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Insight Connect SolutionsBusiness Consultant
Nov. 2024CanadaI play a key role in developing businesses across Canada through consulting services. • Provided strategic hiring recommendations for a new player in the Edmonton nightlife scene. • Assisted in developing strategic goals and business plans for a non-profit in Calgary. • Developed business plan and consulted on strategic engagement plan for a medical esthetics clinic in Milton, Ontario. • Provided project management and coordination services for a networking event engaging Edmonton small businesses and artists. • Developed pitch decks and provided advice on investment strategies for early stage academic start-ups
Coco’s Cocktails & Agave BarCo-Founder
Aug. 2024
SVG Ventures | THRIVECorporate Innovation Manager
Sep. 2023 - Sep. 2024In this role, activities are focused on growing the Agri-food industry through driving investment, offer accelerator programs, and facilitating corporate partnerships targeted towards open innovation. The main goal of our organization is to advance the food and agriculture sector through innovation to provide a more sustainable future. We work with corporates to create strategic pipelines that identify value, leverage opportunities, and result in scalable impacts for the corporates we work with. This includes creating a corporate innovation strategy, focusing on partnership outcomes, and working with the THRIVE innovation platform to assess and drive innovation.
Family Advocacy Support CentreBoard Chair
May. 2022 - Jan. 2023Calgary, Alberta, CanadaIn my capacity as the Board Chair, responsibilities included guiding and directing the board to prioritize strategic issues in discussions and operations, and assisting with strategic operations and initiatives. This also included consulting with the Executive Director on organizational strategic advancements.
AMR - One Health ConsortiumProject Manager
Jan. 2022 - Sep. 2023Alberta, CanadaAs the AMR Project Manager, oversaw the management of consortium research teams, organized meetings with consortium members to explore funding opportunities, and fostered stakeholder engagement with collaborators and organizations within the Antimicrobial Resistance - One Health spectrum. The role involved collaborative and independent work to support the AMR team in coordinating, planning, and executing knowledge transfer events and activities aligned with the initiative's strategic plan. Emphasis was placed on the commercialization of research projects, with active involvement in providing information, guidance, and resources for research leaders aiming to share their research with the broader community. In addition to aiding with the commercialization of research, also planned stakeholder engagement sessions, conferences, and financial reporting for 32 research projects across 3 different institutions. Managed multimillion dollar research projects, and was responsible for compiling the reporting metrics for granting agencies.
Livestock GentecResearch Coordinator
Apr. 2017 - Sep. 2023Alberta, CanadaResponsible for planning, organizing, and monitoring research projects within the Livestock Gentec lab. Responsibilities encompassed ordering materials, training personnel, and overseeing timelines and deadlines for various ongoing studies at Gentec. Additionally, organizational tasks involved compiling and managing results from analyses, as well as handling financial management associated with the studies. Also supported the day-to-day lab activities, such as inventory maintenance, shipping/receiving, and reviewing SOP and EHS documents. In addition to managing the lab activities, also completed data analyses for a Bovine Respiratory disease study, with findings published in Frontiers in Genetics in 2021. Served as a project lead for a work package within the AMR - One Health Consortium, focusing on investigating resilience parameters in animal models to mitigate antimicrobial use in livestock. Duties within this context included crafting grant proposals and acting as a liaison between the principal investigators and potential collaborators at institutions across Canada and the US to achieve project objectives.
FroggaBio IncAccount Manager
Jan. 2017 - Mar. 2017Edmonton, Calgary and SaskatoonGained valuable experience in maintaining the sales accounts in various labs across Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as finding new accounts to add to the client base. This position required a high amount of travel, interaction with people, and preparation of invoices.
Agriculture and Agri-Food CanadaMSc Student
Sep. 2012 - Apr. 2016Lethbridge, ABCompleted graduate level research in the field of intestinal health, nutrition and microbiology. Working under Dr. G. Doug Inglis and Richard and Trina Uwiera of the U of A.
ALS - North America, EnvironmentalLogin Technician
Sep. 2011 - Dec. 2011Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaWorked as a login technician responsible for reviewing environmental samples, and providing the proper coding for the various test to be performed on them. Ensured samples were properly coded and sent to the correct departments for further processing.
Agriculture and Agri-Food CanadaLab Technician
Sep. 2009 - Aug. 2010Lethbridge, Alberta, CanadaWorked as intern for one year, helping out with research in the Ruminant Nutrition department. Performed experiments involving analyzing the nutritional value and digestions of different types of feed and supplements. Also worked on a project using an in vitro rumen simulation apparatus to study the breakdown on various feed types in a controlled rumen environment.
QSV BiologicsQA assistant
Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2009Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaWorked as a Quality Assurance assistant responsible for writing environmental monitoring reports, and performing audits on pharmaceutical labs.
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