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Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Asheville, Nc

Gained management and supervisory experience in a forensic drug testing/clinical medication monitoring laboratory.▪ Responsible for gathering and reporting all Quality Control data on a daily basis, monitoring trends and reacting to any out-of-spec data as needed.▪ Organized, prepared, and maintained a vast library of calibrator, QC, and internal standard solutions. The accuracy and precision of all quantitative data reported from the lab depended on these solutions.▪ Responsible for reporting, responding to, and investigating and correcting any discrepancies of, all Proficiency Testing Surveys from CAP and other accreditation agencies.

Asheville, Nc

Gained management and supervisory experience in a forensic drug testing/clinical medication monitoring laboratory.▪ Responsible for supervising all Lab Analysts working 2nd Shift.▪ Responsible for making sure all of the LC/MS/MS and GC/MS instrumentation was loaded, maintenanced, and in proper working order so that quality data were collected through the night.▪ Continued with all of the responsibilities of the Lab Analyst position (see below).

Asheville, Nc

Gained experience as an analytical chemist in a forensic drug testing/clinical medication monitoring laboratory.▪ Ensured that all sample data was collected, processed, analyzed, and reported correctly.▪ Utilized LIMS systems for the organization of patient and donor confidential information and data.▪ Operated, maintained, and troubleshooted LC/MS/MS and GC/MS instrumentation.▪ Extracted batches of samples from various media for quantitative analysis.▪ Organized, prepared, and maintained a vast library of calibrator, control, and internal standard solutions.▪ Acted as the Safety Officer for the laboratory.

Brevard, Nc

Gained experience as a chemist in a contract research setting.▪ Executed multi-step syntheses on a variety of target molecules, some as large as 10 kg.▪ Tested and analyzed drugs and drug analogs with LC/MS, GC/MS, HPLC, and NMR instrumentation.▪ Was laid off in Dec. 2014 when our main client unexpectedly canceled the long-term contract of the project on which I was hired to work.

Research Triangle Park, Nc

Gained experience as an analytical chemist in the Analytical Chemistry division within RTI.▪ Executed Quality Control testing for projects for the National Institute on Drug Abuse.▪ Conducted extractions and tested the resulting samples for quantitative drug content with GC/MS and HPLC instrumentation.▪ Extensive experience handling, sampling, testing, and analyzing illicit drugs and pharmaceutical drugs in a cGMP/GLP environment.

Research Triangle Park, Nc

Gained experience as a chemist executing projects for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Cancer Institute, and private commercial contracts within RTI.▪ Authored formal research proposals to carry out multi-step syntheses, personally taking molecules from structure-on-paper to final product.▪ Tested and analyzed samples for illicit drugs, pharmaceutical drugs, drug metabolites, and drug analogs with GC/MS, HPLC, and NMR instrumentation.

Durham, Nc

Gained experience as a chemist with Inspire’s Research & Preclinical Development group. Contributed to the discovery and optimization of lead compounds in various therapeutic areas. Supported and collaborated with diverse project teams.▪ Gained extensive experience with nucleotide and Rho kinase inhibitor chemistry.▪ Prepared, tested, and analyzed samples for possible new drugs with LC/MS, GC, HPLC, and NMR instrumentation.

M.S., Chemistry

B.S., Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Alpha Lambda Delta, Phi Beta Kappa Graduated magna cum laude