Nicholas Fayette
Arvada,CO
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Virologist, Lab Manager, Sterility Supervisor
Colorado Serum Company
Colorado
10.2022 - Current
- Oversee the entire production of numerous veterinarian vaccines from start to finish.
- Annually deliver large vaccine orders of over 1,000,000 doses months prior to the deadline.
- Ensure all production processes are compliant with the USDA’s CFR, IBC, and BSL safety regulations.
- Authored and enforced SOPs to improve workflows and reproducibility.
- Maintained a 100% audit pass rate from internal and USDA inspections.
- Reviewed and approved experimental data prior to reporting and submission.
- Added QC checkpoints across previous processes to ensure integrity and compliance.
Biosafety Professional
CU Anschutz
Colorado
04.2022 - 10.2022
- Serving as an IBC and IACUC voting member during protocol review processes.
- Manage the Regulated Medical Waste program for both Anschutz and Denver Campuses with an annual budget of $150,000.
- Provide technical oversight of the proper treatment and disposal of biological materials for over 1,300 labs.
- Assisting with the revision and publication of the Regulated Medical Waste Management plan.
- Daily management of 2 Biowaste Technicians.
- Conducting risk assessments and developing SOPs for compliance with safety and containment requirements at federal, state, and local regulations.
- Procurement and contract negotiations for large scale projects, along with project oversight and management.
- Technical grant writing for new projects.
Professional Research Assistant
CU Anschutz
Colorado
09.2019 - 04.2022
- Piloting my own experiments using chemogenic and optogenetic manipulations to study the various subsets of GABAergic neurons in the Ventral Pallidum to study their role in mediating reward and reward seeking behavior.
- Contribute to multi-disciplinary projects aimed at neural mechanisms driving relapse.
- Managed other research technicians to ensure research goals were met ahead of deadlines.
- Collaborate and coordinate with other PI’s, staff, and graduate students with similar interests.
Lab Intern
CU Boulder
Colorado
05.2018 - 09.2018
- Collaborating with graduate students to help finish their experiments in a timely manner.
- Applied serious organization and time management skills to uphold the best academic integrity.
- Ran behavioral experiments across multiple projects.
Timeline
Virologist, Lab Manager, Sterility Supervisor
Colorado Serum Company
10.2022 - Current
Biosafety Professional
CU Anschutz
04.2022 - 10.2022
Professional Research Assistant
CU Anschutz
09.2019 - 04.2022
Lab Intern
CU Boulder
05.2018 - 09.2018