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Brevard, Nc, Us

Brevard, North Carolina, United States

Gainesville, Florida Area

· Team management in a fast-paced environment ensuring safe and efficient preparation, handling, and delivery of hazardous and non-hazardous materials· Execute managerial decisions to solve complex issues ensuring time-sensitive and cost-efficient needs are met· Consistently ensure accurate and timely execution of all day to day activities through the oversight and delegation of tasks to my team· Work closely with suppliers and operations managers to increase productivity and decrease costs· Effectively communicate needs with supervisors and worked to better operations company wide· Ability to handle the pressures that arise from having to meet deadlines · Fill the job duties of interviewer and hire new employees for the company· Maintain an ongoing record for all in-house equipment and ensure all proper maintenance and upkeep is performed · Ensure a clean and safe work environment is maintained to meet OSHA and EPA industry standards · Accurately and diligently review all incoming materials for quality assurance purposes · Manage time-sheets and scheduling needs of employees· Handle and/or report all issues involving damaged materials, improper delivery, and missing inventory

• Multi-step organic synthesis• Air-free techniques • Cold temperature reactions • Extensive purification experience: column chromatography, preparative TLC, crystallization, recrystallization, fractionation, distillation, filtration, liquid-liquid extraction, trituration• Run and analyzed chiral/non-chiral HPLC, GC, LCMS, and PXRD• Spectroscopy techniques: NMR (1H, 13C, Variable Temperature, 2-D: COSY, NOESY, TOCSY, HSQC, HMBC), IR• Utilization of thermochemical calculations • Drying of laboratory solvents through management and upkeep of tetrahydrofuran, diethyl ether, and toluene solvent stills

- Design and management of Organic Chemistry Laboratory teaching schedule involving between 20 and 30 TAs a semester- Delegated TA proctoring and grading responsibilities for course professors - Settled conflicts involving teaching assistants, professors, and/or students - Helped design and review student assignments and exams- Filled in as instructor of record to give weekly TA meetings when needed

Ph.D, Organic Chemistry

Dissertation Title: “Enantioselective Synthesis of Drug-like Molecules via Axially-Chiral Enolates”

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru)