Over the last four and a half years at AMRI I have become a deft and versatile medicinal synthetic organic chemist. My skills in the hood have to placed me as one of the top performers in the company over the past couple of years, but deft hands in a wet chemistry environment can only get a person so far. To be able to make the novel compounds assigned, I have to have a large knowledge base in organic chemistry as well as be able to use the chemical search engines provided to develop workable routes for these new compounds. I also have to know what analytical methods to use, when and how to interpret the data (I.e. : LCMS,GC/MS,HPLC,NMR,TLC). Last but definitely not least I have to know how to purify these compounds in a way that recovers the purest material in the greatest yield possible. I have had to master all of these skills over the last couple of years to be able to be considered one of the top chemists. I have also become the person who people go to when the instruments malfunction, usually due to clogging. In most cases I am able fix these systems and prevent a work order from being created causing the system to be down for multiple days. Safety is a big concern in chemistry which is why I volunteered to be a 5S safety auditor of our labs which in turn has made me quite familiar with safety protocols.
Listed skills include Nmr Interpretation, Lcms Interpretation, Synthetic Route Development, Wet Chemistry Lab Skills, and 24 others.