LETTIE L.
HARKINS
**** *’Brien Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70810
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Career-driven professional with over 20 years of experience and an extensive background in both small business management and biotechnology.
EDUCATION
Louisiana State University
College of Arts and Sciences
B.A. Anthropology, 1989
PUBLICATIONS
Anim Reprod Sci
Vol 98 (Isss 1020: Pgs 129-146
Eilertsen, Harkins, Power & Misica, 2007
WORK EXPERIENCE
Managing Director 12/2016 - 05/2017
Louisiana International Film Festival
• Project coordination and management
• Team recruitment, supervision and retention
• Daily operations management
• Planned, coordinated and executed Louisiana International Film Festival 2017 Business/Lab Manager, Scientist 12/2004 - Present
NuPotential, Inc.
• Employee compensation and benefit plan development
• Level BSL-2 Biotech Laboratory start-up, outfit & management
• Thorough data collection and analysis
• Bookkeeping, payroll, HR admin & company account management
• Daily operation and management of internal company systems & operating policy development
• In-vitro experimentation for epigenetic based programming
• Cell culture, experimental treatment, propagation and banking of multiple human and mammalian cell lines
• Molecular assays
• HPLC/GC-MS sample prep for methylation analyses, immunocytochemistry, histochemistry, in-cell westerns, RNA & DNA purification, Gel-based RT-PCR
• In-vivo experimentation
• Mouse experimental injections, dissections and necropsy, tissue collection and preparation for histological analyses Director of Operations 09/2015 - 09/2016
EF Research
• New program implementation
• Hiring and personnel management
• Planning and organization of statewide flu shot programs
• Licensed and non-licensed healthcare background checks
• OIG compliance
Research Associate / Mass Spectrometer Operator 10/1994 - 11/2004 Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Stable Isotope Lab
• Project supervision, implementation, tracking & management
• Method development and improvement of existing methods
• Daily maintenance and operation of multiple instruments REFERENCES
Joan P. Neuscheler
President, Aura Equity Partners
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Catherine O’Brien
Business Manager, LIFF
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Dr. Kenneth Eilertsen
President, NuPotential Inc.
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