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ONDREIA Clarke

WEST PALM BEACH,FL

Summary

Entrepreneurial and globally minded leader skilled in driving business viability and collaborating with diverse stakeholders across international markets. Ondreia Clarke is a distinguished healthcare and research leader with experience across prestigious institutions, including the Mayo Clinic, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Institutes of Health. At the Mayo Clinic, she has guided departments and multinational teams, bridging patient care, biomedical research, and public health. Her career reflects a strong track record in advancing innovation, leading teams, and driving impact across global healthcare systems. Recognized for exceptional communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills, she is a trusted advisor and innovative strategist who fosters cross-cultural collaboration, adaptability, and sustainable growth while ensuring success for both individuals and organizations.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Graduate Student Mentor

Walden University
- Current
  • Support students in their educational planning and progress from enrollment to graduation
  • Helping to ensure students are frequently engaging with Faculty in any area where they require deeper academic support.
  • Maintaining regular communication with students according to university protocol.
  • Serve as an expert in their students' academic program details and are able to answer or to obtain answers to all the questions students may have about their programs.
  • Advise students on time management and schedule benchmarks for the student to successfully master program concepts, knowledge, and skills.
  • Teach students how to identify their learning strengths and weaknesses and connect them with the necessary university resources to aid in their academic success.

Founder

Upskill Education Service
11.2022 - Current
  • Upskill Education Service is an online platform dedicated to helping professionals in health science, public health, and STEM develop modern career skills that enable them to thrive in the digital economy. Through programs led by elite industry experts, UPSKILL focuses on building agility, leadership, and problem-solving abilities, equipping learners with the strategies and tools needed to advance their careers in a rapidly evolving world.

    Through its Ripple Effect Initiative, each course purchased provides free access to one course for aspiring professionals in underserved global communities, fostering knowledge sharing and driving individual and community liaison of successful team building relationships with internal partners
  • Optimize Health organization and STEM student portfolio
  • Develop Learning and Development modules for Pre-professional health students
  • Instructor Professional Development skills to pre-professional health students at Barry University
  • Established partnerships with local organizations to provide resources for students.

National Specimen Processing Sr.Manager

Mayo Clinic
01.2016 - 09.2019
  • Responsible for the development and management of national department and staff. Responsible for the oversight of Specimen Processors in executing the delivery of Mayo Clinic Laboratories support for community-based laboratories unique to each client's needs. Provide oversight to Specimen Processors to ensure client retention by driving the cross-departmental Mayo Clinic Laboratories Support Staff to analyze client concerns and prioritize opportunities to improve delivery of service throughout the United States. Developed and taught hospital executives multiple formalized national operational assessments, training/orientation modules, and competencies that are tools used to on-board new employees
  • Increased quality report improvement by leading and developing multiple internal projects, not limited to Quality Efficiency tracking systems, to capture quantifiable data at Mayo Clinic Laboratory reference client sites.
  • Implemented and manage a value-added Specimen Processor training team that consistently over-delivers on customer expectations.
  • Implemented national department strategies which resulted in an increase of 17,000 - 50,000 processed biological specimens at client sites YTD, with an annualized incremental revenue growth of 463% for Mayo Clinic Laboratories.
  • Managed over 30 client-vendor sites with onsite employees nationally, and responsible for on-going product optimization and creative client assessment management.

Lead Clinical Laboratory Technician

National Institutes of Health (NIH),Mayo Clinic
01.2014 - 01.2016
  • Key planner in integrating Mayo Clinic's aliquot/primary tubes and preferred specimen volume to comply with the MPA and P150 aliquot machine at the Department of Laboratory Medicine at NIH
  • Constructed detailed Mayo test listing for client in order to upgrade the NIH software upgrade.
  • Successfully developed new troubleshooting and documentation strategies within the Mayo Clinic Specimen Processing bench (NIH campus), and standardized multiple processes regarding specimen handling and stabilization.
  • Strengthened partnership as liaison with Mayo Medical Laboratories and Department of Laboratory (NIH).

Scientific Research Technician

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
04.2013 - 08.2013
  • Contract Laboratory research technician and assistant to the HHMI SEA PHAGES Biology Project.
  • Served as a teaching assistant in mycobacterium phage biology workshops to aid faculty/staff members from various universities with phage biology research protocols.
  • Set-up, inventoried, and dismantled all components for phage biology, NIH, and GCAT synthetic biology workshops.
  • Conducted mycobacterium phage biology research including but not limited to plaque isolation, DNA purification, genomic sequence analysis, and sample preparation for Electron Microscopy analysis.
  • Performed data analysis and presented research findings to laboratory head and colleagues at HHMI Janelia Research Campus.

Molecular Genetic Laboratory Technician

Oklahoma State University
01.2011 - 01.2013
  • Aided in development and application of a rapid system for site-directed mutagenesis for photoactive yellow protein (PYP).
  • Maintained proper laboratory technique, including careful data collection and analysis records.
  • Engaged in laboratory meetings, reported findings to colleagues, and presented findings at national meetings.
  • Key techniques employed on a regular basis include, but are not limited to:
  • - Molecular cloning
  • - Column Chromatography
  • - PCR
  • - Mass spectrometry
  • - DNA extraction
  • - Site-directed mutagenesis
  • - Gel electrophoresis
  • - Protein purification
  • - Cell sonication

Education

Doctorate of Public Health (DrPH) -

Walden University
06.2026

Master of Science - Biomedical Science

Barry University
Miami, Florida
05.2021

Bachelor of Science - Biological Science/Cellular and Molecular Microbiology

Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
08.2012

Skills

  • Academic advising
  • Motivation techniques
  • Community relations
  • Study strategies

Affiliations

  • Hematology Rounds (Participant) - Hematology Department, National Institute of Health
  • Infectious Disease Rounds (Participant) - Microbiology Department, National Institute of Health
  • Health Project Management Institute (PMI) Course Completion
  • Project Management Institute (PMI) Course Completion

Community Outreach


  • L.I.T. A’s Butterflies Empowerment, Outreach,

     Founder and Chief Organizer,

      Washington, DC, 2017, -2020

 L.I.T. A’s Butterflies primary mission to mentor, motivate, and expand the vision of children in underrepresented communities that are overcoming insurmountable obstacles from various backgrounds. This program creates a platform that will equip underrepresented youth with the necessary tools to develop self-esteem, goal-setting, and strategic planning to accomplish personal goals that will produce a healthy lifestyle as they transition into adulthood., Acquired successful partnerships with the National Center for Children and Families (NCCF), D.C. Women and Children Shelter, and J.C. Nalle Community School and implemented engaging projects, to include:, Spearheaded local community empowerment events in low income neighborhoods, Developed employment readiness workshops, Launched “NIH Women in Science” seminar for underserved D.C. metropolitan youth, Created parent community support groups, Led, oversaw, recruited, and managed over 100 volunteers

Timeline

Founder

Upskill Education Service
11.2022 - Current

National Specimen Processing Sr.Manager

Mayo Clinic
01.2016 - 09.2019

Lead Clinical Laboratory Technician

National Institutes of Health (NIH),Mayo Clinic
01.2014 - 01.2016

Scientific Research Technician

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
04.2013 - 08.2013

Molecular Genetic Laboratory Technician

Oklahoma State University
01.2011 - 01.2013

Graduate Student Mentor

Walden University
- Current

Master of Science - Biomedical Science

Barry University

Bachelor of Science - Biological Science/Cellular and Molecular Microbiology

Oklahoma State University

Doctorate of Public Health (DrPH) -

Walden University

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