Kohan Ketch

• Skills developed include: Internal auditing, extensive protein workflows, cloning workflows, nucleic acid physical kinetics, research lab procurement, research framework design, comprehensive lab budgeting, research funding procurement.
• Led a team of 12 students on the Finance Team. Responsibilities include assigning fund applications, working with members to develop LEAN business model, coordinating outreach.
• Responsible for all purchases made by the student-led research group., and securing funding for the project.
• Assisted in designing a multi-array diagnostic tool for sepsis.
• Conducted and optimized extensive protein, nucleic acid, and cloning protocols.
• Helped run multiple educational initiatives and workshops, conversed with countless members of research community, venture capital, medical policymaking.
• Organized a biology-themed conference for students that hosted keynote speakers from institutions across North America
• Helped develop an extensive business plan to outline product scale-up and launch for the project, along with a market analysis and several pitch decks for stakeholders.

Stood as a liaison between patient families and physicians help explain care techniques; assisted in organizational within the ICU; assisted patient families in times of emotional distress.

• Fundraised and organized for the student-led missions trips to underprivileged countries to provide healthcare, infrastructure, and provisions.
• Raised over $10000.00 to send students from McGill to Peru in 2024.

• Provided technical assistance as needed when implementing policies or procedures developed by the committee.
• Assisted in marketing all events falling under the SUS portfolio, through a broad range of media.
• Coordinated with department heads at McGill for event planning.

• Volunteered during summer months as both a front door greeter and physiotherapy assistant
• Aided in tasks such as wayfinding, mobility classes for surgical recovery patients, assisting in physiotherapy treatments, deliveries throughout the facility.

• Served as a member of the contracting team, specializing in tasks such as residential renovations, commercial renovations, project quotes, framing and sheathing, finish carpentry and other contracting domains.
• Prepare detailed cost estimates based on labor, material, equipment, overhead costs and other related expenses.
• Resolved labor, design and tool issues during construction projects.
• Aid in blueprint review and other documentation prior to commencement of projects for accuracy and completeness.

• Worked with members of the board of directors to aid in setting up fundraisers and organizing events for the club.
• Specialized in logistics pertaining to club events.

• Provide meals to less fortunate members of community through the Woodstock Baptist Church volunteer group.
• Monitored kitchen area and staff to maintain overall safety and establish proper food handling techniques.

• Served as integral committee member, responsible for event planning, representing a designated student body, and coordinating communication between residence councils.

• Worked summer months and academic terms as a shift leader at Dairy Queen, approximately 30-40 hours per week
• Expectations included a high degree of customer service competency, versatile human ressource management
• Responsibilities included distributing orders, direct customer interaction, ensuring the product was made efficiently and in a quality manner.

• Stood on the board of a charitable small business who donated profits to Ronald McDonald House Charities Atlantic
• Responsibilities included product development, manufacturing, business communications, marketing.
• Gained vital competencies in market research, manufacturing education, and human ressource managment

• Worked summer months as a full-time carpenter, and throughout academic terms part-time; Approximately 30 hours per week
• Excelled as the youngest member of the team due to enhanced attention to detail, creativity, and precision in project quotes.
• Gained critical experience in framing and sheathing, interior and exterior finish construction, roofing, and drywall.