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Experience (Professional)

Fall, 2014 - Current

St. Luke's Regional Health System  -  Pathology

Lab Assistant II

Night Shift Processing Supervisor

I work full-time as a trained Pathology Lab Assistant and have supervised the Core Lab's Processing night shift team for the last several years. I liason between outside clinics, labs, and healthcare-focused companies. This requires that I be able to effectively communicate with differing organizations and successfully explain sample analytics and logistics. More so, the 24-hour lab and my supervising of the night shift requires that I be able to independently make meaningful decisions for lab operations to ensure down-stream patient care. I have also been trained and work-in the more "bench" portions of the lab, including ensuring calibrations and specimen integrity. (Both of which increasingly rely on prior problem solving learned through past STEM experience.) I was deemed an essential Pathology employee for the hospital through the COVID-19 Pandemic, where my responsibilities were expanded. I love my work and the unique challenges that it consistently presents to me. I hope to be able to bring this uniquely gained problem solving skills into my career and feel that it would be a great asset!

Fall, 2022 - Current

Adjunct Faculty
Boise State University - Economics

I also serve as one of the few graduate students in an adjunct role where I independently co-lecture under Prof. Emre Balikci in "Economic Decision Making & The Environment" (UF 100). My lectures are composed of my own presentation material and are designed in ways that provide students a strong conceptual understanding of the material and then expand on practical application. This experience has refined my ability to present and deliver new or foreign information in a meaningful way that can be internalized and then used.

Experience (Academia)

Instructional Experience  -  Teaching Assistant

  •  Economics 201: Principles of Macroeconomics (Prof. Steve Hall; one semester)

  • Economics 202: Principles of Microeconomics  (Prof. Guido Giuntini; five semesters)

  • Economics 202: Principles of Microeconomics   (Prof. Steve Hall; two semesters)

  • Economics 303: Intermediate Microeconomics   (Prof. Geoffrey Black; two semesters)

  • Economics 303: Intermediate Microeconomics   (Prof. Kyle Brookman; two semesters)

  • Economics 317: International Economics   (Prof. Geoffrey Black; six semesters)

  • Economics 333: Natural Resource Economics   (Prof. Jayash Paudel; two semesters)

  • Economics 405/505: Public Finance   (Prof. Geoffrey Black; one semester)

Instructional Experience  -  Department Sponsored Tutor

Hired by the Department of Economics, I host regularly scheduled office hours where students may ask for free assistance and tutoring. Students enrolled in any Economics course are welcomed to use this service and my scheduled hours were advertised for all courses listed previously, but historically those enrolled in the courses below have most utilized this resource. For Econ 202, I also regularly hold exam preparations that average approx. 60 students in attendance per session.

  • Economics 202: Principles of Microeconomics

  • Economics 303: Intermediate Microeconomics

  • Economics 317: International Economics

Instructional Experience  -  Co-Lecturer/Lecturing Student

  • Economics 202: Principles of Microeconomics   (under supervision of Prof. Guido Giuntini; one semester)

  • University Foundations 100: Economic Decision Making & The Environment   (under supervision of Prof. Emre Balikci; two semesters)

Research Assistant  -  Prof. William Hughes    (Former)

Work focused on the synthesis, attachment, and measurement of quantum dot and/or gold nanoparticle arrays along formed DNA scaffolds (commonly called "DNA Origami"). Work performed culminated in a co-authorship on an article published in Nano Letters (an American Chemical Society publication).

Research Assistant  -  Prof. Geoffrey Black   (Ongoing)

Current work under Prof. Geoffrey Black and in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (through Idaho National Labs) has focused on the market analysis for Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). A recently completed publication examined the global market for SMRs. Current work is examining levelized cost of electricity production from multiple generation sources where I am developing a unique calculating method for price comparisons.

Research Assistant  -  Prof. Stephanie Lenhart   (Former)

Work under Prof. Stephanie Lenhart and in collaboration with researchers at Duke as well as policy makers with the Alaska Energy Authority was focused on the role of energy cooperatives within Alaska and how evolving policy proposals ought to view and account for these cooperatives. This work was performed under a Fellowship granted by the Energy Policy Institute.

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