Michelle Carcamo
Redwood City,CA
Summary
In Vivo Research Technician with extensive hands-on experience in preclinical rodent studies. Specializes in animal husbandry, health monitoring, and technical procedures such as IV and IP dosing. Experienced in tumor inoculation, blood sampling, and tissue harvesting. Knowledgeable in breeding colony management and animal welfare regulations, while ensuring compliance with SOPs and USDA guidelines.
Overview
2
2
Languages
1
1
Certification
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Research Associate
Astellas Pharma
09.2026 - Current
- Maintained laboratory compliance with SOPs, safety requirements, and quality standards.
- Set up equipment and organize inventory
- Measure, implant and track PDX models
- Participated in lab meetings and project presentations.
- Adhered to laboratory safety procedures to maintain compliance with quality control standards.
- Study log tracker for tumor growth in studies
- Use tattoo machine for mouse identification
Animal Technician II
Inno+, San Francisco Bay Area
10.2024 - 08.2026
- Provide animal husbandry support to multiple work sites throughout the Bay Area.
- Perform animal husbandry duties and proper animal care in each site.
- Ensured compliance with animal welfare standards and site-specific protocols while working independently.
- Coordinate travel and time management between work sites to support animal care operations and research support.
- Conduct daily animal care, including feeding, watering, health monitoring, and habitat maintenance across various locations.
- Oversaw inventory management of feed, bedding, supplies, and equipment across multiple sites.
- Demonstrated attention to detail while documenting observations. while performing technical task and documenting observations.
- Maintain clean and sanitized facilities.
- Use Excel, Google Sheets, Google Calendar and Google Drive.
- Performed technical support for lung inflation.
- Received training in necropsy procedures on mice for research purposes. on mice for testes, epididymis, seminal vesicles and prostate coagulate.
- Conducted genotyping on rat pups.
- Performed ear tagging of rat pups for identification purposes., tail marking and tail clipping on rat pups.
- Engaged in training for handling rabbits safely and effectively..
In Vivo Technician
ALX Oncology, Palo Alto
04.2023 - 08.2024
- Responsible for the daily care of research animals, maintaining a clean environment, daily dosing and daily observation of the overall health of the animal.
- All animal husbandry
- Daily dosing
- IV, PO, SQ and IP experience.
- Daily tumor measurements, tumor inoculation and tissue collection
- IV injections, IP injections and IVIS
- Terminal blood collection in PK studies
- Usda regulations and laboratory animal welfare guidelines
- Use Excel, Word, Acrobat
- Accurately completes room logs, other forms
- Monitors environmental parameters, condition of animal rooms and equipment in rooms, and proper functioning of mechanical systems.
- Order and stock necessary supplies for the animal facility.
- Sanitization of designated rooms on a quarterly basis as well as assisted with Hydrogen Peroxide room.
- Trained/showed new co workers on how to do body weight and tumor measurements including some injections ex. IV injections, tumor inoculation, IP, SUBQ
- Trained new co workers on animal facilities which included cage cage, temperature /humidity, feeding and watering, transporting and maintaining animal care rooms clean and sanitized.
- Walk through animal facility with IACUC learned how to keep rooms clean and sanitized
Animal Technician I and Animal Technician II
Charles River Laboratories, South San Francisco
09.2021 - 01.2023
- Responsible for all husbandry tasks including health monitoring. I would check and record each room everyday to make sure the maintenance and colony of animals would be proper and accurate to what the project manager and client want.
- All cage wash duties (operate cage washers, VHP equipment and autoclaves).
- Operated cage wash equipment and used supplies according to safety guidelines; performs general housekeeping and adheres to safety procedures.
- Weaning, mating genotype.
- Cleaned and sanitized animal caging and accessory equipment and maintained the cage washing area in a clean, neat and well-organized manner following approved SOP’s and/or department guidelines/policies.
- Disposed of all waste materials, including biohazard and hazardous waste, in a safe and thorough manner as required.
- Assisted with the receipt, place order, stocking inventory, and maintenance of supplies.
- Placing animal orders and shipping animals on Cayuse and ICM
- Reports maintenance need to appropriate personnel
- Implement breeding specialized on rodent, establish new mating, retired breeders, identifies pregnant animal, completes all breeding record and card
- Animal receiving, visually conduct inspections or evaluation and monitor animal to identify potential aggressor or medical issues, sign of illness and abnormal behaviors
- Communicate with research staff on issues involving animal health breeding, or regulation matters
- Work with BSL2 rooms and quarantine
- Worked with clients on studies that include IV injections, euthanasia, genotyping, tumor inoculation/tumor measurements/body weights, PO and blood collection (tail vein and cardiac)
Sales associate
Nordstrom, Palo Alto
01.2018 - 09.2021
- Returned as a sales associate but then transferred into working in the restaurant industry.
- At the restaurant, Bazille, worked as a hostess and cashier greeting customers.
- Make customers feel welcome by offering menus, chatting and making sure they leave with a delicious meal to enjoy.
- Walk them over our menu and tell them our dishes and what they have in them.
- Assists personal and other users of facility in various activities
- Instructs personnel in proper maintenances procedure Order, receive and stores supplies and equipment.
Education
High School Diploma -
Sequoia High School
Redwood City01-2018
Skills
- Animal Husbandry
- Handling and Restraint (Mice and Rats)
- Blood collection (Tail Vein, Cardiac)
- Observation for Health and Clinical Observation
- Recording room logs
- Training New Animal Care Technicians
- Dosing (SUBQ, PO, IP)
- Necropsy
- Ear and Tail Sample collection
- Ear tags
- Weaning/Mating/Genotyping
- Rat (SUBQ)
- Body weights
- Tumor measurement
- SOPs
- Shaving
- Rodent Euthanasia
- PK
- IVIS
- Tumor Inoculation
- RO (introduced)
- Communication
- Bilingual write and speak fluent Spanish and English
- Hard Worker
- Creativity
- Ability to work under pressure
- Motivated
- Teamwork
- Customer service
- Attention to detail
- Quick learner
- Desire to learn and improve
- Take risks
- Patient
- Multitasking
Certification
Rat Tickling
Interests
Project Read, Redwood City 2014-2015, Helped kids from 1st to 6th grade do their homework and do activities with them, Menlo Park Senior Center, Menlo Park 2016, Talked, played board games, and served/made food for the elders, Karate 2006-2021, Have done Tae Kwon Do, Kickboxing, Mixed Martial Arts, and Jiu Jitsu
Languages
English
Spanish
Timeline
Research Associate
Astellas Pharma
09.2026 - Current
Animal Technician II
Inno+, San Francisco Bay Area
10.2024 - 08.2026
In Vivo Technician
ALX Oncology, Palo Alto
04.2023 - 08.2024
Animal Technician I and Animal Technician II
Charles River Laboratories, South San Francisco
09.2021 - 01.2023
Sales associate
Nordstrom, Palo Alto
01.2018 - 09.2021
High School Diploma -
Sequoia High School