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Specialties: Consistent laboratory practice and results, quick learning of new techniques, precision and accuracy a priority. Creating new methods and SOPs for staff and student training use once proficient. Interacting with clients from our academic system, academic clients from other campuses and industrial clients.CHN analysis experience of a variety of different types of samples (solids, liquids, semi-solids) and sensitive materials of various elemental levels, including chemical, biological and agricultural components. Instrument: Exeter CE440. Regular instrument maintenance and trouble shooting. Development of new protocols for difficult samples and preparation for the acquisition and qualification of new instruments. Instruments: Micromeritics SmartVac degasser and 3Flex surface area analyzer. Analyzing via physisorption and chemisorption for a variety of analytical information and via a number of different gases or vapors. Optimizing and maintenance of the entire instrument system. Creation of SOPs for a variety of different analysis options.Halide analysis via ion-selective electrode and Schöniger oxidation combustion flask method, along with creation of ISE SOPs.Managing purchases, chemical inventory, off-campus samples and waste disposal. Acting as the Safety Officer for the lab by providing protocols, SOPs and making sure that students using the lab have fulfilled the necessary safety training. Experience with gas cylinder use, nitrogen tank filling/transfer to NMR magnets, along with assisting in helium transfer to magnets. Interim manager of a small university analytical lab for about four months while a new Director was being hired.Mass Spectrometry experience with low- and high-resolution EI, LR/HR CI, LR/HR FAB, and low resolution FD/FI and GC/MS, via Waters Micromass 70‐VSE mass spectrometers; along with regular maintenance of the instruments.Proton, carbon and phosphorus NMR spectrometry experience with running, plotting and some interpretation.

Listed skills include Mass Spectrometry, Chemistry, Nmr, Laboratory, and 43 others.