SUMMARY:

• Provides for rapid new skill acquisition.
• Enhances versatility.
• Facilitates assisting coworkers.
• Advanced electronics knowledge.
• Enhances instrument maintenance.
• Provides substantial cost savings.
• Extensive analytical chemistry experience.
• Liquid and Ion Chromatography.
• Gas Chromatography.
• Mass Spectrometry and NMR.
• FTIR, AA, and UV/Vis spectroscopy.
• Expert grasp of information technologies.
• Experienced writing publications and reports.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Field Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Repaired and maintained laboratory equipment.
• Calibrated instruments such as balances and measurement devices.
• Performed troubleshooting and maintenance of analytical instruments including GC and UPLC.
• Supported laboratory information systems including Waters Empower and Agilent Chemstation.
• Trained new employees.
• Provided customer service.
• Responded to customer concerns.
• Provided sales information to customers on the services provided by PCS.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

Analytical Chemist

Responsibilities:

• Applied scientific principles and practices to chemical analyses for OSHA regulatory purposes.
• Analyzed air samples on sorbent media using OSHA and EPA sampling and analytical methods.
• Analyzed bulk substances of unknown composition in solid, liquid and gas phases.
• Created new analytical methods for substances when pre - existing procedures were not available.
• Complied with and proposed improvements to the quality system and laboratory procedures.
• Operated instruments including GC- FID, GC-ECD, GC-NPD, GC-MS; HPLCUV/Vis, and LC/IC.
• Utilized Waters Empower, Agilent Chemstation, and Dionex Chromelion for data analysis.
• Maintained analytical instruments.
• Performed basic maintenance such as replacement of consumables and routine cleaning.
• Performed advanced maintenance such as refurbishing of instruments and repair of circuit boards.
• Assisted Materials Failure Investigation Team and authored of several final reports. Notable examples are:
• An incident where hydrogen gas accumulation caused a tank filled with hydrochloric acid to explode. A micro -scale laboratory test under carefully controlled conditions provided data allowing me to calculate that explosive concentrations of hydrogen could accumulate in less than 18 minutes.
• An incident where an explosion occurred while compressing an experimental fuel gas into a storage tank. Examination of their equipment and GC-DID analysis of its products under strict safety protocols provided sufficient data to definitively establish that the gas was a stoichiometric mixture of hydrogen and oxygen, hazardous to compress, and subject to hydrogen safety regulations.
• Co-authored “Exposure of unsuspecting workers to deadly atmospheres in below-ground confined spaces and investigation of related whole-air sample composition using adsorption gas chromatography”.
• Performed miscellaneous projects and duties.
• Trained new employees in the quality system, as well as laboratory and analytical procedures.
• Provided technical support for laboratory information systems to other analysts.
• Testified in court in support of OSHA investigations.

Confidential, Kent, OH

Graduate Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Instructed classes for undergraduate physics.
• Graded student homework.
• Held office hours and assisted students with learning the course material.

Confidential, Medina, OH

QC Lab Technician

Responsibilities:

• Performed testing on labels and adhesives to ensure compliance with Six Sigma guidelines.
• Analyzed results and performed calculations such as ANOVA using Minitab.
• Analyzed competitors’ products using FTIR, GC, and Instron instruments.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Student Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Designed a remote data telemetry system.
• Utilized T1 and Frame relay links to communicate with server in DMZ.
• Autonomously collected data from three remote monitoring stations. Stations reported;
• Total Organic Carbon and Dissolved Organic Carbon by wet oxidation.
• Total Organic Carbon and Dissolved Organic Carbon by IR combustion analysis.
• Dissolved ions such as Chlorine, Bromine, and Iodine by Ion Chromatography.
• Utilized Campbell Loggernet server running in DMZ.
• Stored data in an Oracle database.
• Created a real time QC model to semi-autonomously check real-time data.
• Implemented with Oracle database rules.
• Created empirical rules derived from interviews with experienced staff and statistical modeling.
• Published “Real Time Data Forecasting Weekly Report”.
• Distributed in PDF via email.
• Used linked MS Publisher and Excel documents to facilitate rapid publishing.
• Utilized database queries in Excel to automatically retrieve data.
• Linked Excel and Publisher templates for fast and accurate document publishing.
• Integrated expert analysis of the data by experienced staff members.
• Completed entire publishing process including editing in less than 3 hours.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Student Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented instrumentation for nondestructive geophysical testing.
• Maintained and repaired geophysical testing equipment.
• Operated geophysical testing instruments including ground penetrating radar, seismographs and magnetometers.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Lab Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Performed chemical analyses of solvents, etchants and other solutions in a manufacturing environment.
• Utilized AA, FTIR, and UV/Vis spectroscopy, titrations, colorimetry and other methods.
• Maintained process solution baths as per established guidelines based on results of laboratory analyses.
• Diagnosed and corrected problems and defects in the manufacturing processes based on results of analyses.