Sales Technician

Alexandre Lavigne

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Ottawa, ON, K1S 3K7

Cell 613-***-****

****.*******@*******.***

French, English

Education:

- B.Sc. Honours in Biochemistry, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, 2008

- High School Diploma, École Secondaire Publique de Vankleek Hill, Vankleek Hill, 2003

SUMMARY OF SKILLS

- Experience in project management and ability to lead and coordinate large-scale projects.

- Strong ability in directing staff and act as a team leader, set objectives and priorities and manage resources.

- Ability to coordinate logistics for a variety of events and to assist with the coordination of activities of a work unit.

- Experience in analyzing various situations and providing recommendation to managers through the production of plans and reports.

- Ability to analyze complex issues and formulate innovative and effective solutions.

- Excellent communication skills, oral and written, in both official languages, and capacity to make presentations to senior management.

- Ability to establish and maintain professional rapport, and work effectively in a team environment.

- Diversified experience in all phases of large-scale projects and strong ability to interpret clients’ needs and expectations with the capacity to deal with difficult clients.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

- Published on a poster used for the CSPS symposium of 2011 in the “Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Technology” branch. The Development and Manufacture of Thermal Stable Vaccines. The Thermo-stable paper is in preparation, pending further approval.

Variation Biotechnologies (VBI), 2011.

- Produced a database of all known chemical products used in all catholic schools and their MSDS in the Conseil scholaire de district catholique de l’Est ontarien (CSDCEO) and Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE) to comply with safety regulations.

CSDCEO, CECCE, 2006.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2009 to 2011 Research Technician

Variation Biotechnologies

Formulation / Analytical Unit, Ottawa

- Provided weekly summarization and results of past experiments through elaborative power-point presentations and detailed reports created on Microsoft Power-Point and Word respectively.

- Research pertained to the flu vaccine, hepatitis A / B vaccine as well as the cytomegalovirus (CMV) vaccine and their inclusion into a thermal stable envelope.

- Organized and coordinated the laboratory equipment and their functions as well as their maintenance and upkeep. Ordering and installation of new equipment also came under my supervision.

- Communicated daily with other groups within the company’s research teams to ensure that all work was being completed on schedule as well as being on par with the company’s expectations of quality

- Worked in a Quality Assured / Quality Controlled (QA/QC) environment.

- Part of the JHSC (Joint Health and Safety Committee)

- Carried out the following experiments: Gel Electrophoresis, Particle Size Distribution (Nano / Micro-sizing), Zeta-Potential, ELISA, Western Blotting, Microscopy, Karl Fischer Titration, Titration, pH readings, Thin Layer Chromatography

2008 to 2009 Lead Sales Associate

Pro Hockey Life

Skates Department, Ottawa

- Charged with training new recruits into the skates department, giving them product knowledge and explain to them the Fit Process to ascertain customers. Trained over 10 skates’ sales associates.

- Trained in lower functioning managerial tasks, for replacement in case of absence to one of the presiding managers.

- Kept in contact with the other lead sales associates to figure where the improvements could be done within our company and relayed to the managerial body.

- Trained in other departments of the store to assist in case of exceeded expectations in the amount of customers in the store.

- Micromanagement of the skates’ sales team, observing sales reports and conveying this information to my team in the hopes of improving our sales comparatively to the company as a whole.

2004 to 2008 Assistant Laboratory Technician

University of Ottawa

Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory, Ottawa

- Preparation and verification of the experiments run by the 1st to 4th year students in the laboratory

- Waste management of the dangerous chemicals in the undergraduate laboratory as well as all research laboratories in the Chemistry Department

- Maintenance of all the laboratory equipment and the laboratory itself during dead hours and the busy hours of the day

- Organized and ran the laboratory store for the students.

2006 to 2007 Administrative Support

Conseil scholaire de district catholique de l’Est ontarien (CSDCEO)

L’orignal

- Creation and maintenance of the WHIMS and MSDS database that is now present in every grade school and secondary school in the CSDCEO

- Consulting and observing of the construction done at various schools.

- Mediated with any help the administrative personnel needed around the office.

- Collecting of water samples as well as transportation to our outsourced laboratory for testing in ion concentration to comply with provincial and federal laws.

OTHER WORK / VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE

2005 to 2008 Omega Theta Alpha Men’s Fraternity, Ottawa

- Organized and participated in multiple philanthropic activities around the downtown core (Ottawa)

- Recruitment official for the upcoming new classes of men wanting to join the fraternity.

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