Education

Employment History

Designer, Kosada, Inc.

August 2006 - present
Duties include: Webdesign; hardware setup and management; system maintenance; customer service; graphic and advertising design; marketing strategy; marketing automation.

Repairperson, Oberlin College Center for Information Technology

October 2006 - December 2006
Duties included: Troubleshooting and repair of student, faculty, staff, and lab computer hardware issues, including laptops, desktops, and printers.

Data Management/Research Assistant, Columbus Nationwide Children's Hospital

May 2003 - August 2006
Duties included: Data collection through chart review, patient questionnaires, and focus groups; patient correspondence for focus groups, redesign and maintenance of several Microsoft Access databases; design and content of several patient education pamphlets; use of readability formulas to evaluate hospital literature given to patients; design and management of a website for a nonprofit affiliated with the hospital.

Student Assistant, Columbus School for Girls IT Dept.

May-Sept. 2001
Duties included: Setting up, inventorying, and delivering new computers to faculty and staff offices; installing special software needed by individual departments; troubleshooting software and hardware issues and offering user support; installation of network ports in classrooms; printer maintenance.

Research

• Unpublished abstract: Prescribing in children and adolescents; teratogenic potential of medication therapy, concern of the pediatrician (pdf, 9.17 KB), presented as a poster at Ohio State University's department of pharmacy research day 2006.
• Research assistant in the genetics lab of Tomohiko Sugiyama since June 2009. Work so far includes E. Coli cloning of the Mec1, Rev7, and Rev3 genes. Goal of current research is to work with one other graduate research assistant to produce the gene products of all three subunits of DNA polymerase η. I am working to clone and purify the Rev7 and Rev3 subunits, while he works on Rev 1. Once we have purified these three genes, we will combine them on a single plasmid and use S. Cerevisiae to express all three subunits. We will then study the behavior of these subunits to learn more about the function of Pol η.

Skills/Experience