Nguyễn Thanh Duy

I am recent graduated student who have just graduated from University of San Francisco (USF). I have recently come back Vietnam for three months. My major at USF was Biology and, in addition, I also took two minors: Chemistry and Asian Pacific American Studies, so I have a strong combination background of both science (biology and chemistry) and social science (sociology - Asian Studies). Other than that, during the time I was in the USA, I had worked as a part time employee at an international consultation company (VN) and a nail salon shop (US), so even I am a “fresh” and recent graduated student, I still possess for me enough working experiences, particularly in customer services aspect. Moreover, I have successfully applied to internships and worked with several expert Professors in Biomedical field at top US university: Stanford University and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Based on those information, I am seeking for a position which can help me to share my knowledge on applying to study or to immigrate to the US or to other developed countries. I want to bring my “foreign” experiences to help my future customers so that they can get higher chance to live and learn in a developed countries like US.

SOFT SKILLS

• Fluency in Vietnamese and English.
• Fluency in using new technological hardware and software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point for inputting and editing data) and Google Office in Window and Mac OS Operation.
• Fluency in using new online platforms for duties such as Zoom, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, Hangout Meets...
• Always be on time and self-responsible.
• Can work under heavy pressure and keep concentration as well as accuracy in long period working time.
• Work independently as well as in group.
• Quickly learning new things through training and quickly catching up new tasks duties.
• Quickly sorting, searching and locating materials and documents.
• Can deal with different people in different cultures and reduce people's moods.
• Can play musical instruments.

LAB TECHNIQUES

• Microbiology: agarose and media preparation, growth, and sterile techniques, microscope morphology.
• Cells/tissuses culture: mammalian cell culture (growing, and passing), design cell-based assays, and perform with the IncuCyte apparatus, fluorescence analysis (Flow Cytometry).
• Genetic engineering: DNA extraction, spectrophotometer, PCR, agarose and SDS-PAGE gel electrophoresis, Western Blot, Plasmid and recombinat DNA manipulation, Restriction mapping.
• Bioinformatic: sequence alignment, phylogeny construction.
• Hematology: blood cells staning, and morphology.
• Animals handling: mouse and rat caring, feeding, handling, injecting, and atomizing.
• Chemistry: Thin layer chromatography.

WORKING EXPERIENCES

Advisor of Non-immigration US Visa  (January 2018 – now)

The ACA International Immigrant Consultation Company – 7th Floor, 161 Vo Van Tan St., District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Advising, finding suitable colleges, and filling-in applications for Vietnamese students who want to study in US.
• Supporting and preparing Vietnamese students in F1 visa interview.
• Supporting Vietnamese students for post steps after get visa in US such as: setting up airport pick up, renting houses, opening bank account, opening phone line, checking in at US college.
• Supporting Vietnamese students with transferring schools within US.
• Advising, supporting, filling-in applications, and preparing for customers who are going to go to the travelling interview.

Receptionist (Front Desk)  (January – December, 2016)

Nail Tech Shop, 4578 Morse Center Rd., Columbus, OH 43329

• Answering phone calls from customers.
• Scheduling and cancel appointments or request particular technicians for customers.
• Making payments for customers.
• Sorting, inputting and extracting business data report each day and each month.
• Working with technical machines and software such as: paying machine, Word, and Excel.
• Dealing with all kind of customers from different cultures.
• Reducing customers’ mood and making them feel better.
• Setting up, fixing, and resolving any technical problem from any device in the nails shop.

LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Co-founder, leader and administrate English club  (September, 2011 – December, 2012)

Tan Thong Catholic Church, Cu Chi District, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam

• Co-founder with the Pastor of the English club at Tan Thong Catholic Church.
• Encourage catholic young people to learn and practice English.
• Prepare materials and agendas for each meeting.

ACADEMIC RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

Research Member  (January 2019 - now)

Minh V. Nguyen, M.S (PI) Microbiology Laboratory – Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Binh Duong Province Campus, Vietnam

• New project: supplemental identification useful bacteria (for agricultural and medical) by sequencing method on 16S rRNA.
• Examine the resistance ability of bacteria by microbiology technique, identification bacteria based on biochemical method and identified by sequencing method.
• Aim to construct a map and/or a phylogeny of useful bacteria in Vietnam.
• Research focus: antifungal and antibacterial activities of endophytic bacteria from Piper betle L., Eclipta prostrata L.,, Cassia alata L. and other regional plants.
• Analysing and interpreting experimental results from the lab with mainly Minh Van Nguyen M.S (PI) and Linh Nhat Duong M.S and other lab members.
• Responsibility for writing and editing English versions for those research reports.
• Helping other lab members in collecting, reading, and interperting important information from academic journals which are associated with the main project.

Research Assistant   (October, 2018 – May, 2019)

Dr. Hopf (PI) Laboratory - UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences – University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94158

• Research focus: developing pre-clinical rodent models for the compulsive drug use that characterizes drug addiction, reviewing studies that have attempted to model compulsive aspects of alcohol and cocaine intake in rodents, and trying to recapitulate compulsive aspects of human addiction.
• Genotyping: perform molecular biology tasks (DNA extraction, PCR, agarose gel electrophoresis) with “tail sample” for identifying the genotype of infant mice and rats.
• Preparing according alcohol, and drug solutions and water for animal intake experiments.
• Giving, watching, and recording the amount intaken (normal condition and injected condition) by the rats and mice in determined period time and update into daily sheet.
• Handling and weighing rats and mice every two weeks, and keeping eyes on animals to make sure they are maintained and lived in normal condition with no abnormal appearance.

Laboratory Assistant   (August – December, 2017)

Dr. Spencer (PI) Laboratory - Harney Science Center – University of San Francisco, CA, 94117

• Research focus: focusing on human cytomegalovirus (HCMV).Projects are centered around the numerous gene products HCMV encodes to modulate the host immune system, and one of these gene products is a homolog of cellular interleukin-10.

• Washing glassware, sterilizing glassware in autoclave.

• Filling ethanol to the carboys, and filling water to the incubator water pan, water bath, and the carboys.
• Restocking pipetes, pipete tips, and micro-tubes.
• Cleaning the water bath, and laboratory fume hood.
• General cleaning and organizing stuff in the laboratory to ensure the smooth running of the laboratory.
• Ensure researchers have clean and appropriate tools, equipments and materials needed to conduct experiments.

Research Assistant   (September, 2012 – August, 2015) 

Dr. Thuy H. A. Le (PI) Molecular Biology Laboratory – Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Binh Duong Province Campus, Vietnam

• Conducted basic experiments for undergraduate thesis (got a grade 9.0 out of 10.0) in a topic Familial Hypercholesterolemia caused by LDLR and ApoB - 100 genes under instruction of Associate Professor Thuy Huyen Ai Le, Ph.D., (2014 – 2015).
• Cleaning and sterilizing glassware, filling ethanol and water to the carboys, and restocking pipetes, pipete tips, and micro-tubes.
• Assisting Professors, Ph.D. researchers and graduate students with their research projects by preparing tools and equipments before conducting the experiments and inputing data and running the statistic software from the data experiments.
• Learned basic and specific techniques in Molecular Biology research: extract DNA, PCR, agarose gel electrophoresis and other hybridization techniques.

PUBLICATION

• Vietnamese version (with English abstract): Duong N. L., Nguyen T. P., Nguyen. D. T. L., Tran T. A. N., Nguyen. T. D., Nguyen V. M. (2019). Evaluating the potential antibacterial activities of extracts from the leaves of Psidium guajava L., Science Journal of Ho Chi Minh City Open University, 14(4), pp. 24 – 32.
• Scopus Journal (in progress): Isolation endophytic bacteria from Piper betle L. and evaluation antifungal and antibacterial activities.
• Scopus Journal (in progress): Investigation antibacterial and antifungal activities of endophytic bacteria from Eclipta prostrata L.
    
CONFERENCES

• Duong N. L., Pham T. N. H., Tran T. A. N., Nguyen. T. D., Nguyen V. M., Isolation and investigation antifungal and antibacterial activities of endophytic bacteria in Cassia alata L., The International Conference on Biotechnology Ho Chi Minh City Open University 2019: “Research and Application in Biotechnology”, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2019.
• Duong N. L., Nguyen T. M. T., Tran T. A. N., Nguyen. T. D., Nguyen V. M., Investigation antibacterial and antifungal activities of endophytic bacteria from Eclipta prostrata L., The International Conference on Biotechnology Ho Chi Minh City Open University 2019: “Research and Application in Biotechnology”, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2019.
• Duong N. L., Le T. T. A., Tran T. A. N., Nguyen. T. D., Nguyen V. M., Isolation endophytic bacteria from Piper betle L. And evaluation antifungal and antibacterial activities., The International Conference on Biotechnology Ho Chi Minh City Open University 2019: “Research and Application in Biotechnology”, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2019.

AWARD AND CERTIFICATE

• Participating the Conference “The International Conference on Biotechnology Ho Chi Minh City Open University 2019: “Research and Application in Biotechnology”, July 2019.
• Good performence on undergraduate thesis (got a grade 9.0 out of 10.0) in a topic Familial Hypercholesterolemia caused by LDLR and ApoB - 100 genes under instruction of Associate Professor Thuy Huyen Ai Le, Ph.D., 2014 – 2015.

MEDICAL EXPERIENCES

Physician Assistant  (January 2018 – March, 2019)

Stanford Hospital – Radiology Department - 300 Pasteur Dr., Stanford, CA, 94350

• Assisting Dr. Peter Poullous (MD) who is a disabled radiologist at Stanford University Medical Center with daily tasks such as helping him to/from his vehicle, answering phones, communicating with the medical staffs, among other duties.
• Being present at film review and conferences, and observe image acquisition, interpretation, consultation and reporting.
• Interact with doctors, nurses, technologists, and support staffs.
• May, at times, interact with patients, although this is not very common.

Urgent Care Patient Ambassador   (July, 2017 – December, 2017)

San Francisco General Hospital – Urgent Care Department – Building 80, 995 Potrero Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94110

• Shadowing, helping and observing physicians in treatment rooms.
• Assist receptionists and other staffs in non-clinical duties by greeting, helping, and showing direction for patients, and asking patients to fill out survey form when leaving.
• Carry only authorized experimental samples (blood, or urine) from Urgent Care Department to the Hospital’s Laboratory.

Basic Life Support course training  (May, 2017)

One Heart/ Un – Corazón, San Francisco, CA

• Can provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in emergency situations.

Medical Assistant. (January – September, 2015)

Notre Dame Des Mission Convent, Cu Chi District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Helping physicians in treatment rooms for low-income patients, and homeless by organizing the order of patients before meeting physicians and writing down the diagnoses and medications prescriptions.
• Helping pharmacists to distribute medications for low-income patients, and homeless.

EDUCATION

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94117                                                    December, 2019

B.S., Biology, Major: Biology – Molecular Biology Emphasis, Minors: Chemistry, Asian Pacific American Studies 

Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam                                          September, 2015

B.S., Biotechnology, Major: Biotechnology – Micro – Organic Biotechnology Emphasis