Quality Control Project Management

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JENNIFER L. TAYLOR

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SUMMARY

Project Management Experience: Collaborated with a team of federal, state and industry partners on

developing nucleic acid assays, and designed quality controls to assess assay performance.

Extensive Communication Skills: Experience sharing scientific information in customer faced training,

presenting developments at internal seminars as well as external conferences, and lecturing at a community

college.

Expertise in Technical Writing and Record Keeping: Contributed writing to a technical consensus

guideline, tracked data for a proficiency testing program, and authored several peer-reviewed publications.

Experience in Regulatory Compliance: Developed quality control materials that evaluate assay performance

and evaluated laboratories that are regulated by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Extensive Research Expertise: Identified molecular analytes and platforms that can be implemented in

newborn screening programs and developed a gene expression system for gene therapy applications.

EXPERIENCE

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, GA

Postdoctoral Fellow 3/11-Present

• Project Management: Collaborated with Biogen Idec and state public health laboratories on implementing

a low cost molecular assays using dried blood spots samples.

• Research Expertise: Designed a nucleic acid techniques for newborn bloodspot screening with a team of

research scientists. Designed quality controls made from cultured adherent and suspended cell lines.

• Writing Technical Guideline: Summarized the development of reference materials in the Clinical

Laboratory and Standards Institute (CLSI document I/LA36), a consensus guidelines, for implementing severe

combined immunodeficiency (SCID) for usage within the healthcare community

• Data Tracking: Tracked data for a pilot proficiency testing program for domestic laboratories that do

population-based screening.

• Internal/External Presentations: Presented to the newborn screening community on the development

of reference materials for SCID. Also presented at internal seminar on the development of digital PCR assays.

• Customer Faced Communication: Trained 10 newborn screening programs on developing and validating

molecular assays for SCID and making quality control materials.

• Quality Management: Produced large quantities of quality control materials to assess assay

performance, and evaluated DNA extraction and real-time PCR protocols in CMS regulated laboratories.

• Highthroughput Production: Converted a manual method to an automated system which effectively

maximize assay output and minimized instrument downtime.

• Global Customer Assistance: Provided reference materials to domestic and international laboratories,

and customer support for assay development and validation.

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EXPERIENCE

Georgia Perimeter College (GPC) Atlanta, GA

1/12-Present

Part-time Instructor

• Technical Communication: Conducted and designed lectures and laboratory experiments for college

level general chemistry.

Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA

8/05 - 12/10

Research Assistant

• Project Management: Led project to develop gene expression systems in a retroviral construct to be used

in gene therapy applications

• Mammalian Cell Culture Expertise: Developed assays testing enzyme functionality in mammalian cell

culture

• Publications: Authored and presented 2 articles for publication in scientific journals

EDUCATION Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA

Graduation May 2011

Ph.D., Chemistry (Specialized in Biochemistry)

George Mason University Fairfax, VA

B.S., Chemistry Graduation: May 2005

HONORS/ 2011-Present

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Fellowship

ACTIVITIES 2012-2013

Scientist Mentoring and Diversity Program Scholar for the Biotechnology Sector

2007-Present

National Org. of Black Chemist and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) Member

2001-Present

American Chemical Society Member

PUBLICATIONS/ PRESENTATIONS

Taylor JL, Yazdanpanah GK, Lee FK, Vogt RF: Determining Absolute Quantitative Values for Reference Materials

from Molecular Counting without the Use of Standards: Oral Presentation at the CDC 2013 Summer Division of

Laboratory Science Symposium

Taylor JL, Waters-Pick B, Yazdanpanah G, Michael Cogley3, etc.: Preparation and Evaluation of Dried Blood Spot

Reference Materials for Measuring T-cell Receptor Excision Circles (TREC): Poster Presentation at the 2013

Newborn Screening and Genetic Symposium

Cowan EA, Taylor JL, Oldham CD, Dasari M, Murthy N, May SW: Effects of phenylaminoethyl selenides on

peroxide-mediated chemiluminescence of peroxalate nanoparticle and on LPS-induced oxidative stress in

human embryonic HEK293T cells: Enzyme and Microbial Technology (In press).

Taylor JL, Rohatgi P, Spencer HT, Doyle DF, Azizi B: Characterization of a molecular switch system that regulates

gene expression in mammalian cells through a small molecule. BMC Biotechnology, 10(1):15.

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