Joel Nolte Email & Phone Number

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Corrective actions, root cause analysis, continuous improvement.
• Ethics and data integrity, controlled document management, external and internal audits.
• Managing certifications and scopes of accreditation for ISO 17025, NELAC, DoD/DOE QSM, others.
• Training and technical assistance, mentoring for newer analysts.
• Creating and strengthening relationships, opening space to possibility, effecting positive change.

Fort Collins, Colorado

• In addition to providing leadership, as a Scientist I improved quality and efficiency by optimizing methods and procedures. I performed statistical analyses of data, and diagnosed problems with analytical.
• Reduced prep time, cut sample shipping and waste disposal costs, and eliminated extraction glassware by micro-scaling the extraction of TEPH water samples (extracting inside the sampling container).
• Improved method ruggedness, limit of detection, accuracy, and precision by implementing a derivatization prep procedure to replace the direct injection of glycol water samples.
• Optimized peak separation vs run time for anions analysis by column selection and mobile phase gradient.Quality Control:
• Ensured high standards of quality, reviewing raw data and recovery trends in LIMS and CAPA reports from OOS events. Verified root cause identification and corrective action.
• Reviewed and revised SOPs annually, and authored new SOPs as needed.

Fort Collins, Colorado

• During this pivotal role in my career, I provided operational and technical direction to 12–14 analysts and technicians, including training, completion of annual performance reviews, and offering ongoing feedback to.
• Mentored and trained new analysts on topics like ethics and data integrity, instrument maintenance, multi-point calibration, sample preparation, and use of instrument control software.
• Allocated department resources as necessary to address surges in workflow.
• Planned department budgets and capital purchases.
• Improved throughput and efficiency through hardware and software upgrades, implementing a client/server enterprise-wide chromatography data system, an LC/MS/MS, and a gel permeation (size exclusion).
• Enhanced analytical sensitivity to achieve client specifications by optimizing conditions for analysis of methanol.

Fort Collins, Colorado

• This role sharpened my technical skills. I spent the bulk of my time performing analyses on a wide variety of sample matrices (water, soil, biota), and honing my knowledge of different instrumental technologies.Areas.
• Volatile and semi-volatile organics by GC/MS; volatile aromatic organics by GC/PID/FID.
• Polychlorinated biphenyls, organochlorine pesticides, and phenoxy acid herbicides by GC/ECD.
• Organophosphorus pesticides by GC/FPD.
• Gasoline, diesel, and other fuels profiles, methanol, and glycols by GC/FID.
• Explosives by HPLC/UV.

Little Rock, Arkansas

This was my first position after college, and it got my feet wet in 'real world' analytical chemistry. I extracted samples for organics instrument groups, and also analyzed volatile and semi-volatile organics by GC/MS.