Sonja Zimmer

Self employed Handlettering Artist and Designer. Handlettering, illustrations and design on chalkboards, signs, windows and more for gastronomy, advertising, weddings and others. Also collecting experience with digital lettering and illustration and graphics design.

Hand lettering and design of chalkboards and other supports for presentation and marketing of the products at Riffraff cinema bar and bistro and Houdini cinema bar (Zurich-based gastronomy businesses of Neugass Kino AG). Part-time/on request.

Prep. tasks for the laboratory accreditation through the SAS ("Schweiz. Akkreditierungsstelle") according to ISO15189 of the Oncology Laboratory, especially MRD (Minimal Residual Disease) department, within the "Zentrum für Pädiatrische Labormedizin" of the "Kinderspital Zürich", such as rewriting of Quality Documents, migration to a new Quality Management System and other. Ensuring ongoing quality management tasks and compliance to new processes. Continuing support in digitization of the patient archive.

Bartender and Waitress at Bar Sacchi close to Lochergut Zürich. Bar with Italian atmosphere, specialized in cocktails and natural wines.

Support in digitizing the patient archive of the Kinderspital Zürich's oncology lab.

Supporting the production of antibodies by transient expression in CHO cells. Responsible for performing and documentation of molecular biology tasks for cloning of antibody expression plasmids, maintenance and transfection of CHO cell culture, supporting team in DNA amplification by “giga-preps”, as well as general maintenance of lab infrastructure and other tasks. 80-100%

Waitress in the Riffraff cinema bistro (preparing and serving mainly coffee, small food items and non-alcoholic or simple alcoholic drink) including food preparation in the kitchen and Riffraff cinema bar (preparing and serving mainly cocktails and a large choice of alcoholic drinks). Independent opening and closing of the venues, daily accounting. Also involved in cinema ticket sales. Already partly involved in the design of chalkboards etc. (see above). Approx. 60%

Organization and conduct of clinical studies, monitoring and reporting, contact with authorities, project planning and surveillance. Responsibility over own projects, quality control and medical writing, as well as different tasks, in various other Life Science projects, i.e. support of Administration and Finance department, Medical Translations, Marketing and Communications, as well as Regulatory Affairs and Quality departments, especially in a pharmacovigilance project. 80-100%

Administration and finance for Clinical Research, Regulatory Affairs and Quality departments. General, scientific and medical support in Marketing and Communications and Medical Translations department.

Waitress, 60-­100%

Waitress for banquets and seminars, irregular basis

Laboratory work for the Master Thesis, 100%

Waitress, 40-­100%, including “Chef de Bar” function: responsibility over up to 4 waiters, assignment of tasks, daily accounting

Laboratory work during a 6 week internship for the Bachelor studies, 100%

Waitress, 20-­40%, including “Chef de Bar” function: responsibility over up to 3 waiters, assignment of tasks, daily accounting

Waitress in restaurant and for banquets, 40-­80%

Master Thesis at the Institute of Medical Molecular Genetics: “Gene therapeutic approach using mutation-­‐adapted small nuclear RNA to treat a splice defect in a mouse model of autosomal dominant optic atrophy”

Including 6 week research internship at the Institute of Physiology with written report : “Comparison of function and expression, using the oocyte expression system, of two system N amino acid transporters human SNAT3 and SNAT5 of the blood-­‐ brain barrier”

Biology, Geography and Mathematics in English language. International Baccalaureate (IB) degree in parallel to classic Swiss Matura. Matura major subject: English. Higher level subjects IB: German, English and Biology. LANGUAGES