Theresa Simon

• From startup to servicing over 400 repeat customers
• Workshop setup, equipment purchases, staff training, networking in industry, marketing, sourcing and imports
• Control module (ECU, TCU, BCM, instrument cluster, etc.) and key testing, replacement, coding, and repair
• Vehicle diagnostics and fault finding
• Board-level repairs, including precision soldering (through-hole and surface-mount, leaded and lead-free), transmission control unit repairs, ceramic PCB repairs, small BGA reballing
• Networking and referral throughout the automotive industry in South Africa; Marketing content creation, optimisation, and targeting; Global sourcing, importing, and exchange facilitation for suppliers and customers

• Researched, purchased, and implemented new tech in auto electronics
• Control module repair, replacement, and coding
• Procurement - liaison with suppliers, supply chain management, imports
• Liaison with owners on company performance, business decisions, and strategies for improvement
• Staff management and training (technical & reception)

2013 - 2016 Tissue Laboratory 2011 - 2012 Evidence Recovery Laboratory

• Team of three Tissue Analysts servicing South Africa and beyond
• Receiving human tissues for evidence recovery (bone, teeth, tissue, foetal matter, reference samples)
• Taking appropriate samples for DNA Isolation, barcoding and registration
• DNA isolation using QIAmp®️ DNA MICRO Kit and Prepfiler Automate Express ™
• Mentoring new members
• Preserving chain of custody, compiling case dockets, report writing
• Using luminol, brentamine and hemastix to identify biological evidence
• Report writing, returning evidence to station
• Samples forwarded to isolations, barcoded and registered
• Liaison with investigating officers

• Programming of electronic control units
• Varied soldering (SMD and THT), harness assembly
• Inventory control
• Office admin duties: bookkeeping, website and business card design, vinyl label printing and cutting

• Studentship with Malaria research group
• Culturing of Plasmodium falciparum - preparing culture medium, synchronization of cultures, determining parasitaemia
• RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, gel electrophoresis, real-time PCR
• Practical application of laboratory health and safety

• Tracking, filing and maintenance of patient records
• Transcribed and edited physician reports from dictation
• Created MS Access database for overseas patient register