Michael Bates Email & Phone Number

United States

• Quality assurance testing on PET and TPU department products and raw materials
• Use of LIMS and SAP to maintain product records
• Use of HPLC, NIR, and GC to guarantee product quality and recognize quality problems
• Communication of results and product abnormalities with sales representatives and unit operators
• Preventative maintenance on laboratory equipment to insure proper function

Wheeling, West Virginia Area

• Use of ICP and IC instrumentation to monitor quality of waste water generated by oil and gas customers
• Quality assurance testing of in-house blend products
• Communication of results to customers through written reports
• Use of geochemical modeling software in order to assist customers in their choice of products
• Maintenance of laboratory equipment and general cleanliness to insure maximum efficiency of the laboratory

Wheeling, West Virginia Area

Researcher for a small organic chemistry research project on the synthesis of trans-pterocarpans. Primary functions included: running small scale organic reactions with an overall goal of synthesizing a singular product, operation of NMR and GC-MS instrumentation to verify synthesized products, and documentation of all work performed in the lab.

Morgantown, West Virginia

Primary researcher for a computational chemistry research project on the ability of a peptide, pHLIP, to fold across a membrane in low pH environments. This research project was managed by Dr. Blake Mertz. Primary responsibilities included performing independent experiments on a remote high performance computing cluster in a Linux environment and.