alison errico resume health physics radiation science

Alison Errico17 Stark Ave—Floor 2—Wakefield, MA—01880—Alison.Errico@gmail.com

Objective: Full-Time Employment in Health Physics or Medical Physics

Education

University of Massachusetts Lowell: September 2008-December 2010Degree: M.S., Radiological Sciences and ProtectionGPA: 4.0

Brown University: September 2002-May 2006Degree: Sc. B., Physics, with honorsGPA: 3.7

Employment

Temporary Jr Health Physics Technician, Millstone Power Station: March-April 2011Performed contamination and radiation surveys, monitored equipment and personnelleaving contaminated areas, provided HP support to various outage jobs.

Executive Assistant, NEWCOM: April 2007-May 2008

Text Encoder, Brown University Library: August 2005-August 2006Learned to markup text in XML, deciphered 18th century documents.

Laboratory Assistant, Brown Physics Department: September-December 2004

Research

Master’s project with Dr. David Medich: Fall 2010Topic: MCNP Analysis of Shielding Materials for Brachytherapy Sources

Thesis preparation with Prof. Robert Pelcovits: Fall 2005-May 2006Topic: Liquid Crystals.

Thesis preparation with Prof. Brad Marston: Summer 2005Topic: Many-Body Quantum Theory.

Research Assistant to Prof. Richard Gaitskell: Summer 2003 and Summer 2004Radiation Spectroscopy for Cryogenic Dark Matter Search, basic Monte Carlosimulations, web design.

Awards

Kenneth W. Skrable Technical Excellence Award, May 2009

Smiley Prize for Contributions to the Astronomy Program, May 2006

Undergraduate Teaching & Research Assistantship, Summer 2004

Valedictorian, Oliver Ames High School, June 2002

Society Memberships

Health Physics Society

American Association of Physicists in Medicine

SkillsMacintosh & PC interfaces, Microsoft Office (expert-level Word & Excel; PowerPoint;Outlook), MCNP, MATLAB, Mathematica, Mathcad, basic Java, some XML, someHTML.