Management Training

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KALIAH S. JACKSON

EDUCATION

June 2008-May 2012 South Carolina State University Orangeburg, SC GPA: 3.52 Degree: BS in Chemistry (Pre-Health) Minor: Biology

March 2013- Present Keller Graduate School of Management Chicago, IL

MBA in progress (Concentration-Project Management) EXPERIENCE

July 2012-Present Alion Science and Technology Associate Chemist

● Responsible for managing deposition projects and customer correspondence, formulation of coatings, receiving and inspection of parts, shipping, receiving and handling of hazardous chemicals, reading blueprints and cleaning, masking, priming, demasking and touching up parts, optical testing on all coatings and samples, writing test and deposition reports, batch card and SOP maintenance, and training and supervision of new employees and lab personal. All work done in accordance with ISO 9001:2008 Quality system.

May 2011-Aug 2011 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Undergraduate Research Intern

● Synthesized gold nanorods

● Conducted experiments using gold nanorods and fluorescent dye under Raman infra-red laser

May 2010- July 2010 University of South Carolina NSF-REU (Research experience for undergraduates)

● Synthesized gold nanoparticles; purified amyloid-β by column purification; used UV-vis and flourometer.

● Performed aggregation experiments with amyloid-β and gold nano spheres to simulate brain activity of patients experiencing Alzheimer’s disease.

June 2009-May2011 South Carolina State University (SCSU) Undergraduate Research Intern

● Biomedical Research on Alzheimer’s disease (For the prevention of protein aggregation)

Synthesized gold nanoparticles; used UV-vis and flourometer

Lab management (in charge of the lab and all of the experiments that were conducted)

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION

*First Aid/AED/CPR Certified with the American Red Cross

*Training in the use of balances, centrifuges, desiccators, pipettes, filtration and purification systems and columns, storage cabinets, hoods, hot and stir plates, Transmission electron microscope, flourometer, Uv-vis, mass spectrometers, furnaces, coatings filtration systems, SOP and batch card maintenance, reading blueprints and several other laboratory instruments.

*DOT hazardous shipping certified

AWARDS

January 2011- Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Research

October 2010- South Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation (SCAMP) regional meeting at Claflin University

● 1st place- Outstanding presentation on Gold nanoparticles as inhibitors of amyloid- beta aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease

October 2010- National Organization of Black Chemist and Chemical Engineers (NOBCCHE) regional meeting in Atlanta, GA

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