal and

domestic destinations

. Knowledge of genetically engineered rats and mice

. Live surgeries which include: Embryo transfers, c-sections

NUCRYST Pharmaceuticals

Wakefield, Mass

Position: Vivarium Supervisor

Experience: May 2007 to February 2008

Responsibilities:

. Oversaw entire vivarium which included maintenance and upkeep of the

vivarium

. Perform animal husbandry duties to include cage changing activities

and working in the cage wash room

. Member of the IACUC committee

. Ordering and inventory control

. Development of SOPs

. Maintained a laboratory notebook (GLP)

. Assisted in different laboratory bench work with scientists

. Experienced with the use and safety of euthanasia

. Gastric Gavage hamsters for drug administration

. Intra colonic drug administration and tail vein bleeding on rats

. Cardiac puncture blood collection on mice, rats, and hamsters

. Different ear punching for identification

. Organ harvesting

. Assisted in experimental models to include:

o Acute and chronic skin infection

o C. Difficile colitis

o Inflammatory Bowl Disease

Charles River Laboratories

Wilmington, Mass

Position: Animal Tech II

Experience: June 2005 - February 2008

Responsibilities:

. Perform animal husbandry duties to include cage changing

. Responsible for 10 six foot isolators to include breeding maintenance

. Facility maintenance to include different activities to be performed

monthly to pass inspections

. Experience with euthanasia

. Received the opportunity to join the contracting group to work and

help out other animal facilities such as:

o Charles River. Southbridge, MA ( Farm setting, worked with

dogs, goats, sheep, pigs, cows, chickens)

o Biogen Idec. Cambridge, MA (Contracted to Biogen for nine

months)

Brigham's Ice Cream

Arlington, Mass

Position: Assistant Manager

Experience: May 2003 to June 2005

Responsibilities:

. Open and close of the store

. In charge of multiple food orders

. Handling money at the register

. Preparing food orders

Education

Middlesex Community College

Taking classes towards my Associate of Science Degree (Life Science)

Taking a LAT course (Ends June 2013)

Minuteman Vocational School

Certification in Biotechnology Manufacturing - June 2005

High School Graduate-2005

OSHA Certificate - June 2005

References are available upon request.

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