SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Fourth year student completing an Honors Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Ottawa

Experience in quantitative and qualitative data analysis, graph and chart construction to visualize changing trend of results

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills honed through one-year customer service experience

Superior proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power point and SPSS

Excellent oral and written communication skills in English

Experience in literature searching including libraries and web sites as a result of several school research papers I have written in my four years of education

Strong analytical and organizational skills obtained through research experience, organizing and compiling data for analysis

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Research and analytical skills

Collected and analyzed data from social interaction and preference behavioral testing in adult rats using SPSS to perform three-way ANOVA for the male and female groups

Constructed graphs and charts of the results gotten from SPSS to demonstrate a visualize trend of the behavioural changes in each rat group as a result of the drug

Interpreted the rats’ behaviour using the results during the social interaction test in respect to social anxiety, social affiliation and social memory

Developed a questionnaire on attitudes of college students to the Ontario new sex education curriculum for elementary school children

Surveyed about 50 participants to fill out the online questionnaire on the Ontario Curriculum Grades 1-8 Health and Physical education and converted the responses to quantitative data for analysis

Communication skills

Delivered an oral presentation to over 60 students and professors for my honors thesis on the testing of a drug that inhibits TrkB/BDNF signaling called ANA-12 on stress and non-stress adolescent rat groups to demonstrate the antidepressant and anxiolytic properties and its impact on social behaviours of the rats in adulthood

Delivered a medical presentation to groups of over 50 students in a neuroscience class in order to create awareness about brain cancer

Facilitated and motivated a small group of 10 high school students in creating a cartoon-like model of evolution for a national science competition in order to be offered a full scholarship into university

Resolved customers’ issues such as exchange policy and damaged product after purchase with delicacy and calmness

Persuaded home owners in employing a foundation company to fix their house construction problems and was offered bonuses for each customer referred by me

Worked with other team members on a school project which was on creating an anti-advertisement campaign for an advertising class, I was in charge of delegating different aspects of the project to each member and supervising the progress of the project and we won the award for best campaign

Leadership skills

Volunteered as a Summer Play and learn coordinator, and assisted in organizing games and craft work for young children from ages 1-19 with disabilities at Rogers House palliative care in Ottawa

Volunteered at Good Shepherd Centre Hamilton, and assisted in wrapping Christmas gifts and distributing them to children who lived in homeless shelters

Participated in a food drive in Nigeria and delivered homemade meals as well as raw food ingredients to about 70 people in different local government areas in Lagos state

Participated in charity walk organized by First Bank

EDUCATION

Honors B.SC. Psychology

University of Ottawa, Ontario September 2012 - present

Expected graduation date: June, 2016

Projects:

oWrote my honours thesis on the role of ANA-12 in modulating BDNF signaling upon repeated stress exposure in adolescent male and female rats and the enduring effects on social interaction and memory in adulthood

oCreated an anti-advertisement on Canada’s Marineland with a subversive message on the cruel treatment of marine animals in marine theme parks, and my video was chosen as the best by AdBuster organization

oQuantitative methods in Psychology I and II

oSocial Psychology

AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Admission Scholarship, University of Ottawa, ON September 2012

National Institute Animal User Certification, University of Ottawa, ON May 2015

WHMIS Certification, University of Ottawa, ON January 2015

Lab safety training at the University of Ottawa, ON May 2015

Havana Specialist hospital work report, Lagos, Nigeria April 2010

WORK EXPERIENCE

Marketing associate

My Ottawa foundation, Ottawa, ON March 2016- March 2016

Advertised the different foundation repair services such as crack injection, parging, waterproofing repairs to potential customers at the Ottawa House and garden show

Assisted in setting up the kiosk for the House show, and cleaned up after the show

Generated leads and took down customers’ contact information for future follow ups and to provide free estimate for structural diagnostic

Door to door advertising /Sales associate

My Ottawa foundation, Ottawa, ON May 2015 – August 2015

Advertised for the company by distributing flyers and taking appointments for consultation.

Educated and assisted potential customers on different foundation services and discounts offered.

Sales associate

Shopper’s delight Supermart, Lagos, Nigeria June 2010 – August 2011

Delivered excellent customer service with floor sales and assisted customers with purchases.

Responsible for the everyday running of the store duties such as: order stock, and replacing the shelves from the store’s stockroom.

Responsible for managing inventory, and required to price products and update shelves when a new product comes in.

Handled sale transactions and operated the cash register.

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPEREIENCE

Research Assistant

Cerebro-Vascular Accidents and Behavioral Recovery lab at University of Ottawa, ON February 2015- April 2015

Scored about 212 behavioral test videos of adult male rats using ODLOG

Conducted statistical analysis of the data obtained from scoring using SPSS to perform two-way ANOVA, repeated measures, multi-variate statistics and reporting the significant and non-significant result based on whether the p value less than 0.05.

Executed social interaction, preference, elevated plus maze, Y- maze and Y-maze CPP behavioral experiments with the stressed and non- stressed male rat groups

Performed euthanasia, brain dissection after running experiments on the rats and determined the estrus cycle of the female rats from their vaginal discharge under a microscope

Summer Play and Learn Coordinator (Volunteer)

Roger’s House, Ottawa, ON May 2013- September 2015

Assisted with the care of child/youth diagnosed with life limiting illnesses, residing at Roger’s House for temporary respite care

Worked with a multidisciplinary team, supervising, playing and entertaining children and youths

Organized trips to the mall and parks for the children and teenagers with the assistance of a registered nurse and other play and learn volunteers in case of an emergency

Student mentor

Columbia International College, Hamilton, ON January 2012 – April 2012

Counselled students individually and in small groups in order to provide direction and assistance towards future university programs

Assisted students with their school work and directed them to tutors for further assistance in challenging courses

Coordinated with parents, teachers, and staffs in organizing various school and non-related school programs such as prom, Halloween dance, charity events etc. resulting in a successful event

Intern at the Obstetrics and Gynecology department

Havana Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria April 2010 – April 2010

Organized patient files according to arrival date and matter of urgency in order to provide easy access for the doctors when dealing with patient with severe health conditions

Took notes of further complications the patients might be experiencing during morning checkup so as to update patient files

Assisted in a Caesarean surgical operation by getting blood from the blood bank when all hands were involved in the surgery

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