Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Researcher, tech enthusiast, and onto the job market.
• Led up to 16 concurrent direct reports, including recruitment, onboarding, training, mentoring, and performance management of team consisting of post-doctoral/clinical fellows, unionized staff, students, and volunteers • Directed grant and award lifecycles, from application development, grant writing, to project initiation all while ensuring strict adherence to funding agency requirements • Accurate fiscal management and signing authority for the grant portfolio performing invoicing with internal and external vendors, purchasing, procurement, bid waivers, audit, account setup, and budgeting to ensure compliance with expenditure guidelines • Contractual review and negotiation of agreements in collaboration with legal counsel to mitigate risks in compliance with ethical, regulatory, and institutional policies • Maintained research-specific hardware and software, including custom programming in Unity, MATLAB, E-Prime, and PsychoPy deployed through AWS and GitHub • Optimized day to day operations by leading project management initiatives, ensuring accurate and secure data collection, storage, and analysis, and streamlining timelines and task delegation for new and existing projects
• Prepared materials for classes, tutorials or laboratories including lessons slides and assignments, managed course information in learning management system • Instructed, lectured and supervised classes, tutorials, and laboratories for 1 class of 17 students in person, distance learning, and hybrid formats • Evaluation of and scored essays, assignments, laboratory reports, and term tests in addition to proctored in-person and online examinations • Act as resource to answer students’ questions through correspondence of meetings, office hours, lectures and tutorials
• Prepared materials for classes, tutorials or laboratories including lessons slides and assignments, inputted information in e-learning platform • Instructed, lectured and supervised classes, tutorials, or laboratories for 2 classes of 16 students each • Evaluation of and scored essays, assignments, laboratory reports, and term tests in addition to proctored in-person and online examinations • Act as resource to answer students’ questions through correspondence of meetings, office hours, lectures and tutorials
• Prepared materials for classes, tutorials or laboratories including lessons slides and assignments, inputted information in e-learning platform • Instructed, lectured and supervised classes, tutorials, or laboratories for 2 classes of 20 students each • Evaluation of and scored essays, assignments, laboratory reports, and term tests in addition to proctored in-person and online examinations • Act as resource to answer students’ questions through correspondence of meetings, office hours, lectures and tutorials
• Managed neuropsychological lab as first point of contact in addition to coordination of meetings, developed recruitment strategies, monitored and validated data, developed and ran data analyses, trained new personnel, and other administrative duties • Organized and led meetings to review, assess, and optimize project timeline and goals to provide Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reports to grant agency • Tracked project budgets to report and balance financial expenses in addition to approving purchases, making requisitions, obtaining invoices and receipts for project expenses • Liaised with multi-site multidisciplinary team including doctors, scientists, clinical and technical staff, financial and operations staff, researchers, students, and volunteers • Prepared and submitted study protocols, manuscripts, addendums, amendments, renewals, and deviations for Research Ethics Board and Health Canada review in addition to maintenance of each study regulatory binder for laboratory projects
• Designed and monitored experiment stimuli, data entry and organization, pre-processing, and statistical analysis of big data in research programs based in MATLAB, NBS Presentation, E-Prime, IBM SPSS, and Unix to modernize experimental pipelines • Assisted in preparing materials for grants including proposed budgets, written proposals, conference abstracts, literature searches, manuscripts, tables and figures, extracted from databases to run data analyses • Trained on level 1 MRI safety for working within a 3T research MR environment, administration of neuropsychological assessments and questionnaires • Managed all technical-based lab concerns including troubleshooting hardware, programming and computer-based inquiries, in addition to administrative requests