JASON CENTRACCHIO
Cumberland,RI
Summary
Experienced Laboratory Manager wit over 23 years of experience in Biotech (industry and Academia). Excellent reputation for resolving problems, improving client (internal and external) satisfaction, and driving overall operational improvements. Consistently saved costs while increasing profits.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Wet Laboratories Manager /Safety Officer
Agilux Laboratories
Worcester, MA
- Direct reporting of Lab support group
- Involved in site licenses and permits;
- Flammables Permit (WPH), Controlled Substances permit (MA-DPH, DEA), Tier II reporting
- Provide safety training to new hires
- Audit Responder to QA for Laboratory Operations
- Increasing EH&S responsibilities:
- Lab inspections, safety committee organizer, incident reporting, ensuring safety regulations are being followed
- Provide Annual Safety, Biohazard, Chemical and BBP training to lab members
- Assist is logistics and design for laboratory build-outs and newly acquired lab space
- Capital Equipment procurement
Head of Metrology program, ensuring GLP compliance
- Lead user and Administrator of Environmental monitoring program
- AmegaView; over 150 reporting units
- Order and maintain an inventory of laboratory equipment ensuring GLP compliance
- Manage all facility maintenance requests and contracts
- Coordinate preventive maintenance and service for laboratory equipment with a focus on as little downtime as possible
- Direct, mentor and train interns
- Ensure that raw data records are accurate, complete, and in appropriate order
- Coordinate First Aid and AED Training Apr- 2013 / Jul- 2014
Laboratory Manager
EpiVax
Providence, RI
- Responsible for the direct leadership and management of lab staff
- Created and implemented SOP's and protocols
- Procurement and inventory management of supplies and capital equipment
- Responsible for software-based temperature sensitive equipment monitoring
- Performed orientation and safety training for new employees and interns
- Worked towards implementing GLP-like standards
- Implemented transition from paper notebooks to electronic cloud based notebook system
- Managed supplies budget for multiple projects
- Oversee quality and work flow management within the laboratory
- Performed assay development for In-House ELISA
- Kept laboratory in compliance with all applicable guidelines and laws
- Kept equipment maintained, facility clean and organized and inventory stocked to maximize performance
Lead Coordinator
- Budgeting for capital procurement, equipment inventory and accounts receivable
- Laboratory safety regulation compliance for all members of CVRC
- Led CVRC operations meetings
- Monitored and updated CVRC website
- Led team to implement an onsite rabbit breeding program
- Primary cardiomyocyte tissue culturing
- Project management of cardiomyocyte isolation, quality control and performance
- Managed and maintained payroll, training and health surveillance reports for all employees and students
- Managed relocation of laboratory from Boston, MA to Providence, RI
- Monitored proper operations of all capital equipment, small equipment, laboratory infrastructure and solved any problems
- Trained new staff on the operation of instruments
- Monitored all temperature sensitive equipment through wireless probe software system
Aug
09.2016 - Current
Wet Laboratories Manager
Charles River Laboratories
Worcester, MA
01.2016 - 09.2016
- (CRL acquisition of Agilux Sep-2016)
- Capital Equipment maintenance contract negotiations and management
- Spear-heading transition to paperless asset management system
- Head of Metrology Program in Discovery and GLP laboratories
- Member of Optimization Team
- Member of Unification Team - regarding harmonization of 3 separate buildings into one site under CR-MA (Charles River Massachusetts)
- System Administrator for Regulated Environmental Monitoring System
Laboratory Coordinator III /Safety Officer
Agilux Laboratories
10.2015 - 08.2016
Laboratory Supervisor/Manager
Cardiovascular Research Center; Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, RI
01.2007 - 04.2013
Senior Research Assistant
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, RI
02.2006 - 10.2007
- Responsible for protocol editing, technical writing for grant proposals and publications
- Performed tissue culture, Western blot, Northern blot, Southern blot, (including densitometry analysis)
- Trained and experienced with radioactive materials, buffer and solution preparation, ELISA, membrane protein isolation, Nucleic acid isolation, Acrylamide and agarose gel electrophoresis,
- Performed RT-PCR, Small animal non-survival surgery, Immunostaining, Immunoprecipitation, Transient transfections, Cardiomyocyte isolation and culture
- Managed inventory and ordering
Senior Research Assistant
Rhode Island Hospital Renal Laboratory
Providence, RI
06.1995 - 02.2006
- Prepared solutions and buffers
- Performed assays: ELISA, nucleic acid and protein isolation, extensive tissue culture, PCR, Gel electrophoresis, SDS-PAGE
- Ordered lab supplies and provided inventory management
- Technical writer for grant proposals and publications
- Maintained standards of lab cleanliness
- Performed tissue culture, buffer and solution preparation, PCR, ELISA
Education
Business Management Certificate Program - undefined
Bryant University Executive Development Center
2013
Business Analyst Certification Program - undefined
Bryant University Executive Development Center
2008
Project Management Certification Program - undefined
Bryant University Executive Development Center
2007
M.A - Biology
Rhode Island College
2004
B.S - Biology
Rhode Island College
1995
Skills
- Accounts receivable, Reporting
- Acid, RT-PCR
- Asset management, Safety
- Budgeting, SOP
- Business Analyst, System Administrator
- Business Management, Technical writing
- Contract negotiations, Technical writer
- Contracts, Website
- Editing
- ELISA
- Equipment inventory
- Equipment maintenance
- Facility maintenance
- First Aid
- Focus
- GLP
- Grant proposals
- Inventory management
- Laboratory equipment
- Notebooks
- Leadership
- Logistics
- MA
- Materials
- Meetings
- Mentor
- Optimization
- Organizer
- PAGE
- Payroll
- PCR
- Procurement
- Project Management
- Protocols
- Publications
- Quality
- QA
- Quality control
Affiliations
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION - Not to be reproduced without prior written authorization from Agilux Laboratories
Timeline
Aug
09.2016 - Current
Wet Laboratories Manager
Charles River Laboratories
01.2016 - 09.2016
Laboratory Coordinator III /Safety Officer
Agilux Laboratories
10.2015 - 08.2016
Laboratory Supervisor/Manager
Cardiovascular Research Center; Rhode Island Hospital
01.2007 - 04.2013
Senior Research Assistant
Rhode Island Hospital
02.2006 - 10.2007
Senior Research Assistant
Rhode Island Hospital Renal Laboratory
06.1995 - 02.2006
Wet Laboratories Manager /Safety Officer
Agilux Laboratories
Head of Metrology program, ensuring GLP compliance
Laboratory Manager
EpiVax
Lead Coordinator
Business Management Certificate Program - undefined
Bryant University Executive Development Center
Business Analyst Certification Program - undefined
Bryant University Executive Development Center
Project Management Certification Program - undefined
Bryant University Executive Development Center
M.A - Biology
Rhode Island College
B.S - Biology
Rhode Island College