Sarah Kawesa
Research
Ottawa,ON
Summary
Seeking position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Collections Officer
Canada Revenue Agency
Ottawa, ON
11.2022 - Current
- Promoting and enforcing compliance with Canada's tax laws for filing, withholding, registering, and debt obligations
- Collecting outstanding debt through the application of progressive and targeted enforcement action.
- Notify debtors of overdue payments and accounts by mail, telephone, or registered mail
- Work with debtors to develop payment arrangements.
- Trace and locate debtors
- Prepare correspondence and reports
Educational Assistant, Early Childhood Education
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
Ottawa, ON
01.2022 - 06.2022
- Provided support to help students with special needs learn and grow.
- Kept classrooms clean, neat and properly sanitized for student health and classroom efficiency.
- Maintained organized, fun and interactive classroom to help children feel safe.
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioral and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Assisted classroom teacher in supervising snack time and indoor and outdoor play.
- Sanitized toys and play equipment each day to maintain safety and cleanliness.
- Provides support in the student’s academic development
- Provides support in a classroom
- Responds to student’s physical, emotion and hygienic needs
- Partners with the classroom teachers to plan and implement an early learning program
- Works with wide variety of students
Clinical Placement Clerk
Algonquin College
Ottawa, Ontario
09.2021 - 12.2021
- Ensured students are tested for Covid-19 prior to clinical placement
- Contacted individual agencies for clinical placements for students
- Assisted the clinical placement coordinator
- Set up students’ accounts in HSPnet database
- Assisted with requesting placement through nation-wide base HSPnet
Nursing Laboratory Simulation Technician
Algonquin College
Ottawa, ON
12.2020 - 04.2021
- Provided support to lab instructors in assigned lab classes
- Supported and assisted with simulations, including both set up and take down of equipment
- Maintained lab equipment including reporting any damaged equipment
- Prepared labs with all necessary equipment and materials for lab classes
- Promoted and conducted safe lab practices
- Helped with proctoring exams
- Attended lab meetings when scheduled
- Was administrator for the Key Performance Indicator surveys, mandated by the Ministry of Colleges and Universities
PHD Candidate in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute , Ottawa, Canada
Ottawa, ON
01.2008 - 08.2013
- Confident verbal communication skills as shown by delivering presentations at universities and subject related conferences Identified potential problems during the conduct of the experiments
- Assisted in developing an action plan specific to or in response to a problem
- Followed up on issues until final resolution
- Managed the lab safety plan/manual and SDS manual
- Experienced in managing research projects from analysis of results to interpreting and preparing reports and presentations Accustomed to working in groups during academic projects Gave support to scientific projects from other laboratories
- Assisted students and researchers in laboratory research
- Capable in study design, statistical analysis of data, and interpreting results Capable of writing scientific papers
Education
Management Accounting
University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
12.2024
Educational Support – Fast Track Intensive
Sheridan College Institute of Technology And Advanced Learning
Oakville, ONPh.D. - Cellular And Molecular Medicine
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON08.2013
Bachelor of Science - Biological Sciences
Brock University
St. Catharines, ON04.2003
Skills
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Problem-solving
- Accounting
- Attention to detail
- Educational assistance
- Student Supervision
- Experienced with Word, Excel, Outlook
- Knowledge of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
- Organization
Additional Information
Publications
- A differential response to newt regeneration extract by C2C12 and primary mammalian muscle cells. Kawesa S, Vanstone J, Tsilfidis C. Skelet Muscle. 2015 Jun 11;5:19
- Distinct roles for Ste20-like kinase SLK in muscle function and regeneration. Storbeck CJ, Al-Zahrani KN, Sriram R, Kawesa S, O'Reilly P, Daniel K, McKay M, Kothary R, Tsilfidis C, Sabourin LA. Skelet Muscle. 2013 Jul 1;3(1):16.
- Hypoxia alters the expression of inhibitor of apoptosis proteins after brain trauma in the mouse. Mikrogianakis A, Shaye RE, Griffin P, Kawesa S, Lockwood J, Gendron NH, Gaboury I, Merali Z, Mackenzie AE, Hutchison JS. J Neurotrauma. 2007 Feb;24(2):338-53.
Timeline
Collections Officer
Canada Revenue Agency
11.2022 - Current
Educational Assistant, Early Childhood Education
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
01.2022 - 06.2022
Clinical Placement Clerk
Algonquin College
09.2021 - 12.2021
Nursing Laboratory Simulation Technician
Algonquin College
12.2020 - 04.2021
PHD Candidate in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute , Ottawa, Canada
01.2008 - 08.2013
Management Accounting
University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies
Educational Support – Fast Track Intensive
Sheridan College Institute of Technology And Advanced Learning
Ph.D. - Cellular And Molecular Medicine
University of Ottawa
Bachelor of Science - Biological Sciences
Brock University
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