Michael Zickus, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States

Analytical Chemist in the R&D lab in the BioNutrients division at Sensient.

Skokie, Illinois, United States

QC supervisor overseeing daily activities along with optimization of analytical methods and testing.

Marseilles, Illinois

Black Dog Analytical, a leading consulting company for grit analysis and grit solutions pertaining to the wastewater industry!

Chicago, Il

Senior analytical chemist in charge of laboratory analysis of petroleum based products. Create and conduct analytical analyses according to ASTM protocols in order to meet company deadlines. Held to extremely high standards regarding accurate and precise data collection and record keeping. Duties include managing all personnel in the lab, maintaining and updating SOP's and standards, maintenance and calibration of all instrumentation, overseeing production of high quality QA/QC data. Manage and train all lab members, and interns, for appropriate analytical techniques as well as optimize high throughput and efficiency of lab employees.

Milwaukee, Wi

Served as a senior consultant to small start-up biotech companies to aid in business development, regulation, and various tasks for increasing production and further developing the companies portfolio.

Biotechnology & Bioengineering Center

Involved/lead in all analytical procedures and instrumentation in the lab. In charge of proteomics research initiatives and maintenance of HPLC, FPLC and MS intruments.Heavily involved in the Wisconsin CEGS project (www.wisconsincegs.org)

Department Of Chemistry And Biochemistry

Graduate teaching assistant with a focus in analytical chemistry. Research interests included: wet chemistry, instrumentation, engineering and proteomics. Specialize in analytical instrumentation set-up, calibration and validation for entire analytical lab. Finalized research in mass spectrometry and ion-ion interactions via MS.

Department Of Chemistry

Teacher for Chem 100 – “Chemistry in the Natural World”. Teaching and mentoring of students in the classroom and laboratory. Developed lesson plans, tests, demonstrations, and laboratory experiments to test students knowledge of the subject.Tasked with creating fun and exciting lab experiments and demonstrations to help involve students in the chemistry learning process. Focus on lab techniques and general lab procedures and etiquette.

Darien, Il

Operations Manager for a 130,000 sq. ft. sports facility including 3- NHL size ice rinks and 1 - indoor soccer field. Duties included ice rink maintenance, oversight of all operations of the facility, field house conversions (soccer to inline hockey, craft show set-up/tear town, etc.), management of employees, and 24 hour facility operations. In charge of day-to-day operations and smooth running of the facility.

Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry

Activities and Societies: 1. American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) - Member since 2007. 2. NIU Chemistry Club 3. NIU Safety Team.

M.S, Analytical Chemistry

Graduate Student- Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant Advisor:Victor Ryzhov -Specialize in mass spectrometry and analytical chemistry.

B.S., Chemistry/Biochemistry

Activities and Societies: - American Chemical Society (ACS) - Beta Beta Beta (Biological Society) - Elmhurst Chemistry Club - Elmhurst.