Engineering Administrative Assistant

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Professional with *-* years of solid research and industry experience.

• Immense ability to conduct experiments using modern test equipment.

• Strong ability to use tools such as PCR, ELISA, HPLC, GPC, GCMS, LCMS, Electrophoresis, TGA, DSC, FTIR, SEM, Optical Microscopy, EDX, Instron Electromechanical system.

• Experience in fabricating and characterizing biomaterial scaffolds using electrospinning, solvent casting.

• Knowledge of GMP/ GLP/ OSHA guidelines.

• Experience of cell culturing (human mesenchymal stem cell, microbial culture, and plant tissue culture) and characterizing the hMSC culture (Alkaline Phosphate Assay and Pico Green Assay).

• Experience of working with ProE Designing, Image J, NEURON Software, Microsoft office.

• In-depth knowledge of the use principles of science, mathematics, chemistry and biomedical engineering to design and evaluation solutions for biomedical problems.

• Excellent ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

• Great inter-personal skills; and comfortable working effectively both independently and in a team environment.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Tissue Engineering and Applied Biomaterials Laboratory, NJIT, Newark NJ May’10 – Present

Graduate Research Assistant

• Fabricating electrospun polymer-ceramic composite scaffolds by varying the concentration of polymer.

• Scaffold characterization using Optical Microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy for determination of fiber diameters and inter-fiber spacing

• Material characterization using Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) and Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).

• Bioactivity studies of scaffolds for apatite formation using simulated body fluid immersion studies, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and SEM-Energy Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX).

• Human Mesenchymal stem cell studies on the fabricated scaffolds and characterization of cell viability.

Albert Dorman Honors College, NJIT, Newark NJ September’10- May’11

Graduate Administrative Assistant/Lounge Monitor

• Provide general office duties including: filing, data entry, photocopying, answering telephone, and running errands.

• Responsible for taking prospective students and parents on tour of campus.

Arbro Pharmaceuticals Ltd., New Delhi August’08 – July’09

Trainee Analyst

• Sample analysis using HPLC, GC, GCMS, LCMS, FTIR, UV-Spectroscopy.

• Diagnosis technique validation for tuberculosis detection.

• Managing and updating records of validation.

• Other responsibilities included running meetings with other team members, presenting the data in the meetings, assisting the new trainees to learn the analytical techniques.

Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, Gurgaon, India July’07- August’07

Intern

• Molecular biology techniques such as cloning, protein work, protein expression and purification, PCR, ELISA, HPLC, GPC, analysis of material utilizing GLPs and GMPs.

Appin Knowledge Solutions, New Delhi, India July’06-August’06

Intern

• Project on Modeling and Simulation of Carbon Nano Tube.

• Designed a Carbon Nano Tube in silico.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

Master of Science, Biomedical Engineering, May 2011 GPA: 3.9/4.0

Relevant Coursework:

Principles of tissue engineering Cell and Molecular Tissue Engineering Engineering Modeling of Biological Neural Systems Principles of Pharmaceutical engineering Biochemistry Advanced Biomaterials Project Management Medical Device Development

Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India

Bachelors of Technology with Honors, Biotechnology, June 2008 73.1/100

Relevant Coursework:

General Chemistry Organic Chemistry Biochemistry Bioanalytical techniques Thermodynamics of Bioprocesses Microbiology Biostatistics Cell and Molecular Biology Bioinformatics Recombinant DNA technology Microbial, Plant and Animal Biotechnology Stem cells in Health Care

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

“Characterization of electrospun fibrous composite for application in Bone Tissue Engineering”

(Department of Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ)

• Developing & characterization of fibrous polycaprolactone (PCL) & Ceramic (HA/TCP) composite scaffold. Characterization of scaffold using optical microscopy, SEM, TGA, FTIR, DSC.

• Immersion study using simulated body fluid.

“Proposal of a chitosan hydrogel skin graft capable of delivering antibiotics and fluids for hydration”

• Design History File was prepared for the proposed skin graft.

“Porous chitosan scaffold containing microspheres loaded with transforming growth factor-β1: Implications for cartilage tissue engineering”

• Review of paper “Kim SE, Park JH, Cho YW, Chung H, Jeong SY, Lee EB, and Kwon IC. 2003 Porous chitosan scaffold containing microspheres loaded with transforming growth factor-[beta] 1: implications for cartilage tissue engineering. Journal of controlled release 91(3):365-374.”

• New therapy was proposed for treatment of cartilage that includes the MSC can be seeded by dynamic methods on chitosan-based hydrogels for treatment of cartilage defects. These scaffolds can be loaded with microspheres loaded with TGF.

“Construction of networks with different neurons and study the effect on spike generation.”

• Network of five cells, one artificial and four conductance based neurons, was constructed using Neuron Software.

• Effects of cell properties and type of signal on signal propagation/ spike generation.

“Studying the antimicrobial activity of Cestrum diurnum on Bacillus subtilis and isolation of active component.”

• The activity of water and methanol extracts of plant was checked on Bacillus subtilis using disc diffusion method.

“Culturing of Stevia rebaudiana and isolation of stevioside.”

• The in vitro culturing of leaves was done and stevioside (artificial sweetner) was recovered.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tissue Engineering/ Cell and Molecular Biology/ Chemistry: Electrospinning, PCR, ELISA, HPLC, GPC, Cell Culturing, FTIR, DSC, SEM, Optical Microscopy, TGA, Instron Electromechanical system, Knowledge of GMP/GLP.

Computer Applications: Basics of ProE Designing, Image J, NEURON Software, Microsoft office.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• Member of Graduate Biomedical Engineering Society at NJIT.

• Member of GENESIS- THE BIOTECH CLUB at UIET.

• Participated in power point presentation at National Level Techno-cultural Fest “Excellsior-08” organized by U.I.E.T, KUK. The presentation was on “3-parent Embryo”.

• Participated in intercollegiate sports meet `PRATISPARDHA-2007' in cricket. Team stood first.

• Won the best batsman in intercollegiate as well as intra college cricket tournament.

REFERENCES: Available on Request

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