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Deborah Barbey

NJ

Summary

Experienced scientist with 20 years of clinical lab experience and 11 years of early discovery experience in big pharma. Four plus years within academia, Rutgers's University DNA Repository Lab, one of the largest in the world, managing and maintaining instrumentation to keep the lab functional. Involved in the development of world's first COVID Saliva Test, and implementation in our newly formed COVID Lab, which at the peak, ran over 50,000 samples/day. Experienced and proactive Automation Specialist possessing in-depth knowledge of various types of automation equipment, software and hardware. Agile leader of systems automation with team-oriented mindset, collaborating with staff from all departments to streamline productivity with technology-based solutions.

Overview

38
38
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Automation Specialist

Sampled
Piscataway, NJ
08.2020 - Current
  • Coordinate necessary documentation for vendor service contracts for all instrumentation, making sure they are renewed before expiration.
  • Schedule, manage and coordinate service visits from vendors, or service engineers, for all necessary repairs and PM's.
  • Troubleshoot instrumentation when problems arise
  • Responsible for repairing broken instrumentation when it is feasible that we do so, without vendor intervention.
  • Document all Preventative Maintenance when performed, as well as making sure they are done in a timely manner.
  • Responsible for making sure new employees have orientation, proper on-boarding, training on daily duties, laboratory workflows, software training, method development, hardware orientation, training and troubleshooting the instruments.
  • Conduct necessary testing and procedures in order to validate new methods on our robots.
  • Complete all validation reports, for processing in our Quality Department.
  • Ensure all validation reports are uploaded to QMS (quality system).
  • Responsible for making sure all instrument failures are reported in our ticket system and a formal Error Report is completed by the technicians.
  • Update the electronic ticket system as things are repaired, with ongoing issues, etc.
  • Oversees our Instrument Specialists, and provide guidance on root cause analysis and repair path.
  • Maintain, debug and optimize automation programs.
  • Order new equipment or accessories when needed. This involves obtaining quotes and sending them through purchasing for approval.

Instrument Specialist

Rutgers University, RUCDR
Piscataway, NJ
11.2016 - 08.2020
  • Troubleshoot and problem solve various inoperative instruments and equipment in a timely manner and return to service quickly
  • Responsible for keeping instrument tags up to date
  • Maintains up to date equipment records including service reports, PM reports, IQ/OQ reports for new installations
  • Conducted much testing of newly written and/or modified methods
  • Responsible for the validation of new instruments before they are put into production
  • Managed an instrument master list of all instrumentation, updating completed PM's and the next scheduled date
  • Followed established guidelines and procedures in all areas of the lab; safety, protocol, training
  • Participated in quality training, making sure to stay up to date in all areas
  • Supported all operations in the lab for various teams, making sure everything possible was done to keep them running
  • Coordinated all vendor visits for service for downed instruments as well as maintenance visits.

Lead Associate/Research

Merck & Co., Inc
Kenilworth, NJ
10.2005 - 11.2016
  • Actively supported many large research projects, producing thousands of microtiter plates and processing tens of thousands of compounds/year
  • Collaborated with colleagues in informatics, automation, biology, and engineering, to transform a low-throughput, manual, clinical assay, into a robust, moderate throughput, fully automated, microtiter plate based workflow, for an important coagulation project
  • Responsible for analyzing and reporting the assay data to the project team
  • Initiated a review of our plasma processing workflow, and led the change effort, resultin in a more efficient, less cumbersome process
  • Proficient at running and maintaining the STAGO, Star Evolution; the instrument that runs the assays aPTT, mPT, PT - all needed for coagulation project support
  • Communicated with various customers in order to determine requirements for compound preparation
  • Performed and documented quality control testing (volume verification) on all of our instrumentation; Hamilton Stars
  • Articulate work processes to peers and assist in training new staff
  • Consistently adhere to all applicable regulations, policies and procedures for health, safety, and environmental compliance
  • Fire Marshall 2 years
  • 6 Sigma Yellow Belt.

Medical Laboratory Technician

Trinitas Hospital
Elizabeth, NJ
06.1982 - 03.2002
  • Responsible for accurately testing and reporting patient's lab results according to established procedures, in order to aid in their diagnosis
  • Proficient in Hematology, Chemistry, Urinalysis, Coagulation Testing
  • Efficiently operated numerous instrumentation that performed clinical testing of patients' samples
  • Executed quality control and quality assurance testing on a daily basis to insure quality of results
  • Performed the duties of acting Hematology Supervisor, twice in my career
  • Involved in overseeing CAP inspection for the lab I was supervising; Hematology
  • Supervised and educated new MLT students in their clinical rotation in Hematology,
  • Coagulation and Urinalysis
  • Generated tests, both written and practical for these students, so as to access their abilities in the lab.

Education

Associate of Applied Science - Medical Laboratory Technology

Union County College
Cranford, NJ
06.1983

Skills

  • Accomplished in all types of instrumentation; both clinical as well as research
  • Analytical thinking
  • Organizational Skills
  • Constantly multitasking
  • Data QC Task prioritization
  • Ongoing collaboration for ever changing events for example the COVID Pandemic
  • Technical Support
  • Automation Support
  • Performance Improvement
  • Team Support
  • Accurate Documentation
  • Training Junior Team Members
  • Robotics

Timeline

Senior Automation Specialist

Sampled
08.2020 - Current

Instrument Specialist

Rutgers University, RUCDR
11.2016 - 08.2020

Lead Associate/Research

Merck & Co., Inc
10.2005 - 11.2016

Medical Laboratory Technician

Trinitas Hospital
06.1982 - 03.2002

Associate of Applied Science - Medical Laboratory Technology

Union County College

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