CSEP laboratory technician
Algonquin College
Total years of experience :10 years, 11 Months
• Prepared media agar plates and laboratory reagents for student use
• Autoclaved pipette tips, agar media and laboratory waste to maintain student laboratories
• Isolated phages through plaque assay, collected phage lysates and extracted phage DNA using QIAGEN kits for student research project
• Maintained and cleaned microscopes, water baths, fume hoods, autoclaves, Biosafety cabinets and laboratory glassware.
• Maintained Shelves and endcaps of products to greatly increase sales
• Maintained and recorded expiry dates for the safety of the customer
• Placed security tags on expensive medications and reduced the amount of theft in the store
• Purged backroom stock and filled empty shelves to increase customer satisfaction and sales
• Demonstrated knowledge of products to better help customers find what they are looking for
• Maintained backroom shelfs of overstock to give accurate number products
• Used proper PPE and laboratory sanitization to effectively and safely perform tasks in processing medical samples quickly
• Maintained records of patient personal information for faster turnover of results
• Properly used medical equipment, such as centrifuge to separate serum from SST tubes
• sorted and labelled patient specimens that required accurate and quick results, such as urine drug tests arriving from Royal Ottawa Hospital
• Selected Coursework: Microscopy, bacterial staining, acid-base titrations, PCR, DNA recombination, pipetting and reverse pipetting, spectrophotometry, end-point titrations, pH meter, centrifugation, developing SOPs, safe laboratory practices, HPLC, ICP-OES, GC, Uv-Vis, Gel electrophoresis.
• Selected Coursework: Plants form and function, microbiology, cell biology and biochemistry, Introductory genetics, Human anatomy and physiology, animals form and function, developmental biology
• Selected coursework: Clinical procedures, Urinalysis, medical microbiology, histology and cytology, safe laboratory practices