Michelle Andrade
Franklin Park,IL
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lab Safety Specialist
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
11.2024 - Current
- - Schedules yearly (or more) lab inspections for research lab
- - Creates lab reports with findings from lab inspections and ensure that labs have completed findings before finalizing reports
- - Ensures labs are adhering to safety standards put forth by government agencies like NIH, OSHA, and the CDC
- - Keeps an open line of communication between lab staff, other agencies, and the research safety team to ensure chemicals and other hazards are maintained to a level that won’t cause a spill or exposure harm
- - Advises labs on chemical storage, machine maintenance and overall safety practices
- - First responder for minor and nonfatal spills
- - Performs exposure monitoring on various lab students/workers
- - Coordinates waste disposal with lab members and the waste management company
Medical Lab Scientist
Alverno Laboratories (Holy Family Medical Center)
Des Plaines, IL
08.2022 - 11.2024
- - Performs lab duties for a variety of benches like coagulation, chemistry, hematology, urinalysis and blood bank
- - Uses quantitative and qualitative data to monitor patient care
- - Preforms QC and maintenance (daily, weekly, biweekly and monthly)
- - Reconstitutes reagents, controls and calibrators for the machines
- - Separates, labels, receives and orders any testing requested by the doctors or nurses based on the patients’ needs
- - Releases patient results based on the ranges and type of illnesses and medications they’re on
- - Works with coworkers and by myself to get results out quickly and efficiently
- - Performs manual blood typing to establish patient blood type, along with antibody screening and crossmatch with other blood units
- - Issues blood to nurses for patient transfusion
- - Performs manual differentials and urine microscopic differentials on patient specimens
Lab Assistant Technical
ACL Laboratories
Rosemont, IL
11.2021 - 05.2023
- - Works with other coworkers along with nurses and doctors from other hospitals to ensure adequate patient care
- - Uses safety precautions to prepare patient specimens such as aliquoting COVID samples, handling pap smears and making slides for viewing and diagnosing
- - Aids the Medical Technologists and running the Hologic Panthers for molecular testing
- - Taking phone calls for add on orders for any phone call, along with handling any problems that may arise
- - Follows safety precautions in making dilutions for alcohol and glacial acetic acid
- - Performs monthly, daily and weekly maintenance on machines
- - Does weekly testing and monitoring of COVID samples for variants
- - Engages in weekly conversations with IDPH about COVID infection rate and variant monitoring
Sales Lead
Decker’s Outdoor Corporation (UGG Store)
Chicago, IL
09.2015 - 10.2022
- - Manage fast-paced environment always utilizing results-oriented organizational and interpersonal skills with safety consciousness
- - Execute floor leadership alongside the store manager
- - Work with store management in opening, closing, and operating the retail facility as needed
- - Ability to deal with problems in a professional manner
Education
Bachelor of Science - Biology
University of Illinois at Chicago
05-2021
Master of Public Health - undefined
Benedictine University
12-2025
Skills
- Accountable for safety by identifying and correcting problems successfully
- Devoted to providing safe, high-quality patient care and promoting health equity
- Team player and motivated self-starter
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
- Proficient in Epic Beaker
- Proficient in Sunquest and SmarTerm
- Proficient in Unity Bio-Rad
- Proficient LUMEN
Certification
- CPR Training Basic Life Support (Obtained December 2024)
- 24 Hr. Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Training (Obtained December 2024)
- DOT and IATA Shipping Dangerous Goods (Obtained December 2024)
Languages
English
Spanish
Timeline
Lab Safety Specialist
Northwestern University
11.2024 - Current
Medical Lab Scientist
Alverno Laboratories (Holy Family Medical Center)
08.2022 - 11.2024
Lab Assistant Technical
ACL Laboratories
11.2021 - 05.2023
Sales Lead
Decker’s Outdoor Corporation (UGG Store)
09.2015 - 10.2022
Master of Public Health - undefined
Benedictine University
Bachelor of Science - Biology
University of Illinois at Chicago