Engineer Engineering
Resume:
Yanli Jiao
Evanston, IL 60202
M: 614-***-****
****.****@*****.***
CAREER FOCUS
To work as research associate in the field of food science and analysis or related fields that can effectively utilize my laboratory skills, knowledge and experience.
QAULIFICATIONS/SKILLS
Analytical chemistry:
HPLC
LC-MS
Basic chemistry (pH, acid/base titrations)
Protein Biochemistry
Protein expression
ELISA
SDS-PAGE
Western blotting
Column Chromatography
Molecular Biology:
Cell/Bacteria culture
PCR
Aseptic and sterile techniques
Clean-room techniques
Food Process Technology:
Spray drying
High pressure process
Ultrasonic technique
HACCP Certification
WORK/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Sep,2015
to
Dec,2016
Applied Biomolecular Technologies, Inc Columbus, OH Research Associate
FSC project: designed and optimized a novel biosensing system / kits for rapid detection of pathogen or infectious agents.
ProclaRx project: conducted a medical discovery to break down and destroy biofilms that protects bacteria and prevents antibiotics and the body’s immune system from eradicating chronic infections. Role: Serve as a research associate at the genetic engineering and cell biology team to perform molecular biology assays, including cell and bacteria culture and protein purification and expression. Also, design experiments, analyze data, write protocols and prepare media, buffers and reagents. Jul,2011
to
Sep,2012
Guangzhou Puzheng Bio-Technology Co., Ltd Guangzhou, China R&D Engineer
Contributed in new products (fortificated dairy gel candy) development and maintain and evaluation of products stability.
Role: Serve as a R&D Engineer at research and development group to design and development new products; involved in process procedure to improve the products formulation and conducted sensory evaluation, improve flavor and taste. And performed routine laboratory quality analyses, such as testing of sugar concentration, pH, ash content and stability. Jan. 2014
to
Sep.2015
Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL
Graduate Student Researcher
Participated in a laboratory research aimed to detect Vitamin of rice and evaluate process procedure effort on nutrient and arsenic content of rice.
Achievements: Evaluation rinsing and cooking preparation in an effort to reduce the concentration of nutrients, such as Niacin, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine, Thiamine and Folic Acid in the rice by HPLC and LC- MS. And evaluated preparation effect on total arsenic and arsenic species reduction in rice.
Participated in a project: HACCP analysis of orange juice processing Sep.2008
to
June.2011
South China Agricultural University Guangzhou, China Graduate Student Researcher
Contributed in a research related to completed usage of Sheep Placenta (Master’s thesis): prepared peptides from sheep placenta and test the immune-competence of the peptides by cell proliferation experiment; prepared protein powers by proteases and spray drying and studied the antioxidant capacity of dried proteins power.
Established methods to extract arecoline by enzymolysis and ethanol from leaching and tested the arecoline concentration by HPLC.
Designed modified methods to pulverize tea using low temperature methods, including high pressure, liquid nitrogen and enzymolysis, and tested ingredients and quality and senses by GC-MS.
Investigated the sterilization effect of three different methods, high pressure, pasteurization and inorganic ceramic membrane on pineapple juice and milk. PUBLICATION
2015 IFT Annual meeting & Food Expo in Chicago, IL; July, 2015 Title: The Effect of Rinsing Procedures to Reduce the Arsenic Content in Cooked North American Long Grain White Rice and the Evaluation of the Remaining Nutrients
Jiao Y L, Guo X M, Yang G M, et al. Study on Ultrasonic Extraction of Activity Protein from Sheep Placenta. Food and Fermentation Industries, 2011, 37(11): 20-24.
Du B, Jiao Y L, Jiang D W, et al. Study on quality of green tea grinding with liquid nitrogen and low temperature. Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering, 2012, 28 (2):256-261. EUCATION
2015 Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL, US Master of Food Process Engineering; GPA: 4.0/4.0
2011 South China Agricultural University (SCAU) Guangzhou, China Master of Science Food Science; GPA: 85/100
2008 Shaanxi Normal University Xi’an, China
Bachelor of Food Science and Engineering; GPA: 84/100 EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Secretary Department Minister, Graduate Union of College of Food Science, SCAU.
Teaching Assistant : Agricultural Products Processing & Storage, Food Analysis & Food Chemistry course (lab), SCAU, China.
Volunteer, TED xIIT 2014.
Volunteer for 2015 IFT Cares Volunteer Activity
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Flexible to work different shifts, overtimes, weekends and travel.
Hands on experience in MS-word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS-Outlook and Adobe Photoshop.
Good team player with exemplary analytical and problem solving skills.
Ability to work under aggressive timelines and multiplie task assignments.
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