Laboratory Technician Program Specialist

Eugene Aarnio

PO Box *** Spencer NY ***** )607-***-**** ************@*****.***

Objective

Adaptable professional with 16 years of work experience and proven knowledge of leadership, problem-solving, and workflow prioritization. Aiming to leverage my abilities to successfully fill the Laboratory Technician role at your company.

Education

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE MAY 2004 JUNIATA COLLEGE

·Major: Physiological Ecology

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE MAY 2011 SUNY CORTLAND

·Major: Environmental Conservation

Skills & Abilities

Two Years’ experience Laboratory managing laboratory personnel and production.

Over eight years combined experience working in environmental conservation

Three and a half years working in various positions with the Cortland office of the NYSDEC

Four and a half years working as a Grazing Technician for the Tompkins County Soil and Water Conservation District

Direct experience creating farm conservation plans, grant writing, data management, community outreach and education, designing conservation practices, and coordination with numerous government agencies on conservation practice implementation projects

Hydric Soils for DEC Wetlands-8/26/10

State Civil Service Certified Biologist Trainee 1 (Ecology)

State Civil Service Certified Environmental Program Specialist 1

State Civil Service Certified Laboratory Technician

Received the 3-year Certificate of Erosion and Sediment Control Training in 2013 (SWT# is 52T-011513-20)

Experience

Laboratory Technician, Rheonix, Reagents lab, Ithaca NY, 10/2020-12/2022

Mixing reagents for PCR tests for Covid, RSV, Listeria, and STIs, as well as for home saliva tests for STIs

Creating laboratory SOPs for lab equipment and chemical formulations.

Filling out paperwork and official records for FDA review.

Personnel training on SOPs and proper lab procedures.

Management of personnel in a laboratory setting.

Laboratory Technician, Dairy One Foraging Lab, Ithaca NY, 1/2017-9/2017

Measured and recorded sample weights and results from chemical digestion experiments for reports to client companies. These included protein and mineral contents and gas chromatograph analysis.

Operation and maintenance of lab equipment to process specimens.

Used concentrated acids and peroxides to artificially digest samples.

Grazing Technician, Tompkins County Soil and Water Conservation District (TCSWCD), Ithaca NY, 6/2016

Applied for, managed, and executed the following conservation grants: Agricultural Environmental Management (AEM), Agricultural Non-Pointsource Abatement (AG-Nonpoint), FL-LOWPA grants for the conservation of water and soil quality in the Great Lakes area, various Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) and Farm Service Agency (FSA) Grants

Created and updated over 30 AEM Tier 3A and 5B environmental conservation plans

Designed (utilizing Auto CAD 4 program), implemented, and performed onsite inspections for 10 Best management practices (BMPs) associated with the above-mentioned grants

Performed over 200 AEM Tier I, 2, and 5A surveys to identify environmental resource concerns and evaluate the efficacy of any existing BMPs in place to address them

Coordinated several community education and outreach events raising public awareness of environmental concerns and the programs available to address them

Updated and organized over 20 years of District conservation files creating a more efficient system and increasing productivity

Created and presented the AEM 5-year Strategic Plan to direct conservation practices and goals within Tompkins County for 2015-2019

Coordinated with the Upper Susquehanna Coalition (USC) on collecting data for modeling watershed runoff concerns and evaluating installed BMPs

Collaborated with Cornell Cooperative Extension, NYSDEC, and NRCS to gather data for the proposed Fall Creek Watershed TMDL

Attended various conferences and completed training sessions vital to caring out above duties, managing grants, designing BMPs and inspected construction sites to ensure design plans were followed, and enforce all necessary runoff and erosion control measures

Extensive utilization and familiarity with Arc GIS version 10.1

Worked with survey equipment (Laser level and Trimble Total Station) for both construction and stream restoration sites

NYSDEC Seasonal Fish & Wildlife Technician/Environmental analyst Trainee 1: Split duty between Bureau of Habitat and Environmental Permits, NYSDEC, Cortland NY, 6/2007-10/2007; 5/2008-9/2008; 5/2009-9/2009; 5/2010-9/2010.

Created files entries in DART

Gathered preliminary review and research work on proposed SPDES permits leading to flood damage repair of roads and bridges in nine counties

Reviewed and performed field inspections for article 15, 17 and 24 permit applications

Organized past files for SPDES, Article 15 and 24 permits

Engineered work designs necessary for the speedy processing of permit applications.

Checked out reported violations of federally protected wetlands.

Performed roughly 1,600 compliance checks for article 15 and 24 permits for the Bureau of Habitat

Completed 6 SPDES permit applications, 8 article 15 permit applications, 4 article 24 permit applications

Issued 4 stop work orders, reported 4 minor violations of stream and wetland environmental law, and 3 moderate violations that received Compliance Orders

Submitted compliance reports to the Albany office

Aided Biologist Joe Eifert with Wetland delineations when needed

Seasonal Technician, NYSDEC, Cortland NY, 6/2005-11/2005; 8/2006-10/2006.

Trained in office maintenance, file organization, and general NYSDEC operations

Aided in permit applications (Article 15 and 24) review and environmental impact assessment, jurisdictional determinations, and approval for minor projects for the environmental Permits Office

Participated in the execution of two qualitative and quantitative field studies at the Whitney Point Reservoir with Department of Fisheries personnel

Collected deer specimens/data for joint Cornell Veterinary School and DEC Department of Wildlife study of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in New York State Wild Deer Populations

Aided Bureau of Habitat Biologists in several GIS Wetland Delineations utilizing Arc GIS 3.3 and 9.2.

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