Manager Assistant

Resume NENY SITORUS (Annie)

Phone: +64-21-026***** Email: ***********@*****.***

Professional Summary

Experience in various research projects for more than ten years. Advanced skills in training and hands-on experience on bacterial, hybridoma and mammalian cell culture, immunohistochemistry, DNA isolation, PCR, qPCR and sequencing, protein purification and characterisation. Enthusiastic and adaptive process development scientist offers extensive knowledge on variety of research projects from basic to diagnostic applications in various research institutions, hospitals and manufacturing.

Key Executive Skills

Cell culture

Executive presentations

Diagnostic research

Forensic medicine

Education & training

Cell imaging and encapsulation

Research methodology

Experimental design

Budgetary control

Molecular biology techniques

Report writing

Data collection and analysis

Personal Attributes

Confident, articulate and able to conduct presentations in various environments

Self-motivated with enthusiasm and energy to meet the deadlines

Able to develop or invent new methods in a wide range of experiments

Master of Science (Honours), The University of Auckland

Core competencies

Research competency

Conducting experiments, recording and analyzing data

Preparing design of experiments

Research collaboration with multi-national and multi-cultural laboratories

Cognitive competency

Excellent analytical skills and problem solving abilities

Attention to detail and accuracy

Continuous improvement with relevant scientific and technical developments

Communication competency

Excellent written and spoken English

Proven experience in presentations

Supervise and motivate junior staff and postgraduate students

Technical skills

Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, Access, Power Point

Bioinformatics, Sigma Stat, Sigma Plot, SAP

Employment and Development History

The University of Auckland Jul 2015 - Present

Researcher at the School of Biological Sciences (Jul 2015 – Nov 2016)

Administrative support officer (Nov 2015 ~ Present)

Elo Karsa Utama - Indonesia Jun 2011 - Apr 2014

A leading distributor for biotechnology, microbiology and life sciences product in Indonesia.

Product Manager

Reporting to the Managing Director in Jakarta.

Key responsibilities and achievements include:

Defined product strategies and roadmaps for Thermo Scientific and Sigma Aldrich products

Responsible for providing necessary technical support for sales team, including promotional materials, education and product training, organized seminars and conferences

Collaborated with multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research institutions

Specified market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers

SBDC (Santosa Hospital), Sanbe Pharma Group Company - Indonesia Jun 2010 – Jun 2011

A private hospital, collaboration with overseas hospital and institutions such as Victoria Heart Centre, Australia and SingHealth, Singapore

Assistant Biotech Coordinator

Reporting to Head of Biotech Coordinator

Key responsibilities and achievements include:

Assisted biotech coordinator and performed tasks as assigned

Carried out hybrid capture and PCR for diagnostics purpose

Verified the projects for accuracy, completeness, compliance and effectiveness

Managed budget expenditure periodically

Developed new methods for diseases detection techniques

Caprifarmindo Laboratories, PT, Sanbe Pharma Group Company Mar 2010 – Jun 2010

Foreign joint venture enterprise, WHO, GMP and TGA Australia approved, and Pharmaceutical Inspection Cooperation/Scheme (PIC’s) compliant manufacturing facility

Assistant Head of Diagnostic Lab/R&D

Reporting to General Manager

Key responsibilities and achievements include:

Supported lab-head for ensuring products are developed are developed to the highest standards

Supervised analytical testing in the R&D laboratory and staff training

Ordered lab equipment’s within allocated budget

Improved lab methods of molecular biology protocols

Cancer Science Institute (CSI), National University of Singapore Oct 2009 – Nov 2009

As one of only five institutions in Singapore awarded a $172 million “Research Centre of Excellence” grant by the government

Laboratory Executive

Reporting to Laboratory Manager

Key responsibilities and achievements include:

Facilitated lab members to perform lab work compliance with safety rules

Supervised and monitored lab equipments and devices and assisted lab manager to purchase equipments met within allocated budget

Improved hybridoma cell culture protocols

Accomplished monoclonal antibody production

National Cancer Centre of Singapore (NCCS) Aug 2008 – Aug 2009

One of the leading regional centres for research and treatment of cancer and has pioneered the one-stop multi-disciplinary approach

Research Officer

Reporting to Principal Investigator

Key responsibilities and achievements include:

Acted as a project leader for lab experiments and methods development

Conducted routine lab procedures such as cell culture, western blotting, PCR, cell encapsulation and imaging techniques

Accomplished mouse tumor model work as a team

Developed new methods of cancer detection and anti-cancer drug therapy

Supervised research team in conducting research

Looked after the administrative job book-keeping, cataloguing and purchase ordering instruments, materials, and consumables

Primary caregiver for my child and undertake some part time teaching work as a relief teacher in International Community School, Singapore from 2004-2008

Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology - Indonesia Nov 1995 – Oct 2004

Most well-known for the discovery by Christiaan Eijkman that Beriberi was caused by a lack of thiamine in the human body

Research Assistant

Reporting to Lab Manager

Key responsibilities and achievements include:

Maintained mammalian cell culture of CPEO, LHON, diabetes mellitus type 2 and obesity patients

Conducted PCR, cloning, sequencing, primer design, immunohistochemistry, SDS PAGE, ELISA and dot blot protocol

Carried out monoclonal antibody production

Animal laboratory handling

Developed DNA isolation methods for forensic medicine and archive samples

Tertiary Qualifications

Master of Science (Honours)

School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

Postgraduate Diploma in Science

The University of Queensland, Australia

Bachelor in Science (Honours)

Padjadjaran University, Indonesia

Non-Tertiary Qualifications

Training:

2013 Sigma Aldrich Biology Products Training, Jakarta, 20 Feb – 1 March 2013

SP & A Advanced Training, Thermo Scientific Tokyo, 22-26 May 2012

Sigma Aldrich Distributors’ Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, 3-4 Oct 2011

Responsible Care & Use of Laboratory Animal Course (RCULAC), SingHealth, Singapore, 2008

In-house Safety Induction Programme for Researchers, SingHealth, Singapore, 2008

Arista Biologicals Inc., Philadelphia USA – Scheiler & Schuell Bioscience GmbH, Germany, 1999

Publication:

Sudoyo H, Suryadi H, Sitorus N, Soegondo S, Pranoto A, Marzuki S (2003). Mitochondrial genome and susceptibility to diabetes mellitus. Adv Exp Med Biol 531:19-36, available on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12916778

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4615-0059-9_2#page-1

Tropical diseases from molecule to bedside. Sangkot Marzuki, Jan Verhoef, Harm Snippe, available on http://books.google.co.id/books?id=mSd5dFAxyl4C&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=Neny+Sitorus&source=bl&ots=

1hfLystfZ&sig=XtXstafrnZfYh2ekCXTtWlXn4xs&hl=id&ei=b8w2TLjaDoqVrAfrvIGzAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct= result&resnum=3&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Neny%20Sitorus&f=false

http://www.springer.com/medicine/internal/book/978-0-306-47799-7

Sitorus, N. (2016). Can gut-lymph become toxic for mitochondria in sepsis and acute pancreatitis? The University of Auckland. ResearchSpace@Auckland.

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/30956

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