Design Experience
Download resume PDFManufacturing Demonstration Facility
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Knoxville, TN 37921
May 2020 – present
- Automated clerical tasks, such as recording the number of weekly meetings, via Microsoft Flow and Matlab.
- Maintained a database of facility publications.
- Created graphics that appeared in journal articles, to illustrate and/or summarize complex spatial and mechanical concepts.
May 2019 – May 2020
- Created and maintained a database of facility publications.
- Created graphics that appeared in journal articles, to illustrate and/or summarize complex spatial and mechanical concepts.
- Assisted in transitioning the team to SharePoint Online.
Writing Experience
Download resume PDFManufacturing Demonstration Facility
at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Knoxville, TN 37921
May 2020 – present
- Handled data collection, recording, and data maintenance for multiple projects.
- Tracked facility statistics such as number of publications, licenses, patents, students, researchers, and support staff.
- Edited and submitted quarterly reports, publications, and other digital and written communications.
May 2019 – May 2020
- Aided with editing reports, abstracts, publications, and posters.
Daily Beacon Opinion Column: Ask a Scientist
Knoxville, TN 37921May 2018 – present
- Edited weekly articles on a wide variety of scientific topics.
- Managed scheduling of writers and topics for publication.
- Communicated with team members using Slack.
- Experience giving suggestions and criticism in a constructive manner and dealing with conflict resolution.
June 2017 – present
- Wrote 1,000 word articles answering questions that were sent in by readers
- Answered questions under a wide variety of topics, such as neuroscience, animal behavior, environmental science, science communication, pharmacology, and evolutionary biology.
- Experience with deadlines: researched, drafted, edited and submitted articles within one week.
- Worked closely with editors and handled suggestions and constructive criticism.
- Collaborated with others using Google Docs editing.
- Experience writing alone and with co-authors.
- Collected reliable sources of information and cited them in-text.
Research Experience
Download resume PDFLaboratory of Sleep & Cognitive Neuroscience
Knoxville, TN 37921August 2016 – July 2018
- Performed intracranial surgeries on rats.
- Used electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings to identify and quantify stages of wakefulness and sleep.
- Developed a new behavioral paradigm for testing anhedonia in rats.
- Worked with very little oversight or guidance, and managed my own time and progress.
- Learned Matlab coding for processing, visualizing, and exporting large amounts of data.
March 2015 – August 2016
- The first hire in a new lab; worked closely with supervisor to get the lab up and running.
- Experience writing grants, protocols and standard operating procedures.
- Created & managed lab website: sleepandcognitionlab.weebly.com
- Managed ordering the equipment, supplies, and controlled substances necessary for lab operation.
- Worked closely with the Business Department to process orders and handle financing.
- Managed relationships with administrators, vendors and regulating bodies.
- Piloted and implemented the experimental procedures used in the lab, such as surgery, sleep recordings, sleep scoring, fear conditioning, novel object recognition, tissue sectioning and immunohistochemistry.
- Performed an experiment investigating the effects of long photoperiod exposure on rat cognitive ability.
Cooper Behavioral Neuroscience Lab
Knoxville, TN 37921May 2013 – March 2015
- Performed behavioral paradigms using hamsters.
- Scored, analyzed and exported data.
- Worked on brain tissue processing.
- Worked closely with a graduate student to coordinate running experiments and analyzing data.
Infant Language & Perceptual Learning Lab
Knoxville, TN 37921January 2013 – May 2013
- Created and managed the lab website: infantlanguagelab.utk.edu
- Created the lab logo and advertising materials such as pamphlets and bookmarks.
- Performed eye-tracking experiments with infants.
- Read and summarized literature in the field of infant language learning.
- Managed scheduling infants and their parents for experiments.