Stephanie L. Hallit

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Boerne, Texas 78006

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Education: BS in Biology/Psychology-University of Alabama at Birmingham December 1998

Employment: Self-Employed - Boerne, TX – May 2010 - Present

Duties: Manufactured and sold crafts and artwork to Antique & Gift shops in the San Antonio, and

Boerne, TX. area, and online. Drove for LYFT. Worked and trained horses. Sold Young Living

Essential oils online, and worked as a stay at home mom.

Employment: Stanbio Laboratory – Boerne, Tx – August 2008 – May 2010

Regional Sales Associate for the Eastern US Territory

Responsibilities and Duties: Selling clinical diagnostic test kits and equipment to physician’s offices and clinics. Travel to vender meetings to promote Stanbio’s products and meet with distributors. Make daily “cold” calls to doctor’s offices in my territory to uncover leads for distribution partners. I have generated on average $8000/month in new business sales from August 2008 to present. RSA of the Quarter-June 2009

Employment: Our Lady of the Hills High School – Kerrville, Tx. - August 2006 - May 2008

Office Assistant / Library Manager / Special Projects / BCIS Instructor

Responsibilities and Duties: Office assistant to Principal, administration and faculty. Responsible for all faculty and staff benefits and other human resources tasks. Library set up and maintenance. High School teacher for High School BCIS classes. General computer & server maintenance.

Employment: Equitech-Bio, Inc. - Kerrville, Tx. - February 2004 – May 2006

Research Associate / Research and Development Department

Director of Cell Culture Laboratory / Human Resources Manager.

QC Manager

Responsibilities and Duties: Selecting appropriate cell lines for testing new sera and serum free products. Selections involve choosing suitable cell lines for the type of growth parameters needed for evaluation. Duties also include selection of new sera for evaluation and sale, formulation and testing of serum based and serum free media. Management of all aspects of protein and QC laboratory personnel. Some lab tests include electrophoretic analysis, along with numerous chemical and physical evaluations. Additional responsibilities include training of new employees in labs, recruitment and hiring of new employees for entire company.

Employment: University of Alabama at Birmingham April 1995 – June 2003

Research Assistant: UAB Department of Cell Biology - Supervisor – Dr. Tika Benveniste

Duties Included: Assist UAB MD-PhD graduate students with their research projects, and also worked with new incoming students acclimating them to the lab and teaching various assays including Ribonuclease Protection Assays, western blots, zymography and tissue culture. Supervised and trained incoming work study students on lab supply ordering, lab clean up and buffer preparations. Also helped graduate students with their projects as needed. Responsible for all lab supplies and cell line maintenance and organization. Handled all equipment maintenance issues and calibrations schedules.

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Research Assistant: UAB Department of Oral Biology Supervisor – Dr. Arthur A. DeCarlo

Duties Included: Assist new Principle Investigator with total lab setup. Grant management including all administration duties, tracking and maintenance of grant account budget, and ordering using the UAB-TPX System. ASSIST PI with all experimental protocols including optimizing assays for human micro vascular endothelial cell vessel formation in Matrigel and Type 1 collagen. Note: Job ended when PI accepted a position at another University in Florida.

Research Assistant / Lab Assistant: UAB Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics

Supervisors – Dr. Jeff Engler & Dr. Jack Windsor

Duties Included: Cell invasion and motility assays using primary cell lines established from head and neck tumor/normal tissues and the human squamous cell carcinoma cell lines to study the role of matrix metalloproteinases in cell invasion. Other various lab duties included tissue culture; storage and freezing, growing and maintaining large-scale cell factories for protein purification of MMP’s, and purification of monoclonal/polyclonal MMP antibodies. Protein assays included cell lysates, immuno-precipitation, immuno-florescence, FACS analysis, western blot and zymography. Media and buffer preparation. Operation, management and maintenance of the Oligouncleotide Core Facility. Hiring, training and supervising various personnel. Order and maintain stock of lab supplies and reagents. Assist Dental Students with summer research projects.

Publications:

Aznavoorian S, Moore BA, Alexander-Lister LD, Hallit SL, Windsor LJ, Engler JA. Membrane Type 1-Matrix Metalloproteinase-Mediated Degradation of Type-1 Collagen by Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells. Caner Research. 61 (16): 6264-75, 2001 Aug 15

Abstracts:

KJ Leon, SL Hallit, P Prabhakaran, R Jackson, J de Andrade, P O’Reilly, S Matalon, J Hickman-Davis and MA Olman. Increases in Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Predict Chronic Rejection in Lung Transplant Reciepents. Presented at the American Thoracic Society (ATS Meeting-May 2002) in Atlanta, Ga.

P Prabhakaran, LB War, KE White, MT Cross, MA Matthay, SL Hallit and MA Olman. Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 in Pulmonary Edema Fluid Identify the Cause and Predict the Outcome of Clinical Acute Lung Injury. Presented at the 18th Annual Trainee Research Symposium on 5 March, 2002.

Sha Zhu, J Stewart, KE White, SL Hallit, HA Chapman Jr, CL Gladson and MA Olman.

Urokinase Receptor Binding Site Blockage in Integrin -Chains Abrogates Human Lung Fibroblast Adhesion and Migration. Presented at the American Thoracic Society (ATS Meeting-May 2002) in Atlanta, Ga.

Technical Assistance:

Windsor LJ, Steele DL. Expression of Recombinant Matrix Metalloproteinases in Escherichia coli. Methods Mol. Biol. 2001;151:191-205.

Moore BA, Aznavoorian S, Engler JA, Windsor LJ. Induction of Collagenase-3 (MMP-13) in Rheumatoid Arthitis Synovial Finroblasts. Biochem Biophys Acta. 2000 Oct 18; 1502 (2):307-18.

Windsor LJ, Steele DL, LeBlanc SB, Taylor KB. Catalytic Domain Comparisons of Human Fibroblast-type Collagensase, Stromelysin-1, and Matrilysin. Biochim Biophys Acta. 1197 Mar 15; 1134(2-3):261-72.

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