Wendi J West
Pitman,NJ
Summary
Skilled, poised and competent professional with exceptional customer service and a passion for science looking to further her career in science with a dedicated, innovative and cutting edge facility.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Veterinary Assistant/Team Leader
Pitman Animal Hospital
Pitman, NJ
10.2006 - Current
- Responsible for taking history of routine and non-routine exams
- Responsible for taking vitals for triage emergencies
- Perform all aspects of radiology and patient restraint
- Perform nursing tasks: phlebotomy, catheterization, fluid therapy, medicating by all routes of administration
- Perform administrative tasks: scheduling appointments and surgeries, maintenance of online pharmacy requests and laboratory results
- Obtain, prepare, and process all laboratory samples
- Filling of all medications for patients
- Monitor and assess patients in treatment ward
- Manages all coupon programs, microchip registration and inventory returns
- Client education
- Technician for visiting cardiologist for past 15 years duties include scheduling of patients, restraint of patients, client education and processing of cardiac consult reports
- Responsible for Inventory ordering and control
- Account receivable duties.
Laboratory Technician
Gloucester County Utilities, Authority
Deptford, NJ
04.2003 - 04.2006
- Duties included testing of all areas of plant function, quality control of all planttesting and Preparation of samples for outside lab analyzation
- Tests performedinclude; total solids, total volatile solids, cortile solids, chlorine residual, ammoniaresidual, nitrate and nitrite testing, Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) Chemical
- Oxygen Demand (COD), Respirometer/Toxicity testing, Fecal Colony testing,and preparation of chemicals and materials needed for all testing, Maintenanceand repair of instrumentation including; pH meters, Do meters, Chlorine meters,spectrophotometric meters, and respirometer
- Performed state quality assurancetesting for yearly license reevaluations
- Maintained sample logs
- Prepared
- Inventory reports
- Documented and approval of potential industrial waste with
- IPP program manager
- Managed the quality assurance testing and logging ofapproved industrial waste samples.
Laboratory Technician
Grad Student University of Medicine, Dentistry
Stratford, NJ
07.2001 - 04.2003
- Responsible for all duties of the laboratory
- Responsible for cleaning, culturingad running all experiments required for my project by utilizing a number oftechniques to facilitate the analysis of biological molecules then presenting thoseresults to laboratory mentor
- Techniques including; vector manipulation, dnatagging, HPCL, GC/MS, PCR, RtPCR, and DNA purification via mini prep andcolumn separation
- Experience with preparing and running of western blots,southern blots, SDS-PAGE, Agarose gels, and Polyacrylamide gels
- Alsoresponsible for taking classes toward the completion of my doctorate.
Education
Phd Program - Molecular Biology
University of Medicine And Dentistry – School of Biological Sciences
Stratford, NJ4.2003
B.S - Biology
Rowan University
5.2001
Skills
- Front line patient support,
- Triaging patients
- Phlebotomy, radiology, fluid therapy, medicating of patients
- Team leader/ directing team members/ staff training/ task deflagrating/ team monitoring
- Training of new hires
- Filling of prescriptions, knowledge of and practice with all medication utilized in Veterinary practices
- Inventory control and distribution
- Management and ordering of hospital inventory
- Works closely with pharmaceutical companies to learn and utilize coupons and incentive programs
- Surgical experience: pre-operative preparation, surgical assistance, post-operative support
- Instrument and surgical pack sterilization, dentistry, placing of IV catheters, fluid pump care and ECGs
- Laboratory procedure experience: Reflotron, Vetchem and PCV testing, heartworm antigen, Micro-Filaria, Leukemia and Lyme antigen tests, Fecal floats and smears as well as drawing of blood and preparation of outgoing laboratory samples
- Sterile techniques
- DNA testing techniques: PCR, RtPCR, gel electrophoresis, as well as western, northern and southern blot techniques, culturing techniques, culture transformations and other techniques required in laboratory environments
- Experience with GC/MS, protein column purification and mini prep protein purification
- OSHA trained
- Accounts receivable
- Billing and processing of payment from clients
- Investigation and corrections of discrepancies in invoices from venders
- Receiving and processing of payments to venders
- Attention to Detail
- Work Planning and Prioritization / Coaching and Mentoring
- Confidential Records Management
- PPE Compliance
- Overseeing Daily Activities
- Minor Repairs of hospital laboratory instruments
- Excel, Word and Powerpoint
Additional Information
- Achievements: , Garnet and Gold Honor SocietyaffiliationsRowan University Biology club 9/1997- 2001Rowan University Pre-professional Society 3/2000 – presentGolden Key Honor Society 5/2001 – presentAtlantic Estuarine Research Society 3/1999 – present
Timeline
Veterinary Assistant/Team Leader
Pitman Animal Hospital
10.2006 - Current
Laboratory Technician
Gloucester County Utilities, Authority
04.2003 - 04.2006
Laboratory Technician
Grad Student University of Medicine, Dentistry
07.2001 - 04.2003
Phd Program - Molecular Biology
University of Medicine And Dentistry – School of Biological Sciences
B.S - Biology
Rowan University