Sara J. Koepke, Ph.D., Lssyb Email & Phone Number

Naperville, IL, US

Pueblo, Colorado, United States

• Prepared, facilitated, and provided project management for reports, and test plans to meet State, Federal, RCRA, and Army regulatory requirements for a chemical weapons destruction facility.
• Used quality judgement and discretion to support data gathering and analysis, report preparation, and regulatory, environmental, and permit compliance.
• Identified, developed, and implemented solutions and process improvements to technical issues related to demilitarization operations at the direction of senior leadership.
• Provided technical services as a subject matter expert with a team specializing in engineering, microbiology, and analytical chemistry.
• Received refreshers on ~160 hours of safety training every one to two years.

Pueblo, Colorado, United States

• Improved preventative maintanance program for GC/FPD instrumentation through data driven approach.
• Volunteered for 6 Sigma, and several successful laboratory, safety, and Laboratory Improvement Team initiatives including an OSHA VPP special project, resulting in individual monetary recognition.
• Analyzed DAAMS tubes, hydrolysate glovebox samples, hydraulic fluid, and recovered water for agent and/or agent breakdown products using GC/FPD and /MSD instrumentation in support of plant operations and Clean Air Act.
• Conducted maintenance on equipment and peer reviews of analytical data in support of laboratory quality assurance.
• Procedurally compliant agent user with exceptional QC record and high attention to detail.
• Received ~160 hours of safety training with refresher training every one to two years.

Woodstock, Illinois

• Replaced over 50 Dell and Cisco network switches quickly and efficiently with a close eye for cable management.
• Installed structured cabling in a datacenter environment including CAT 6 and Fiber network cabling.
• Managed switches, racks, ethernet and fiber optic cable in more than 6 buildings.

Salt Lake City, UT

• ✿ Copper catalysts for solar power advancement: electrochemistry of a dicopper dihydroxide precatalyst for water oxidationPI: Matt Kieber-Emmons, Assistant Professor, Ph.D.
• Advanced fundamental chemical knowledge in the areas of electrocatalysis as evidenced in two posters, and one publication.
• Spearheaded both independent and team oriented chemical research projects using analytical methods, mentoring both undergraduate and peer researchers in safe methods and techniques.
• Implemented a wide range of procedures, methods, standards, and training as safety officer from October 2016 to May 2017 designed to bring remedial university safety up to OSHA standards within the lab group.
• Comfortable with electrochemical (electrodes, electrochemical detection) research equipment, activities and procedures involving using strong, corrosive, flammable, and caustic chemicals and highly analytical.

Salt Lake City, UT

• Managed, taught, and graded 11–26 students via instruction, and example in laboratory technique, fundamentals, instrumentation, and application for General Chemistry II.
• Trained students to develop critical-thinking skills and both self-teach and teach others.

Salt Lake City, UT

• Taught a love of science by focusing on chemistry-specific study methods and real-world applications of chemistry.
• Improved students grades though one-on-on, private instruction focusing on improving chemistry knowledge, study skills, and student confidence.

Salt Lake City, UT

• ✿ Mitochondrial sensing of environmental toxins: electrochemical evaluation of extraction procedures and toxins on the mechanism of mitochondrial bioelectrocatalysisPI: Shelley D. Minteer, Professor, Ph.D.
• Advanced fundamental chemical knowledge in the areas of biological sensing, biological methods, pesticide detection, and electrocatalysis as evidenced in two publications.
• Spearheaded independent chemical research projects, safely, using both standard and newly developed biological and analytical methods.
• Implemented a wide range of procedures, methods, standards, and training as safety officer from November 2015 to May 2016 designed to bring remedial university safety up to OSHA standards within the lab group.
• Comfortable with many biological (yeast, plant, mitochondria, mammalian tissue), and electrochemical (electrodes, sensors, electrochemical detection) research equipment, activities and procedures involving using.

Salt Lake City, UT

• Managed, taught, and graded 11–26 students via instruction, and example in laboratory technique, fundamentals, instrumentation, and application for Analytical Chemistry I.
• Trained students to develop critical-thinking skills and both self-teach and teach others.

Dekalb, IL

• ✿ Acid rain formation: thermochemistry studies of protonated water, sulfuric acid nucleation sitesCo-PI: Lee S. Sunderlin, Associate Professor, Ph.D.Co-PI: Victor V. Ryzhov, Associate Professor, Ph.D.
• Advanced fundamental chemical knowledge in the areas of acid rain and fossil fuel byproducts as evidenced in a poster and a manuscript in preparation.
• Comfortable with gas-phase ion chemistry of biomolecules (using Electrospray ionization – Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry), equilibrium analysis yielding binding energies and theoretical calculations (using.
• Worked on the maintenance and preparation of a Guided Ion Beam Mass Spectrometer for use with an Electrospray ionization source.

Dekalb, IL

• Managed, taught, and graded 12–24 students via lecture, instruction, assignment, exam, and example in laboratory technique, fundamentals, instrumentation, and application for Introductory, General I, General II.
• Administered, wrote, edited, and graded tests and laboratory assignments.
• Trained students to develop critical-thinking skills and both self-teach and teach others.

Des Plaines, IL

• ✿ What is in petroleum products: HR-FT-ICR-MS characterization of the 20,000+ molecular components of heavy petroleum fractions
• Prepared and analyzed various petroleum and biological based samples for high resolution Mass Spectrometric analysis using a 12 Tesla FT-ICR-MS with APPI, ESI (+/-), and MALDI sources in an environment that required.
• Maintained, organized, and documented the business-critical instruments, computers, lab, sampling, and analysis and process procedures to allow for the safety and efficiency of equipment, personnel, and visitors as lab.
• Troubleshot contamination issues and optimization of instrument settings and sample quantities in order to fully utilize the sensitivity and resolution capabilities of the FT-ICR-MS.

Des Plaines, IL

• ✿ Methane to methanol: fundamental exploration into catalytic methane conversion at high temperature and pressure(May 2006–August 2006, May 2007–August 2007)
• Ran fundamental exploratory reactions using high-pressure, batch multi-reactors in order to expand upon current theories and research. Used strong, toxic, corrosive, flammable, caustic, fuming, and acidic chemicals and.
• Prepared and analyzed samples for GC (using both manual and auto-sampling), GC/MS (gas injection), HPLC, UV-Vis, and colorimetric analyses.

Dekalb, Illinois, United States

• PI: Victor V. Ryzhov, Associate Professor, Ph.D.
• Prepared and analyzed samples for the Mass Spectrometry of biomolecules using gas-phase ion chemistry and an Electrospray ionization – Quadrupole Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer.
• Performed equilibrium analysis yielding binding energies as well as theoretical calculations using Gaussian 03.

Cary And Mchenry, IL

• INTERN: QUALITY CONTROL TECHNICIAN Cary, IL(May 2004–August 2004, December 2005–January 2006, December 2006–January 2007)INTERN: QUALITY CONTROL TECHNICIAN McHenry, IL(May 2005–August 2005)
• Used organizational, self-directing, multi-tasking, and communication skills to help meet ISO requirements.
• Maintained confidentiality and worked with controlled documents.
• Designed new-hire training materials.
• Adapted easily to new software and tested requisite training materials.
• Monitored quality control for various production machines by using precise measuring and optical instruments.

Batavia, IL

• Managed the main research facility computer’s backup and recovery processes
• Monitored and coordinated the tape vault.
• Received help desk based calls and initiated the help desk procedures.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemistry

✿✿✿✿ ✿ Dissertation Title: Making and Breaking Dioxygen: ✿ ✿✿✿✿ ✿ Electrochemical Studies of Bioinspired and Biological Electrocatalysts ✿.

None, Course Work Towards A Ph.D., Chemistry

● Focused on Analytical Chemistry with Physical Chemistry collaborations ● Received the Joe W. Vaughn Teaching Award (May 2010) ●.

B.S., Chemistry, Minor Psychology

● ACS Certified Degree in Chemistry ● Received the Rock River Section Award for research from the ACS (May 2007) ● Presented a poster at.

High School Diploma

● Took Power Mechanics: Small Engines, Auto Mechanics, and Industrial Technology ● Took Dramatic Literature, Choir (four years), and Art.