Mashaba Rashid

adgorh@r.postjobfree.com • 703-***-**** • http://linkedin.com/in/mashaba-rashid-abb47414b • San Francisco, CA Education:

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Graduation: May 2020 Bachelor of Science in Engineering,

Minor: Chemistry

Skills:

Software: SolidWorks, Inventor, MATLAB, Arduino, LabVIEW, C++, AutoCAD, Excel Electrical: Digital & Analog Circuits, Biomedical Instrumentation testing and design Labs:In-Cell Western,Western Blotting, PCR,Histology, Cell culture Start Ups:Curriculum building,Budgeting Team Management,Website Building,Grants,Sponsorships, Nonprofit Process,Social Media/PR,Event Planning,Branding Logistics Languages:Spanish (proficient), Bengali (fluent)

Other:Design Controls, Statistics, Project Management, 3-D Printing, Medical Devices Assembly, Laser Cutting, CNC Milling.

Experience

Renegade.Bio, Clinical Laboratory Engineer, Oakland, CA August 2020-Present o Learn how to interface between different servers/programs (ex:PrimaryBio) o Learn cGMP

o Write SOPs for improving assays for COVID-19 testing o Conduct COVID-19 vaccine research

o Learn how to streamline accessioning and plating PCR and creating a sustainable and efficient process o Learn how to maintain aseptic techniques

o Learn how to make automated machines to conduct COVID-19 PCR testing Virginia Commonwealth University, Engineering World Health, Richmond, VA, January 2020-May 2020 o Learned how to repair medical devices such as wheelchairs, oscilloscopes and MRI machines at MCV hospital o Used basic tools like multimeters, voltmeters, screwdrivers, wrenches and machine specific software Vertically Integrated Projects, Team Lead, Richmond, VA, August 2018- May 2019 o Built and programmed a load monitoring and displacement control bioreactor for soft tissue simulation. o Budgeted and spent below $1,000 to produce the bioreactor, the cheapest in the market o Utilized skills such as prototyping the CAD models on SolidWorks, determining which mechanical components were ideal for an incubator, wiring the circuit and creating the program code to run it. o 3-D printed and machined the components. Assembled the mechanical and machined parts together to create a working bioreactor.

o Provided the bioreactor to a soft tissue engineering lab at VCU’s College of Engineering where they use it to run tests. o Wrote grants and received the Sternheimer award, which provided extra seed funding for our project. o Utilized LabView to code the movements so that the bioreactor has displacement steps of 0.5 mm and tensile hold/cyclic at 1 Hz and 0.75 A.

o Preformed FEA

Virginia Commonwealth University,Undergraduate Research Assistant, Richmond, VA, October 2015-September 2018 o Assisted a Professor with his research in muscle dystrophy o Wrote and submitted grant proposals

o Became knowledgeable in lab protocol and safety. o Developed procedures for various research experiments. o Ran various assays, such as In-Cell Western, PCR and Western Blotting. o Cultured cells

o Learned how to perform histology based projects and analyze the data under the microscope and using software. o Conducted animal surgeries, on rats and rabbits to use to further my research. o Learned how to effectively read and annotate research from journals such as Nature. o Wrote abstracts and papers regarding my research projects and presented posters at various symposiums. o Dean's Undergraduate Research Initiative (2017)-Conducted my own research project, for which I wrote the guidelines and procedures as well as the final paper. This was presented at the Annual BMES conference. o Published Works:

Aged Decellularized Muscle Matrix Negatively Impacts Myogenic Differentiation and Fusion-

Integrin Alpha7 Silencing Regulates Connexin 43 and M-Cadherin via the ERK Pathway and Reduces Myoblast Fusion