Alexander Lora

• All of the duties from my previous position listed below, now with more independence and responsibility. The assumption of Saturday or Sundays working alone at the facility and on-call response. As well as starting some Collateral Duty Safety Officer responsibilities: the inspection of emergency eyewash stations, fire extinguishers, and chemical storage units
• Independent processing, recording and analysis of harvest evaluation for the broodstock breeding program, as well as research/study samples for color, fat content, and fat type operating specialized lab equipment, and maintaining the instruments to assist in the research process. Assisting with other studies and programs
• Aided in development of emergency power outage and generator failure protocols and deployment of emergency response equipment to the appropriate parts of the facility for each system
• On a career track for GS 5-7 Biological Science Technician before relocation.
• Received a $500 USDA Achievement Award for personal effort that contributes to the efficiency, economy, and improvement of Government operations

Work Schedule

• Sunday-Thursday full time 40hrs/week + overtime/credit hours

• General animal husbandry/feeding and care of Atlantic salmon (as well as Arctic charr and Lump fish) in all life stages, cleaning fish tanks, systems and rooms, keeping daily recordings of fish activities/behavior according to daily routine and procedure
• Problem solving and adaptation of the daily responsibilities as other tasks or issues come up working in the lab, main facility, out buildings, greenhouses and field
• Preparation and maintenance of chemicals, solutions and reagents as well as their proper disposal, including biological waste
• Pit tagging and vaccinating fish, smolting, spawning, and moving fish to their appropriate tanks, system maintenance, well repair, collection of tissue/organ/blood samples, recording data from specialized instrumentation
• Use, maintenance, and repair of common and advanced laboratory equipment, scientific software packages on laboratory computers
• Record keeping, summarization, and recognition of patterns in experimental data
• Assisting in research and lab analysis: annual harvest evaluation, industry fatty acid content analysis, sea lice collection/trials/dissection microscope counting, cataracts screening/lens sampling, astaxanthin digestibility, feed studies

Work Schedule

• Spring 19’ 2-3 days per week 16+hrs/week; May-August 19’ Mon-Friday 40hrs/week; Fall 19’ 2-3 days per week 14+hrs/week; 2020 full time Mon-Fri 40hrs though January 24, 2021; part time 2-4 days per week 16+hours/week January 25 – March 13th 2021

• Assist with monitoring of upstream and downstream fish passages at Brookfield owned hydroelectric dams on the Penobscot and Union Rivers consistent with established Operation and Maintenance plans
• Daily operation of fish lifts to capture, sort, and count various species of migratory and resident fish
• Transportation of migratory fish species a short distance upstream in tanks hauled by heavy duty truck and trailer
• Monitor eelways and fishways for proper water flow and make adjustments accordingly, remove debris, change batteries for water systems
• Perform quality control checks to ensure that all data collected are accurate and complete.
• Assist with fish passage studies
  
  Work Schedule
• This position often required working longer than 8 hours per day, up to 65+ hour weeks, and did require working weekends and holidays.

• Aided in research trials for the development of a Streptococcus iniae vaccine in Nile Tilapia
• Marking test groups of fish, daily observations of fish behavior, water quality monitoring, taking blood samples, nutrition and general husbandry
• Field sampling for MSX disease in commercial oyster cage biofoul, tunicates
• Assisted with Eastern oyster disease and parasite research

~40 hours

• Broodstock sorting, blood collection, harvest, system cleaning and maintenance

• Customer service: welcoming guests and visitors, providing information on the local landscape
• Cooking/Housekeeping/Provisioning: preparing and serving three hearty meals a day for up to 48 guests, cleaning and sanitizing the entire hut and bunkhouses, inventory of food supplies and retail items, unloading orders and storing food/items properly
• Operation and maintenance of facility: maintenance of solar array, propane generator, hydro generator, battery bank, wood boiler, and composting toilet system
• Environmental stewardship: implementing energy conservation and environmentally sound practices in daily operations, and educating guests to promote outdoor ethics

• Instruction of basic climbing/belaying skills as well as advanced lead climbing belay, advanced climbing techniques, knots, and safety to members of all ages
• Maintenance: cleaning of 55ft rock wall and routes, placing new routes/holds and adding grades to routes
• Management of large groups from young children to adults for functions and team building
• Development of the weekly schedule

• Aided in maintenance of semi-conductor testing units as well as daily burn-in testing
• Repaired burn-in boards and tested for proper functionality
• Bolstered Wakefield Static Card inventory by making new cards and organizing the stock