Kiara Bruno

• Continue participate in HAZMAT team and Emergency Response Team onsite by responding to chemical spills, toxic gas leakages, confined space rescues or standby and medical calls as Emergency Medical Technician certified in NJ
• Served as Lead Study Monitor for Modified Ames Test for samples submitted to Labcorp, UK, review and approve testing protocols and results and approving final reports
• Led evaluation of 3rd party labs for Quality Assurance of basestock toxicity testing
• Experience with CGI Software and Sphera Intelligent Authoring to generate Safety Data Sheets for Chemicals and Fuels business lines
• Led Global Harmonized System Revision changes projects and projects adopting EU REACH Regulation
• Led projects cross-organizationally and communicated with teams globally to meet GHS regulatory deadlines and update documentation, such as Safety Data Sheets to be compliant

• Actively participate on HAZMAT team onsite by responding to chemical spills, toxic gas leakages and confined space rescues or standby
• Work with Researchers to plan and execute experiments
• Support catalyst manufacturing by utilizing reactors
• Organize laboratory, prepare and submit 100's of samples for analytical testing (e.g
• XRD, SEM), record observations and data, provide feedback on procedures and equipment
• Demonstrate initiative by suggesting lab improvements through application of new techniques or new equipment
• Maintain organized logbook for equipment utilization and accurate inventory of chemicals and samples
• Perform procedures and calculations crucial to quality controls, including pH testing, instrument calibration and densities
• Follow OIMS-SHE regulations to ensure proper, safe disposal of hazardous samples and waste
• Troubleshoot equipment failure to offer possible solutions for any problem batches of experiments, (e.g stirrers, rupture disks, etc.)
• Utilize pressurized units, gas cylinders, horizontal tube furnace, vacuum filtration, steam furnaces, carry out extrusions, calcinations, crystallizations, impregnations, and exchanges
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Access, Outlook and PowerPoint.

Work in Operation Room, Radiology and Breast Center alongside physicians and nurses

• Notify physicians of patient arrival, provide charts and direct any questions from patient’s family to physicians
• Obtain patient information, insurance and documentation
• Update demographics in Meditech system
• Receiving and redirecting urine and blood samples to hospital laboratory
• Inform radiology staff of patient allergies, medical history and chief complaint to ensure patient receives appropriate care
• Determine, through patient’s prescription, what tests (e.g
• CT Scan, MRI, Barium Swallow, X-rays) are requested by physician and enter in Meditech system
• Comply with any protocol from nurse to determine what exams patient required and if contrast dose is necessary
• Obtain radiology reports and create radiology films.

• Paired with Graduate Student to isolate and purify cyanobacteria (Synechococcus SP
• IU 625 plasmid) and cyanophage for genome sequence to develop molecular probes
• Assist in preparing media; maintain cultures of cyanobacteria and virus
• Sterilized equipment using autoclaves
• Isolate DNA, carry out Polymerase Chain Reaction and gel electrophoresis
• Maintain organized laboratory notebook with different method performed daily
• Study unicellular cyanobacteria Synechococcus elongatus (S
• IU 625) and sequence complete plasmid to identify genes and their function
• Experience with gel electrophoresis, primer design, Centrifugation, TAE Buffer preparation, QIAP Miniprep, Nutrient Agar Media Preparation, BG-11 Media preparation, light microscope, colony counting on agar plate, cell count, micropipetting and spectrophotometer.

Obtain patients' information (demographic) and organize their charts

• Multitask by answering over 50 phone calls per day, translating in Spanish, admitting new patients and obtaining patient's vital signs
• Write letters on behalf of physician, registered new patients and scheduled their future appointments
• Acquired knowledge of medical insurance, such as deductibles by verifying coverage.