HEIDI A TAIT
294 Hickory Lane
Lake Barrington, IL 60010
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015 – 2018 Board of Trustees, West Congregational Church, Concord, NH. Took care of day to day church maintenance, oversaw and created the annual budget for approval by the general council, and organized charity events. Brian Wheeler, Church Trustee Chair: - – Present, Online ESL teacher. I teach students to speak English form my home online.
2014 – Present Technical, medical, and business writer. I create content in these areas for clients and do fact-checking/editing/SEO/marketing. I have published research items in my name on Seeking Alpha on the oil industry as well as other markets. Please see my portfolio at the following web address, if you would like to see more of my work please contact me: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/s8winywp7dmir6q/AADvLz-LHCWki1WRsYbrGMc_a?dl=0
2012 – Present Self-Employed Retail Trader. My dream is to build a hedge fund to support graduate fellows in a STEM outreach program and offer scholarships to prospective university students in STEM fields of study.
2010 – 2011 Regional student representative and new student mentor for the Graduate School of Biosciences.
Organize student meetings and outings in collaboration with two other student representatives. Duties included democratically polling the student body on activities, creating a budget, budget approval, venue and transportation organization and polling again to assess the success of the activities.
Lead monthly student meetings and keep an open discussion with the program director as to what is going on in the region.
Mentoring new students, this involved a monthly meeting between myself and the students to talk about how they are doing in the program, helping them to troubleshoot problems they may be having in the lab, how they are dealing with moving to a new area and to act as a general line of support.
I also worked with students to find housing and extracurricular activities in the Southern Maine area.
2009 – 2011 Member of the Research Fellows Leadership Association.
This is a collaborative group between the Maine Medical Research Institute (MMCRI) and the University of Southern Maine. I sat as a USM representative and was responsible for sending the minutes out to graduate students at USM. Polling USM students on activities, class units being offered at MMCRI and communicating with the leadership association any problems concerning graduate student wellbeing that arose at USM.
2007 – 2010 Volunteer one day a week at first the Longfellow then the Pond Cove elementary schools in Portland and Cape Elizabeth, Maine respectively.
At both schools I spent 5 hours a week in the classroom working with children from kindergarten up to third grade on assorted subjects, aiding the teacher in organization of projects for the following day as well as restocking shelves in the library-PhD student Graduate School of Biosciences cellular and molecular biology track. Principle Investigator, Stephen Pelsue.
During this time, I learned many skills. First, I have refined my problem-solving skills; this comes from a plethora of sources. Problem solving as far as the development of my dissertation, what it is to involve, how I am to execute it, hypothesis development as well as problems solving in the laboratory.
I gained experience in grant writing, in addition to a class that I took I also wrote two grants, one to the American heart Association and another to the National Institute of Ageing (NIA). The one written to the NIA had been scored with a 350-priority score and the reasoning behind it not being funded was that my program was too small and my PI had not graduated enough doctoral students.
I produced power point presentations to present my new data to peers and other scientists around Maine at the graduate school of biosciences annual meeting at the University of Maine in Orono and the Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium located at the Mt Desert Island Biological Laboratories in Bar Harbor.
In many of the labs I worked in I had been developed and ran experiments that had not been done before, so there was planning, careful preparation, troubleshooting and complicated analysis that I successfully completed independently.
2006 – Chemistry, Math and Physics tutor for students at Chevrus and Cape Elizabeth schools. Margo Wood, Tutoring Customer (grandson), Email:-
2004 – 2006 University of Southern Maine Chemistry Department Tutor. Rhonda Schaefer
Involved posting hours to offer tutoring services for students in general chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry and physical chemistry.
2004 – 2006 University of Southern Maine Chemistry Department Teaching Assistant. Rhonda Schaefer
This position involved helping students to acquaint themselves with the organic chemistry lab, help them use the GCMS, the proton/carbon NMR, IR UV and Fluorescent spectroscopes, the HPLC as well as answer any questions students had about the procedure of the lab for that day.
Summer 2005, Summer Intern at Maine Medical Research Institute (MMCRI). Leif Oxburgh
During this time, I had the opportunity to work in my first real world research setting. Here I learned immunohistochemistry, perfusion, glomerular extraction and culture. Microdisection and had the opportunity to assemble my first research-based power point and present to the PI’s and students of MMCRI. - Cleaner for Merchant’s Cleaning, day work during the summer and night time office cleaning during the school year. Karin Merchant, owner of Merchant’s Cleaning
During the summers, we worked in teams to clean 6-8 large houses a day.
During the school year I worked independently to clean offices after hours.
2001 – 2004 Worked as a specimen processor and phlebotomist at NorDx laboratories, located at Maine Medical Center. Current Manager
Specimen processing involved data entry, ensuring patient safety by double checking name and birthdate with order entered, order entry, answering the phone, processing and shipping specimens to the parent building to be processed.
As a phlebotomist I worked to ensure patient comfort and safety while taking amounts blood or other specimens, order entry, answering the phone and keeping myself and coworkers safe from airborne illness, dirty needle sticks and exposure to other specimens. - Wait staff Eastland Park Hotel, Decoupage and Banquet service. Events Coordinator
Served banquets as well as in the restaurant, this involved primarily good customer and coworker service skills. - Wait staff Black Point Inn, received employee of the month February 1999. Brian Comenthal
Here I played the role of dining room and banquet staff trainer, I taught good customer service skill, how to use the computer systems, what needs to be done around the restaurant from the moment your shift starts until you are told you can leave. I always kept the dining room clean, the silverware polished and the coffee fresh.
EDUCATION
2006, B.S. Chemistry. University of Southern Maine. Advisor, Dr. Thomas Newton.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2010, Spring Travel Award, competitive award provided by the Graduate School of Biosciences (GSBS) UMaine, money for travel to IMMUNOLOGY 2010 in Baltimore, MD, $1500.
Here I had the opportunity to prepare and present my data in poster form at a large conference of immunologists.
2009 – 2011, Maine ScienceCorps Fellowship, to provide a two-year stipend and graduate classes for students that wish to learn to communicate sciences to the public by teaching in rural public schools sixteen days out of the year, $30K/yr. S. Monroe Duboise Ph.D. -, Outstanding Senior, Chemistry Department, USM.
2005, Dorothy Montgomery Scholarship for Outstanding Women in English and Science, $800.
