1. Technical Skills
Pharmaceutical Processing Preparation of aseptic syringes and multi-dose vials, sterility
validation assay, wet granulation, drying in a fluid bed drying,
milling granules using quadro co-mill, dissolution testing, TGA,
DSC, HPLC, gel formulation
Microbiology skills Aseptic and sterile techniques, optical microscopy, bacterial
staining, plating methods (streak, spread, pour, replica),
enumeration and identification of bacteria, use of biological safety
cabinets, media and buffer preparation, conjugation
Biochemistry and Cell &
Molecular Biology skills
DNA extraction, plasmid DNA preparation, restriction enzyme
digests, PCR, agarose gel electrophoresis, SDS-PAGE, cell
fractionation by differential centrifugation, preparation of cells for
cryopreservation, dissection of rat brain tissue, organotypic brain
slice culture.
Chemistry skills Solution preparation, titrations, extractions filtrations, separations,
simple and fractional distillation, mp and bp determination,
solubility tests, determination of index of refraction, freezing point
depression, simple syntheses, thinlayer chromatography, liquid
chromatography, gas chromatography, reflux, recrystallization
Spectroscopy and
Microscopy skills
Mass spectroscopy, confocal laser scanning microscopy, light
microscopy, transmission electron microscopy
Employment History
Mar 2015 – Present Multilingual Customer
Experience Specialist Airbnb
Voxpro, Cork
June – Dec 2015 Sales Assistant SWAMP, Cork
June – Aug 2013 Research Assistant Conway Institute of
Technology, UCD, Dublin
Dec 2010- May 2012 Bartender Cricket Club, Ranelagh, Dublin
Transferable Skills
Presentation: Strong presentation skills and confidence demonstrated by experience of delivering
regular presentations at university.
Communication/Adaptability: Ability to quickly build rapport with customers and calmly deal
with any problems.
Problem Solving: Optimised immunofluorescence assay for difficult staining oligodendrocyte cells