10 years 3 months (9 years 5 months) I manage a team of 3-4 technicians. Our main responsibilities include inspection and release of raw materials which go into the manufacturing of nutraceuticals. As Coordinator, I have many responsibilities: keeping the team on track to ensure materials go into production on time, communicating with several other departments to solve issues, managing item conversions, expiration extensions and damaged and expired materials. In addition, I place all the supply orders for the Quality Assurance department, edit SOPs and raw material specifications, and attend several meetings a week with Planning and Purchasing departments to provide status updates on materials.

As a technician, I mainly inspected and released raw materials. Every material has its own specification and testing requirements. All materials must meet the spec in order to be released to the warehouse and then be used in production. We perform physical testing including loss on drying, bulk density, particle size, PSL for irradiation, FT-IR, tapped density, average weight, and disintegration. We also send samples to our in-house lab for analytical and microbiological testing. Other functions include taking retention samples for every lot, organizing and maintaining the retains, keeping track of damaged and rejected materials, and collecting monthly temperature and humidity data from around the facility.

(1 year 11 months) As the office/personal assistant at a small, organic farm, I mainly ledger farm expenses and incomes. However, I also perform filing and data management, send and file invoices from other businesses, organize personal files, make business phone calls, and make bank deposits. In the past, I have also maintained an organization system of family photos and used many older video machines to copy old tapes (Hi-8, 3/4", etc.) to computer for later editing.

As intern, my job consistsed of many different tasks including the reconstitution and preparation of aliquots of frequently used reagents (celltiter blue, PMSF,lysis buffers, protease inhibitors, etc.), restocking the main lab and the tissue culture room with commonly used supplies and reordering supplies as necessary, maintenance and culture of eukaryotic cells, preparation of different sterile cell culture media, and periodically cleaning lab equipment (water baths,refrigerators, freezers, incubators, biohazard waste, plate washers, etc.).