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Education
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Overview

HEATHER M. MARTINEZ

Lab/Field Technician
Las Cruces,NM
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

Summary

Quality driven team player experienced in project management and supporting operational needs. Proficient in data management and providing accurate technical documents. Adept at distribution and adaptation of materials to target audiences. Successful in collaborating with multiple teams to meet deadlines and goals.

Work History

Lab/Field Technician

New Mexico Consortium
01.2020 - Current
  • Prioritize and manage multiple tasks and projects
  • Train and guide employees and students to efficiently perform work
  • Develop and revise standard operating procedures and work instructions
  • Manage large data sets
  • Generate presentations, technical reports, a research papers
  • Communicate with management and across teams
  • Analyze and interpret results to draw inferences and conclusions
  • Set up new laboratory spaces
  • Scale and cultivate microalgal cultures
  • Maintain instruments and equipment
  • Conduct high and low throughput laboratory experiments
  • Operate up to 24 experimental ponds in field setting
  • Analyze samples for biomass and biochemical composition
  • Prepare media, wash and autoclave glassware, maintain inventory
  • Work under diverse types of weather and ground conditions

State Fuel Chemist

NMDA Petroleum Standards Lab
09.2017 - 12.2019
  • Data entry, QC, and storage
  • Provide reports on test results to be used for state regulatory purposes
  • Perform analytical tests on up to 150 fuel samples per week complying with established ASTM test methods for D02
  • Fuel analysis on Grabner and Pensky Martens instruments
  • Round robin inter laboratory testing
  • Weekly safety inspections
  • Clean, calibrate and safely operate laboratory equipment
  • Maintain safe, organized, efficient laboratory environment
  • Time management

Research Associate

Sapphire Energy
05.2012 - 09.2017
  • Manage two to five people on daily tasks and project operations
  • Maintenance and operation of 70 algal cultivation ponds ranging in sizes of 260 liters to 33,000 liters
  • Coordinate over 50 experiments in field setting
  • Project lead for 17 field experiments
  • Manage large data sets
  • Generate reports, reviews, and summaries
  • Develop data collection strategies, QC results, produce figures
  • Recruitment of temporary staff
  • Implemented strategy for new hires reducing training period by half
  • Daily photometry and density analyses of up to 86 samples
  • Weekly alkalinity, total dissolved solids, total nitrogen, phosphate, and oil analyses of up to 92 samples
  • Create instrument protocols
  • Maintain instruments, lab glassware, chemical storage, power equipment
  • Operate forklift in compliance with OSHA guidelines and organizational policies

Sales and Clerical

Multiple
06.2005 - 05.2012
  • Best Buy, May 2009 – May 2012
  • Sportsman's Warehouse, November 2008 – April 2009
  • Dr. Davis Orthopedics, December 2007 – November 2008
  • Lowe's Home Improvement, June 2005 – October 2007

Education

Bachelor of Science - Biology

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
12.2010

Skills

  • Project management
  • Microsoft Office suite
  • Data entry, management and archiving
  • Material standardization
  • Creation and compliance of standard operating procedures
  • Internal and external team collaboration
  • Team support
  • Equipment Management
  • Lab analysis with MiniPAM, SpetraMax, BioTek EL800, Shimadzu TOC-L, LECO TGA, Grabner, and PAC Pensky Martens instruments
  • Microalgal scaling and cultivation

Work Availability

monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Accomplishments

Alina A. Corcoran, Juliette Ohan, Erik R. Hanschen, Anthony Granite, Heather Martinez, F.O. Holguin, Blake T. Hovde, Shawn R. Starkenburg,
Scale-dependent enhancement of productivity and stability in xenic Nannochloropsis cultures,
Algal Research, Volume 68, 2022, 102892

Monica R. Sanchez, Ellen Denning, Thomas C. Biondi, Blake Hovde, Stephen Eacker, Stephanie Getto, Harmanpreet Kaur, Ahlem Jebali, Isidora Echenique-Subiabre, Matt Green, Julia Gerber, Ben Auch, F. Omar Holguin, Ivan Liachko, Heather Martinez, Marcela Balleza, Jakob Nalley, Charley O'Kelly, Jonathan B. Shurin, Alina A. Corcoran, Shawn R. Starkenburg,
Development of a field-deployable qPCR assay for real-time pest monitoring in algal cultivation systems,
Algal Research, Volume 74, 2023, 103194

Isidora Echenique-Subiabre, Jonah M. Greene, Aidan Ryan, Heather Martinez, Marcela Balleza, Julia Gerber, Ahlem Jebali, Stephanie Getto, Charles J. O'Kelly, Shovon Mandal, Jason C. Quinn, Shawn R. Starkenburg, Alina A. Corcoran, Jonathan B. Shurin,
Site-specific factors override local climatic conditions in determining microalgae productivity in open raceway ponds,
Algal Research, Volume 74, 2023, 103235

Timeline

Lab/Field Technician - New Mexico Consortium
01.2020 - Current
State Fuel Chemist - NMDA Petroleum Standards Lab
09.2017 - 12.2019
Research Associate - Sapphire Energy
05.2012 - 09.2017
Sales and Clerical - Multiple
06.2005 - 05.2012
New Mexico State University - Bachelor of Science, Biology

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

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