Len Russell

Direct care and oversight of over 1,000 mice across 140 breeding pairs for major labs, ensuring colony health and animal welfare while meeting experimental demands. Facilitate high-quality sample collection, providing tissue, fecal, urine, and cellular specimens for multiple ongoing lab studies, enabling precise downstream analyses. Institute data-tracking improvements for colony records, increasing accuracy in breeding logs and reducing errors in experimental planning. Build and maintain germ-free isolators.

Strengthen team performance by mentoring staff on responsibilities, promoting accountability, and ensuring compliance with safety and facility standards.

Delivered exceptional customer service by managing point-of-sale operations, maintaining sanitation standards, and ensuring first-in, first-out (FIFO) inventory practices.

Supported one of the largest swine reproductive nutrition studies in the U.S. that summer, effectively coordinating research activities for 100+ sows and multiple interconnected experiments. Enhanced data accuracy and study reliability by meticulously collecting and recording key reproductive metrics, including piglet weights, litter sizes, survival rates, and functional teats across a cohort of over 1,000 piglets.

Stocked shelves, assisted customers, cleaned store and employee work spaces, and answered phones.

Answered phones, assisted customers, aided in plant care, ran checkout.

Graduated with a 3.28 GPA.

Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 3.76 GPA.