Heather Herrington
Medical Laboratory Scientist II
Burlington, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeather Herrington is a Medical Laboratory Scientist II with a decade of multidisciplinary lab and technical experience, currently specializing in flow cytometry and immunology at the University of Vermont. She combines advanced clinical laboratory skills—RT-PCR, CAR-T product testing, CD34+ enumeration, and apheresis-related processing—with a background in web and software development, having contributed front-end work to open-source projects and built event systems in React/Redux. Her career spans high-complexity clinical testing environments and hands-on product release criteria for cellular therapies, reflecting strong process-driven problem solving and regulatory awareness. Earlier roles as a veterinarian and comparative pathologist underpin a practiced attention to biology, protocol development, and animal-model work that inform her translational lab perspective. Comfortable translating between bench and code, she brings a rare blend of clinical rigor and practical software craftsmanship to multidisciplinary teams. Based in Burlington, VT, she pairs meticulous laboratory technique with a history of building user-facing tools and automations to improve workflows.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctorate Veterinary Medicine, Doctorate Veterinary Medicine at University of MinnesotaPost-Baccalaureate Certificate - Medical Laboratory Science, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate - Medical Laboratory Science at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health SciencesFull Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Ada Developers Academy
English
Github Skills (3)
html10
css10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
skillcrush/skillcrush-104
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Skillcrush 104 class fun!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:The user, Heather, contributed to the front-end development of the Skillcrush 104 repository. Her work involved creating a new advice page, including HTML for content and linking it within the main index.html file. Additionally, she styled her advice page using CSS. She also added content and implemented basic UI elements.
skillcrush
heatherherrington/ada-capstone
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:95 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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