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Wantage, Gb

Milton Hill, England, United Kingdom

* Responsible for connecting and aligning large (30+), global (US, AP, EU) team of senior stakeholders, customer facing colleagues, and technical teams on major project.* Facilitated sessions to align stakeholders on issue to solve, roles and responsibilities; gather individual project plans and ensure alignment with customer timelines; risk assess potential impacts; align project teams and share progress.· Prepare materials for presentation to senior management, internal and external customers; collated financial reporting across technical teams.

Milton Hill, England, United Kingdom

* Led team to identify feasible options and conduct performance assessment in a multimillion dollar new product development. Mixture of hypothesis-led and empirical experiments. * Collaborated with colleagues in procurement, manufacturing, regulatory, and supply departments to ensure smooth transition of options through new product development process.· Conducted statistical assessments of available tests and existing databases to identify best to use for predicting performance in complex tests that were as yet unavailable.· Regularly presented progress and recommended next steps to senior stakeholders.

Macquarie University, Sydney

· Delivered novel surface-modified materials for catalysis applications (one paper published)· Managed six researchers: designed projects, taught synthetic techniques, data analysis and interpretation, complex problem solving* Publicised work at three international and three local meetings (four talks, two posters)* Negotiated a department-wide 10% discount from main chemical supplier* Developed 3-year future research business development plan ($800k grant proposal)· Established partnerships that gave our group access to new analytical instruments · Prepared risk assessments, Standard Working Procedures, and implemented good lab practices· Engaged H&S staff to change departmental safety following hazard identification and incidents, resulted in improved chain of communication following fire alarms

University Of Oxford

· Industry sponsored project making complexes that catalyse polymerisation reactions: experiment design, collection and interpretation of characterisation and reactivity data· Wrote two and co-authored two papers for high impact factor journals* Studied polymer magnetometry for multidisciplinary collaboration (paper in J. Am. Chem. Soc.)· Collaborated with scientists at a national research facility· Designed and supervised Master’s research project* Advocated for improved safety standards as departmental safety committee member

Department Of Inorganic Chemistry, University Of Oxford, Uk

· Responsible for ensuring risk assessments had been completed and understood, and that experiments were conducted safely· Supervised, taught and marked work of up to 12 first year students each week· Able to rotate between all first year experiments at short notice and train new demonstrators

Oxford, United Kingdom

· Fact checked, improved brevity, spelling, grammar and style of multiple drafts of 4-6 articles each term

Oxford, United Kingdom

* Designed and organised four themed university ‘Taster Days’ for 84 pupils aged 13-14, scheme has since been scaled up and run annually for year 10 and 12 students at www.pathways.ox.ac.uk· Chose activities, prepared and safety checked resources, and ran science stall at Cowley Road Carnival 2011, encouraged visitors to discuss the science behind the phenomena and answered questions

University Of Oxford

· Part II project: Investigated activation of hydrogen and carbon dioxide by 11 novel molecular systems.* 1st class research thesis: Reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol using frustrated Lewis pairs.* Published first author paper on this work, featured in a special issue of Dalton Transactions* College Scholarship for academic excellence.

Pfizer, Sandwich

· Synthesised and characterised eight new compounds which were sent for in vitro trials in treating respiratory disease (COPD).

Dphil, Inorganic Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Vice-President & Secretary of Middle Common Room (graduate students) committee; Graduate student representative.

Mchem, Chemistry, 1St