Summary

Recent college graduate with a bachelor’s in Biochemistry from Florida’s top honors college. US born citizen with strong writing, research and quantitative skills. Deep interest in supporting a biochemical research and development team as a Lab Technician or Junior Data Analyst. Strong focus and perseverance when problem solving. Exceptional ability to analyze data visually and draw conclusions. Solid skills in R and Excel. Held leadership positions within student government.

Education

New College of Florida (State Honors College), Sarasota, Florida

B.A., Biochemistry 5/20/16

Senior Thesis Project: The Isolation and Initial Enzyme Assays of the C. Elegans Protein VF13D12L.3

Independent Study Projects

Senior Thesis Project: The Isolation and Initial Enzyme Assays of the C. Elegans Protein VF13D12L.3 (2014-2016)

Starting from plasmid, isolated the C. elegans protein VF13D12L.3 using chitin bead affinity chromatography.

Subjected protein to enzyme assays using spectrophotometry to measure enzyme activity with substrates.

Performed Bradford assays to ascertain protein concentration obtained by various modifications to the chitin bead affinity chromatography procedure.

Enzyme Over-Expression and Kinetics with C. elegans Lactate Dehydrogenase (2014)

Overexpressed production of lactate dehydrogenase-1 on a plasmid using IPTG to activate a lac operon.

Experimented with changes to temperature, IPTG concentration, and other conditions to obtain a soluble protein.

Learned how to perform enzyme kinetics using a spectrophotometer and measured protein solubility and size using SDS-PAGE.

Bioinformatics (2013):

Lecture-based course taught by researcher from Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (LRRI) on bioinformatics.

Learned the programming language R as well as several packages such as Bioconductor to be used to generate models from data on gene expression.

Final project was completed that displayed information on highly active genes that controlled apoptosis in lung cells.

Projection of Lewis Structures (2012):

Project to create simple Lewis structures, commonly used to represent molecules, in a computer program.

Program took an inputted SMILES string, and generated a 2-D visual representation in a GUI created in Python.

The program ended up being able to successfully generate simple planar molecules, but unable to handle more complex ones such as ring structures.

Professional Experience

New College of Florida Student Alliance (01/14 - 01/15)

Vice President of Academic Affairs

Was appointed to the office of Vice President of Academic Affairs starting in January 2014. Served as chair and organizer of the Council of Academic Affairs, which allocates $60,000 a year to student academic projects. Met monthly with the Provost, Dean of Studies, and the Dean of the Library on academic issues. Managed the hiring process behind the Student Appointed Professor, and managed the schedules of late-night student library employees.

R&T Associates New York City, NY (05/13 - 08/13)

Technology Recruiter

Combining technical knowledge with sales work, recruited candidates for highly competitive IT jobs, screening resumes for experience with C++, mobile application development, and Java experience. Made up to a hundred cold calls a day contacting potential candidates and selling them on available openings at companies.

Software Technologies

Programming Languages/Environments: R, Python, Octave

Microsoft Office Excel (vLookups, Pivot Tables, Macros)

Microsoft Office Word

Microsoft Office Powerpoint

Other

SAT Math/Verbal Score: 730/730

ACT Composite Score: 33

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