Norma Turner Email & Phone Number

Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

Boston

• Lead consultant on multiple projects, responsibilities including communicating with clients and third party vendors, and writing technical and progress reports.• Responsible for hiring, managing and performance of data entry team consisting of five people.• Wrote draft for ASTM standard (ASTM WK13292 - New Shipping of Possibly Infectious Materials).• Appointed as lab safety officer, with responsibilities including updating chemical inventory and maintaining material safety data sheets, and preparing evacuation plan for the lab.• Performed analytical tests using spectroscopy, chromatography, rheology, and calorimetry.• Wrote standard operating procedures for equipment and experimental practices.• Performed literature searches for multiple projects.

• Synthesized polymers for use in surgical implantation to engineer tissue and deliver drugs to internal injuries.• General knowledge of mammalian cell culture techniques.• Supervised and mentored undergraduate students with their research strategy and direction.• Responsible for lab management including tuning, troubleshooting and maintenance of equipment such as DSC, Instron, anaerobic chamber, HPLC, lyophilizer.

• Responsible for various approvals and reviews for expenditures, optimization and abandonment programs of oil and gas wells.• Position required that every decision had to be submitted via properly maintained forms.

• Wrote and submitted reports for status of gas well testing to provincial regulatory body (Alberta Energy and Utility Board (AEUB)).• Researched and wrote a report on the use of plastic or steel pipes in gas flow line. This report was consulted for future work.• Performed intensive gas migration testing to ensure environmental safety at well sites. A new position was created to analyze the data I collected.

Ms, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Chemical Engineering Teaching Assistant Written Thesis: Surface modification of a biodegradable elastomer.

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Co-Op program, Dean's list, University of Alberta Entrance Scholarship