Andrea West

• Oversee daily operations of the department, ensuring smooth workflow and timely completion of tasks.
• Applying strong leadership talents and problem-solving skills to maintain team efficiency and organize workflows.
• Maintain compliance with company policies, objectives, and communication goals.
• Evaluate employee performance and provide coaching to improve weak areas.
• Increased team productivity by implementing efficient workflows and setting clear expectations for staff members.
• Maintained overall safe work environment with employee training programs and enforcement of safety procedures.
• Collect, arrange, and input information into Spreadsheet database system.
• Create and manage environments for animals to thrive in, and completed Quarterly billing for animal care.

• Overseeing a staff of 2 full time, 1 part time staff and 5 part time weekend staff

• Communicating with vendors and suppliers

• Collaborating with laboratory Staff, Students, University Veterinarian

• Conduct interviews, hire and train staff

• Manage staffs schedules and vacation/ holiday time

• Collaborate in teaching mouse workshops for Maritime Business College

• Write Standard Operating Procedures for the facility and upgrade aspects of the day to day in the facility

• Advise labs on their animals and protocols

• Assist in surgical procedures with the Veterinarian and lab professionals, maintain the surgical space

• Treat injured animals as needed and administered medications as prescribed

• Advise staff on handling different animal situations

• Order animals and other products for the researchers

• Enter animals into Universities' animal database (ROMEO)

• Communicate with facilities maintenance team

• Perform euthanasia's and necropsies on many different species as well as fecal flotations and urine analysis

• Maintained clean and safe living environments for animals by conducting regular inspections and cleaning enclosures thoroughly.
• Monitored animal behavior to detect any signs of distress, illness, or injury, taking appropriate action when necessary.

• Preformed euthanasia's

• Wrote Standard Operating Procedures for the facility

• Assisted in surgical procedures with the Veterinarian and laboratory personnel

• Advised labs on specialized tasks and Standard Operating Procedures for experiments

• Assisted with animal training workshops with Dalhousie's training coordinator

• Manage unique transgenic mouse colony

• Conduct trials/experiments using new drug candidates in a variety of animal test systems

• Adhere to Good Laboratory Practices and Standard Operating Procedures

• Perform specialized mouse surgery under microscope

• Implantation of various tumor models

• Administration of various treatments using a variety of methods

• Training new staff and Co-Op students

• Phenotyping

• Data collection and interpretation

• Preformed euthanasia, necropsy, tissue collection, dendritic cell collection

• Processed samples