Mohammad Afana
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MPH | Senior Lab Technician at Avantor-BioMarin
South San Francisco, California, United States
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Clinical Laboratory Associate IIGuardant HealthDec 2025 - Current (11 months)• Assist in pre-analytical and/or assay-assist tasks as authorized by the Laboratory Director
• Follow laboratory procedures for specimen handling and processing, and equipment maintenance in accordance with the laboratory's standard operating procedures
• Adhere to laboratory's quality control policies, document all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and maintenance performed
• Follow laboratory's established policies and procedures whenever test systems are not within the laboratory's established acceptable level of performance
• Identify problems that may affect test performance or reporting of test results and must immediately notify the General Supervisor, Technical Supervisor, Clinic- Sr. Lab Technician - QC Viral Vector Analytical/QCA Cell and Molecular Biology, Avantor - BioMarinAvantorNov 2022 - Dec 2025 (3 years 2 months)• Major responsibilities consist of making quantitative measurements, assisting in/performing several routine tasks according to standard procedures per GLPs & GMPs
• Closely adhering to EHS standard procedures in waste removal (hazardous, non-hazardous, universal)
• Repeated handling of pipettes, balances, pH meters & other various scientific laboratory equipment
• Maintaining laboratory notebooks, testing records, or worksheets per GDPs & housekeeping procedures
• Streamline processes & manage associated risks within the QC lab environment with EHSQ Software solutions using ProccesMap/Intelex establishing consistency & providing insights to improve Health & Safety performance & ROI
• Investigating & evaluating var - S2L intern with the NASA-funded program Soundscapes to LandscapesPoint Blue Conservation ScienceJan 2020 - Jul 2020 (7 months)• Partnered with other interns, scientist, & community members in validating & analyzing bird populations across northern Sonoma County using new sonar technology: RFCx Arbimon software
• Validated over 20,000 recordings analyzing spectrograms & waveforms, mapping the species distribution models with a 95% consensus rate contributing to the 2,330 hours of work done on the project by citizen scientist in 2020 alone - a record year for participation
• Contributed to the development of a convolutional neural network trained to identify the recordings of species & ability to correct those identities using statistical modeling resulting in about 100% of ID’s to be true positive
• Provided robust efforts to finishing up the collect
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- master, Master of Public Health - MPH Health Policy & ManagementUniversity of Hawaii at ManoaJan 2025 - Current (1 year 10 months)
- bachelor, B.A. Geography & Environment with Distinction Concentration: Society Environment & DevelopmentSonoma State UniversityJan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)
- Summer Abroad Program Arabic Language and LiteratureUniversity of HaifaJan 2019
- Associate of Arts - AA Political Science and GovernmentDiablo Valley CollegeJan 2015 - Jan 2018 (3 years 1 month)
- Associate of Arts - AA Political Science and GovernmentDiablo Valley CollegeJan 2015 - Jan 2018 (3 years 1 month)