Rita Francis

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Rita Francis's Problem Solving Skills:

1. Experience with the following operating systems: Unix, Red Hat Linux, OS/2, Win 3.1, Win 95, Win 98, Office 2000, Office 2003
2. End-user experience with Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, Outlook, Groupwise, Lotus Notes, Word Perfect, Word, Excel,
3. immunology experience including development, characterization, and employment of antibodies including anti-idiotypic antibodies
4. coursework and dissertation work in qualitative research, interviewing, narratives, focus group coordination
5. plant physiology and cell culture experience
6. business coursework in management, leadership, communication, legal aspect of IT management, systems integration, management of
7. troubleshooting in chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, and physcial chemistry
8. experience teaching organic and general chemistry; genetics; physiology; computing at the university level
9. biomedical writing experience including labeling for FDA compliance; editing publications to conferences/journals/tradeshows; m
10. running non-profit organizations including fund-raising, proposal generation, event planning, newsletter and other publication
11. experience in bone and mineral metabolism/research including histomorphometry, gene walking, assay development
12. experience in cardiovascular research in biochemistry/molecular biology
13. grant writing experience, former American Heart Association fellow
14. experience in R&D research in Women's health including ob/gyn issues related to cervical ripening, osteoporosis, calcitonin reg
15. cell culture experience including: generating recombinant/overexpressing cell lines, FACS, bioreactors, protein isolation, nucl
16. technical skills in molecular biology including: gene walking, RT-PCR, qPCR, gene reporter assays, cloning, RNA/DNA isolation,
17. biophysical chemistry experience including calorimetry, NMR, carbohydrate mapping, IR/UV-VIS/flurescence detection, XRD, capill
18. bioinformatics experience with NCBI SW, INSIGHT, Del Phi, Homology, Chime, Blast, Ras Mol, Geneworks, Plasmid Artist, MacVector
19. Virology experience in working with recombinant vaccinia viruses, SV-40 based viruses, HPV
20. Protein chemistry experience including FPLC, size-exclusion/affinity chromatography, HPLC, WESTERN, enzyme activity assays for
21. Statistics training with JMP, MATLAB, Mathematica, SAS, SPSS
22. Regulatory Affairs experience in preparing dossiers, INDs, NDAs, briefing documentation, SOPs, clinical trial reports, labeling
23. Computer Programming Training with HTML, UML, Java, C, C++, Visual Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Basic, learning Perl
24. Finance coursework experience in international/domestic finance, analysis of financial markets, prices and markets, entrepreneu

Rita Francis's Problem Solving Experience:

1. -Proposed IT solution/implementation/management proposal for taking a paper-based purchasing system to a complete electronically driven system (coursework) using scanners/bar coding technologies.
2. -Developed strategies, characterization techniques, processes related to hair-protein-dye interactions for personal care product development.
3. -Developed/characterized hydroxyquinone dyes-metal complexes through XRD, NMR, UV-Vis to use as nanomaterial building blocks (akin to DNA in gene construction); research presented at ACS meeting in Boston, MA, 2002
4. -Optimized overexpression of blood proteins in CHO cell line, vaccina virus, and e. coli including minimization of protease cleavage during expression process.
5. -Developed gene walking strategy/techniques for promoter mapping bone-related genes (CBFAs).
6. -Developed RT-PCR/SOUTHERN/NORTHERN techniques for characterization of cervical ripening (related to pre-term labor)via matrix metallo proteins (MMPs), collagen-related genes, and EP receptor profiling.
7. -Developed cAMP characterization of impact of several phosphodiesterases (PDE's) through radiolabeling and specialized FPLC techniques.
8. -Isolated/characterized inhibitor (of acetyl-CoA carboxylase) protein substance of fat metabolism (FAS) in rats through exercise training via liver, heart analysis.
9. -Proposed IT solution/implementation proposal for habitat restoration management using EPA data (coursework).
10. -Developed CE strategy/procedures for mapping DNA/Proteins from cellular extracts.
11. -Procured/setup/managed biocalorimetry center for well-known univeristy.