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Sterling, Kansas, United States

Manages time effectively and keeps accurate records.Experience with trouble-shooting stability issue with current and past production blends.Re-formulates current products to meet customers’ needs and increase product stability.Assists production in determining root cause when a quality or production issue has occurred and take corrective action for quality issues.Assist Quality Control when shorthanded or issues arise.Experience with HPLC, Flash point, basic chemical testing, and FTIR-IR.Set-up and test new methods for the laboratory.

Williston, North Dakota, United States

Re-formulated current products to meet the needs of various customers.Troubleshoot problems in customer’s product and worked with production team to correct.Laboratory background in analytical equipment with working knowledge in Compressive Strength with high temperature and pressure, Free water, Fluid loss test, Thickening Time, Rheology, Ultrasonic Compression Test, Density, and water testing.

Williston, North Dakota

Provide technical service to various customers on knowledge of products.Used various techniques to solve problems in the field for the oil field such as unknown solids, unknown emulsions, and corroded pipes.Trained field personnel in field testing. Collected and performed testing in field for both routine work, proposal project and problem solving for a well including emulsions, solids, etc.Ordered all needed laboratory supplies for the laboratory and the oil field technicians.Performed complete water testing by testing for metals on ICP, chloride concentration by titration, sulfate measurement by spectrophotometer, organic extraction for oil and grease, bacteria studies and solids analysis.Set-up and tested new methods from scratch for the laboratory.

Bossier City, Louisiana, United States

Oversaw the Soil department.Performed quality control by testing: gradation of aggregates, pH, hydrometer and moisture curve of soils, resistivity and compression of concrete, and content, density, and rotation viscosity of asphalt.Created database to track concrete cores for Federal projects.Supervised concrete cores sampling for Independent Assessment.

Shreveport, Louisiana Area

Tutor all levels of math and science. Do test prep for ACT and other standardized tests

Shreveport, Louisiana

Perform complete water testing by testing for metals on ICP, organic extraction for oil and grease analysis, bacteria studies and solid analysis. Perform quality control testing for oil field blends. Tests performed on oil field blends includes such tests as: color, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), density, flash point and freeze point, foam tests, and metal content by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP). Set-up and test for methods for water tests for the laboratory. Problem solved unknown solids, emulsions and other problems in wells by solids testing and emulsions tests with various products. Help Omni Specialty Packaging laboratory by filling in and advising as needed. Organize sample flow and purchase items needed to maintain the laboratory. Train new laboratory personal. Quality control chemist for Oil laboratory:Performed quality control testing for both oil blends. In addition, performed blend formulation for both oil as well as doctored oil blends to correct formula. Tests performed on oil samples and blends includes such tests as: viscosity, color, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), density, water content by Karl Fisher, flash point (both open and closed cup) and metal content by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP). Set-up and tested for methods for Noack evaporation.

Baking and decorating cakes and cupcake, cookies, petit fours, king cakes, breads and other baked items.

Bossier City

Planning and executing dessert menus for the buffet, coffee shop, steakhouse and banquets. Managed the bakery and assist run buffet line. Decorate cakes including wedding and grooms cakes. On the dessert committee that examined desserts and breads purchased at different properties. Was an “And some employee” for doing duties above my job.

Producing cakes, pies, cheesecake. During the last several months, I produced all the bread and breakfast for morning delivery.

Analyze evidence for DNA evidence for further DNA analysis.

Create and perform behavioral tests, including locomotion, anxiety models, and learning models, on rats treated with cocaine and methamphetamine. Tested both stress and sex hormones during varies days of development by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) and Radioactivity Immunosorbent assay. Implanted jugular catheters and trained rats to self-administrator either cocaine or methamphetamine.

Preformed cell cultures from both primary and secondary cultures. Treated celled with various agents and preformed ELISA for apoptosis and cell death.

Isolated DNA from cells and tested for polymorphism by cleaving the DNA and running on agarose gels. Test rats on various behavior tests after stress and drug treatments. Tests included locomotor activity, elevated plus maze and self-administration of alcohol.

B.S., Biology And Chemistry

Certificate In Le Cordon Bleu Patisserie And Baking, Pastry

Graduate Studies, Pharmacology

Neuropharmacology

Study Abroad In Science

Studied chemistry, biology and neuroscience

A.A., General Studies