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Rochester, New York, United States

Rochester, New York, United States

Rochester, New York, United States

Synthesize inorganic nano materials, analyze sample using analytical techniques such as XRD, particle size analysis by Laser Scattering Particle Size Distribution (Horiba), UV-vis. Improve laboratory procedures, organization, and safety.

Rochester, New York Area

Rochester, New York Area

• Established a new quality system, sample, and data tracking procedure. • Implemented an inert atmosphere product packaging station, under budget and on time. • Improved product testing, approving each batch before addition to the product tank.• Wrote SOPs, user manuals, safety documentation, and project proposals.• Safely maintained the quality lab for validating water reactive materials.• Particle size analysis by laser refraction using Malvern Mastersizer 3000.• Analyzed and reported on data collected in the manufacturing plant.• Oversaw updates for the plant P&ID documentation and equipment lists.• Consulted for R&D lab safety using water reactive materials• Trained in multimodal shipping by Currie Associates, Inc. in Ground (49 CFR 172.704), Air (IATA), and Sea (IMDG) dangerous goods shipping methods (March 2019).• OSHA 10-Hour General Industry Safety (May 2018)

Batavia, Ny

Summit Lubricants is a Quaker Chemical Company.• Grease product development and pilot lab scale up from 2 - 130 kg Lab.• Successful scale up of 7 products from the lab to production 5,000 - 10,000 kg per batch.• Product optimization and manufacturing cost reduction using Lean Six Sigma techniques.• Competitive analysis testing to develop offset product offering.• Product testing and analysis ensuring new product formulations meet customers needs.• Improve safety practices in both R&D and manufacturing.• NLGI grease course: “Advanced Fundamentals of Lubricating Grease” June 14, 2016.

Wilmington, Delaware

• Polymer and Fiber Development: Monomer synthesis via chlorination; Condensation polymerizations in oleum; Polymer fiber wet spinning; Synthesized and tested new polymers; Optimized fiber spinning conditions using Design of Experiments; Lead fiber property analysis (denier, tenacity, elongation, and modulus) via Instron; Fiber dyeability. • Quality control testing of polymers.• Designed, implemented and led the installation of a small-scale wet spinning machine.• Kinetics of polymer derivatization and degradation using real-time FTIR. • Communicated findings with IP, poster presentations, team meetings, internal publications and electronic (and standard) lab notebooks.• Participate on recruiting team for DuPont CR&D – interviewed and hosted candidates.• Established lab spaces including initial setup, equipment purchasing, installation, and maintenance in four different lab areas.• Safety: Write safety reviews and process hazard analyses; Present safety topic at formal safety meetings: Slips trips & falls, Waste disposal; Participated in a safety deep dive to make glassware handling safer. Inspect labs to foster organizational safety.

Wilmington, Delaware

• Synthesis: Fluorinated monomers via air sensitive chemistry (dry box & Schlenk line) and polymers using radical initiated emulsion co-polymerizations, new surfactants, and hydrotropes; Synthesized polyol oils using esterification and distillation purification. • Established lab for an OSI (Oxidative Stability Instrument), for the measurement of rancidification of oils. • Established FAME (Fatty Acid Methyl Esters) analyses, which was adopted by a team of 10 and provided a method to monitor oil compositional change after oxidative and thermal stability tests.• Established thermal aging capacity, calibrated ovens, led safety review and SOP.• Independently established a quantitative analysis method for additives within fluids.• Managed all samples sent for analyses to an outside testing lab for a team of 10 people.• Six Sigma Green Belt Certified (June 2009)• Other Techniques: Acid-base titrations, hazardous materials handling including strong acids/bases in volumes up to 30 L. Purification using silica gel columns and molecular sieves; FTIR, GC, GC/MS, UV/Vis, 1H, 19F, & 13C NMR, Tensiometer (surface tension)

Redmond, Washington

• Product knowledge: GPS, tents, sleeping bags, climbing gear, backpacks, water filters, etc. • Taught new staff product specifications, merchandising, and company procedures.• Taught clinics to customers: “Basic Snowshoeing”, “The ten plus essentials’, “Map and Compass”.

Seattle, Washington

• Chemistry: Oxidized alkanes using osmium tetroxide.• Techniques: vacuum transfer solvents, freeze-pump-thaw de-gas, flame seal NMR tubes.• Assisted with equipment maintenance: glove boxes and their relocation, pressurized solvent system, vacuum pumps, glass wear, Schlenk line, recirculating heating/cooling.• Instrumentation: High Field 1H NMR Spectrometers, GC, GC/MS, UV/Vis.

Bs, Chemistry

Undergraduate Research in James M. Mayer's lab.

Associate In Arts And Sciences

High School Diploma