Magdalena Pierzchala

****N. Windsor Dr. apt.#**3

Arlington Heights IL 60004

Phone # 773-***-****

Email: abjnlz@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

To get a job as a chemist where my creative skills, lab experience can be used and where I will solidify a

strong foundation in science field.

Work Experience

Laboratory assistant at Triton Community College, River Grove, IL - 2002

Duties:

- prepare and set up laboratory for students

- make solutions, dilute solutions and test procedures

- order and stock laboratory supplies

- refractive index, recrystallization, distillation, sublimation, vacuum and gravity filtration

- thin-layer and paper chromatography

Microbiology Technician at Sterigenics Company, Itasca, IL - 2006-2007

Duties:

- preparing media

- measuring pH

- growth promotion testing

- writing and checking reports

Microbiologist and Chemist at Northland Laboratory- 2008-2010

Experience and duties as a chemist:

-working on Leco instrument analyzing proteins

-working Karl Fisher instrument analyzing moisture

-analyzing the amount of heavy metals and different analytes in food and liquid samples using Inductively

Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry

- performing some tests like patulin or sodium benzoate using HPLC instrument

-wet chemistry tests (fat acid hydrolysis, Roese Gottlieb peroxide value, salt Volhard, heavy metals USP

method, viscosity, alkalinity, acidity, moisture, ash, free fatty acids, pH)

-working on and performing shelf life studies

Experience and duties as a microbiologist:

-performing PABA test for penicillin

-working on FDA/BAM, AOAC, USP and APHA methodologies

-working with the inoculation loops, pipettes, agar plates, knowing sterile techniques and incubation

- counting aerobic & anaerobic plates

-gel Electrophoresis, cell fractionation

-measurement of cell motility, membrane permeability

-preparing media (TSB, FTM,PBS)

-bacterial transformation, hypothesis testing and epistasis

-thin-layer and paper chromatography

Education

Loyola University Chicago,

Bachelor of Science Biology, May 2006

Triton Community College, Attended in 2001 to 2002

Cumulative GPA: 3.3, Major: biology

Computer skills:

-Microsoft office

-Lyms system (logging in samples, FDA forms)

-Excel

Activities and Honors

1 Dean’s List, Triton College, Fall 2002 (GPA, 4.0)

2 Membership of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, April 4, 2004

3 College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s List, Loyola University Chicago, Spring 2006 (GPA 3.6)

4 Certificates of Achievement for finishing training in media lab from Sterigenics Company

5 Certificate for finishing Cromeleon system Administrator training level I and II, Fall 2009

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