Detail-oriented professional adept at collecting and processing information. Strategic and organized with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Self motivated with experience in working with and within teams.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Operating Room Assistant
Riverina Day Surgery
08.2023 - Current
Set up operating theatres in accordance with the surgery lists specified operations and doctors’ preferences.
Positioning of patients both conscious and unconscious in the required position for surgery whilst they remain comfortable and safe position.
Improved patient safety by efficiently preparing operating rooms and ensuring a sterile environment, through terminal and patient changeover cleaning.
Effectively communicated with colleagues and patients, ensuring clear understanding of tasks and expectations.
PhD Student, Summer Scholarship & Honours Student
Children's Medical Research Institute
01.2021 - 06.2023
As a student researcher, I conducted experiments focused on innovative cancer treatments. This encompassed project organization, inventive approaches, data collection, and analysis
Maintaining cancer cell lines and performing experiments in order to collect and interpret data.
Maintain a sterile environment, by practicing aseptic techniques to avoid cross contamination of cell lines and bacterial cultures as well as to protect myself and co-workers from cytotoxic and biological hazards.
Spoke at both scientific conferences and community fundraisers about my research and the importance of the Jeans for Genes foundation. Resulting in the ability to communicate and discuss both in scientific terms to other scientist and lay terms to the lay person about a varying range of topics.
As a team member of the Telomere Length Regulation Unit, I attended weekly lab meetings where we discussed projects and made contributions and provided problem solving strategies for each person’s projects. Furthermore, we had larger weekly Working in Progress meetings with all 5 telomere-based labs, for the purpose of similar discussion and conversations.
Contributed to the development of novel cancer treatments through diligent lab work and collaboration with fellow researchers.
Program Manager, Instructor & Admin Assitant
Kinetic Martial Arts
02.2014 - 03.2020
Assisted in the development of comprehensive martial arts programs, resulting in increased student enrollment and retention.
Conducted rigorous physical fitness sessions to improve students'' overall strength, flexibility, and stamina.
Instruct and demonstrate syllabus appropriate techniques to classes with the number of students per class ranging between 5 – 25. Primarily teaching the age groups of 3.5-5 years and 9-12 years.
Utilised Zenplanner database and mail chimp to coordinated and create marketing material for 9 clubs, this involved preparing and sending welcome letter packages to all new students and birthday cards to all members of all clubs under the age of 18.
Entering of new member details, including setting up payment details and direct debit of training and merchandise fees into Zenplanner and the management of assigning membership numbers to each new member.
Education
Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Advanced Studies - Biochemistry And Molecular Biology & Management
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW
11.2021
Skills
Daily Incident Reporting
Research Abilities
Strategic Thinker
Data Interpretation
Report Writing
Teamwork
Strong Verbal Communication
Timeline
Operating Room Assistant
Riverina Day Surgery
08.2023 - Current
PhD Student, Summer Scholarship & Honours Student
Children's Medical Research Institute
01.2021 - 06.2023
Program Manager, Instructor & Admin Assitant
Kinetic Martial Arts
02.2014 - 03.2020
Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Advanced Studies - Biochemistry And Molecular Biology & Management