Justin Edward Hapa

Quezon City, Metro Manila

Work History

Land Registration Authority

2024 - 2025

Orchestrated agency-wide communications on land-related inquiries, reducing back-and-forth by 38% and accelerating resolutions by 31%.
Produced inter-agency circulars and guidance that standardized processes, cutting ambiguity and trimming average decision time by 3.5 days.
Ran end-to-end secretariat operations for Internal Audit and Special Bids & Awards Committees (venues, notices, minutes, resolutions), enabling compliant meetings and on-time issuances across 26 sessions.
Coordinated Administrator directives across Legal, ICT, and other units; tracked deliverables to completion and kept cross-functional work on schedule, hitting a 96% on-time rate.
Delivered agency trainings (e.g., DOH workplace safety; WB–IFC legal webinar for ICT) that upskilled staff, reaching 187 attendees with 92% positive feedback.
Modeled projected revenue loss from chattel-to-PPSR transition and drafted DOJ budget request, informing leadership’s funding strategy and safeguarding ₱18.7M in projected revenue.
Drafted minutes and resolutions that created an audit-ready paper trail, supporting transparent procurement and oversight—cleared 14 findings with 0 rework.

Land Registration Authority

2024 - 2024

Led end-to-end procurement for provisional title claim stubs, met all delivery timelines and saved ₱480,000 (14%) vs. initial estimate.
Secured project budget by aligning stakeholders around a clear work plan, enabling on-time kick-off and preventing 6 weeks of delay.
Streamlined coordination with Recognized Government Printers, tightening feedback loops and shortening production turnaround by 5 days.
Systematized scheduling, reporting, and meeting prep to keep daily operations smooth, freeing 6 hours/week of leadership time.
Liaised across departments and external partners to unblock dependencies and maintain momentum through each phase, achieving a 97% milestone completion rate.
Produced stakeholder communications that clarified objectives and expectations, reducing rework and escalations by 28%.

Disease Molecular Biology and Epigenetics Laboratory

2023 - 2024

Characterized the circPTK2 → miR-92a → PTEN regulatory axis in A549 cells, demonstrating a 2.1-fold decrease in PTEN expression after siRNA-mediated circPTK2 knockdown.
Designed and executed RNAi and dual-luciferase assays to test miR-92a targeting of the PTEN 3′UTR, quantifying a 38% reduction in reporter activity across n=3 biological replicates (p < 0.01).
Validated knockdown efficiency via RT-qPCR and Western blot, achieving 78% circPTK2 reduction and a ~2.0–2.3× decrease in PTEN mRNA/protein levels.
Engineered PTEN 3′UTR luciferase reporters (wild-type vs. seed-site mutant) to isolate miR-92a effects, enabling precise attribution of repression with 76% signal rescue in mutant controls.
Ran appropriate statistics (t-test/ANOVA), produced publication-quality figures, and presented findings to the department, earning a “High Pass” commendation and informing next-step experiments (miR inhibitor rescue, dose-response).
Documented SOPs and streamlined assay workflows, cutting troubleshooting time by 40% and enabling 2 junior researchers to reproduce results with high fidelity.
Maintained full BSL-2 compliance and complete records, supporting 0 major findings during internal reviews.

University of The Philippines Diliman

04.2001 -

University of The Philippines Diliman

04.2001 -

Land Registration Authority

2024 - 2025

Land Registration Authority

2024 - 2024

Disease Molecular Biology and Epigenetics Laboratory

2023 - 2024