Simon Rodriguez

201-***-**** aduh5b@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/in/simon-rodriguez-cabrera Edgewater, NJ 07020

Education

University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA

The College of Arts and Sciences August 2021 – May 2025

B.A. in General Philosophy, Minor in Environmental Science

●Relevant coursework: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Statistics, Business Spanish

●ComicBooks For Kids @Penn, Wharton Latino, Center for Africana Studies Summer Institute graduate

Regis High School New York, NY

High School Diploma September 2017 – May 2021

●GPA: 3.85, ACT: 35, SAT: 1520

●Science Research Project Program: A Comparison of Spike Train Variability Between the Primary Visual Area of the Macaque Monkey and the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus of the Mouse

●Varsity public forum debater on the top ranked speech and debate team in the country, student government class representative

Drew University Madison, NJ

Governor’s School of New Jersey Program in the Sciences July 2020

●College-level research program for the top STEM students in New Jersey. Completed accelerated courses in the Molecular Biology of Cancer, Neurobiology, and Molecular Orbital Theory. Under the mentorship of Dr. Graham A. Cousens, my group of half a dozen students successfully designed and performed an original research project: Meta-Analysis of Single Unit Neural Recordings to Assess Spike Train Variability Across Levels of Processing and Anesthesia Condition.

Work Experience

GeoScan Smoking Study Philadelphia, PA

Research Assistant September 2022 – Present

●Make daily screening calls to determine potential participants’ eligibility, organize and mail study packets, support older participants through their weekly surveys, input data into Electronic Medical Record databases, and am the leading contributer to the lab’s code book

●In charge of training new research assistants. Currently working with a group of half a dozen undergraduate research assistants at the Annenberg School for Communication’s Neuroscience Lab

SEO Career New York, NY

SEO EDGE Participant June 2022 – Present

●Receive coaching and online instruction to achieve targeted interview, technical, and professional developmental goals

●Learn business fundamentals to compete successfully for internship opportunities

Santana Law Group LLC Union City, NJ

Court Department Assistant May 2022 – September 2022

●Drafted motions and certified letters, mailed and filed court documents, translated legal documents in Spanish, and assisted in Spanish-speaking client prep meetings

●Digitized the firm’s entire physical calendar and linked it to its digital database system

Children’s Brain Tumor Network Philadelphia, PA

Clinical Research Assistant September 2021 – May 2022

●Navigated Electronic Medical Record databases for proper documentation and synthesized each report to enter the relevant information into secure clinical research databases, making the data accessible to brain tumor researchers

●Quality checked and redacted specimen packets and operative and pathology reports from children’s hospitals across the country

One Hudson Medical Associates Edgewater, NJ

Office Assistant June 2019 – August 2021

●Spearheaded a data migration of all the practice’s medical records from eClinicalWorks to the Healthfusion Electronic Medical Record database. Acted as direct office representative to the Healthfusion support team throughout the process

●Worked the front desk with the secretaries, scanned and filed medical documents, answered telephone inquiries, scheduled appointments, and translated for Spanish-speaking staff and patients.

Awards/Titles

ComicBooks For Kids @Penn President (2022) – President of the service club working with the ComicBooks for Kids, the largest charity in the world for comic books. We receive and donate comic books to children’s hospitals. In charge of fundraising and new member recruitment.

Goldman Sachs Virtual Insight Series Participant (2022) – Completed the accelerated four-week program to better understand the Goldman Sachs recruiting process and learn the basics of networking.

Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar (2021-Present) – Recipient of scholarship offered to the top 10,000 Hispanic undergraduate and graduate students.

National Merit Finalist (2021) - Scored within the top 0.5 percent of New Jersey on the PSAT and, from that pool, was selected for a Certificate of Merit.

Certifications, Skills, and Activities

Languages: Spanish (Native), German (Professional Working Proficiency)

Certifications and Technical Training: CITI Program Undue Foreign Influence: Risks and Mitigations certification, CITI Program Biomedical Researchers certification, CITI Program Social/Behavioral Research certification, OnCore: Subject Administration certification, Protecting Patient Information (HIPAA) certification, CITI Protection of Human Subjects Research Training certification

Interests: Alzheimer’s Disease advocacy, Tennis, creative writing

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