Medical Lab Technologist

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A biochemistry graduate with 4 years of school, research, and laboratory experience, who is ambitious and thrives on accelerating professionalism.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts: Biochemistry

- Queens College, CUNY

- Graduation: June 2020

Master’s in Public Health (Online, starting in August 2023)

- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

WORK EXPERIENCE

§ Northwest Texas Healthcare System, Amarillo TX

- Medical Lab Technologist (MLT), Microbiology (August 2022 – May 2023) Roles:

o Performing waived and non-waived tests of inpatient and outpatient specimens for diagnostic purposes under the policies and procedures established by the hospital. o Monitoring quality control data and instrument maintenance. o Maintaining good laboratory and documentation practices.

§ NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

- Associate Laboratory Microbiologist (August 2020 – May 2022). Roles:

o Training and competency assessing technologists on appropriate phenotypic and molecular test methods. o Singleplex and multiplex assays to detect and analyze Sars-CoV-2, RSV, influenza A and B viruses by Reverse Transcriptase real-time PCR tests.

o Clinical study on Abbott’s BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag card, for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 antigen. o Maintaining a program of quality control, quality assurance and monitoring general and unit specific program of biosafety and infection control.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Queens College, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Fall 2018

Student Researcher

§ Extraction of genomic DNA from yeasts and characterization of yeast deletions by PCR and Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, by Dr. Wilma Saffran at Queens College. Spring 2019

Student Researcher

§ DNA inter-strand crosslink repair for MPH1 deficient yeast, by Dr. Wilma Saffran, Queens College.

§ Presenter at ACS 67th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium (May 4, 2019) PROFESSIONAL SKILLS DEMONSTRATED

§ Ensure stability checks, comments and visual evidence on given samples

§ Maintain accurate and detailed records of all work performed

§ Demonstrates knowledge of laboratory safety standards

§ Developing in a team environment

§ Microsoft office, excel and power point

§ Demonstrate patience with repeated procedures

§ Prioritize hitting deadlines

AWARDS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

§ PTSA Central/Memorial Scholarship award from for academic excellence.

§ Senior Departmental Award for excellence in Chemistry.

§ President’s Award for Educational Excellence (Gold).

§ Additional languages – Bangla (Native)

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