Specialties: High resolution and Accurate mass measurement, Structure elucidation, Orbitraps, FTMS, QTOF, Triple Quadrupole, Magnetic Sectors, LC/MS/MS, GC/MS, APCI, ESI, EI/CI, MALDI TOF; Automated lipid extraction, lipid assay development, MS data systems, data processing, MS library searches, metabolomics and lipidomics software, component elucidationAnalytical chemist with a wide range of experience including chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry. Expertise with both qualitative (structure elucidation, accurate mass) and quantitative (GC/MS, LC/MS/MS, HR MS and MSn) methods. Developed software tools to relate exact mass MS/MS spectra with structures of drugs, lipids and metabolites. Experience with developing GC and UHPLC separations of lipids, surfactants, biomarkers from complex matrices (detergents, environmental samples) and biological matrices (plasma, tissue, urine). Developed LC/MRM and MS/MS assays to quantitatively profile sphingolipids in humans at risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity.Product manager for LipidSearch software 2014-2019 from MKI and Thermo Fisher Scientific. Drove development of LipidSearch 4.x using voice of customer and validated software using customer data sets and expert knowledge of lipid fragmentation. Provided VOC for the development of next generation software and hosted LipidSearch 5.0 team meetings with developers from MKI (Tokyo, JP), lipidomics applications experts from Thermo Fisher Scientific and the University of Melbourne.Author of scientific papers, white papers, technical notes and presentations for high resolution mass spectrometry applied to metabolomics and lipidomics.
Listed skills include Mass Spectrometry, Hplc, Metabolomics, Lipidomics, and 3 others.