Associate Chemist

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OBJECTIVE
To work in a highly technical and safety minded environment where I can grow at a professional level as well as intellectually. To work as a team player in this highly motivated and safety minded company. I have a long work history with my former employers as both an easily trainable and very flexible individual. I have very strong computer skills coupled with good communications and a need to succeed in all endeavors.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Employer: Chemical Contractors of Rhode Island, Co.
Title: Associate Chemist, Technical Writer (Professional Association)
Location: Providence, RI
Duration: •••••/•••••  -  Present
Job Duties: Chemical contracting to companies in need of specialist in the fields of organic, inorganic, analytical, polymer & biotech chemistry. Writing technical protocols & Sops for engineering & chemical laboratories in the manufacturing & textile industries. Providing on site as well as telephone support for analytical equipment used for wet chemistry & metallurgy. Providing chemical awareness training for small manufacturing facilities in the SE MA & RI areas & updating emergency evacuation plans.

Employer: Cold Chain Technologies, Inc.
Title: Technical Writer
Location: Holliston, MA.
Duration: •••••/••••• - •••••/•••••
Job Duties: (Contract Position) The writing and modification of Operational Qualification Reports for a Thermal Packaging Engineering laboratory. This included data-mining for accurate test results in previous test years & sorting through archived data formats. The presenting of reports & finding to Sales & Marketing for the clients end users.

Employer: Albany International Research Center
Title: R&D Associate Chemist
Location: Mansfield, MA.
Duration: •••••/••••• - •••••/•••••
Job Duties: (Contract Position) Research & development of poly urethane belts for the paper mill industry. The bench chemistry for (DOE) experiments and the subsequent collection of data using instrumentation analysis and Minitab software. All liner NCO titrations for pilot trials related to new formulations.

Employer: Mantrose-Haeuser, Inc.
Title: QC Chemist
Location: Attleboro, MA.
Duration: •••••/••••• •••••/•••••
Job Duties: (Contract Position) In process quality control of shellac generated products in an ISO & cGMP regulated laboratory. Raw material testing using USP and proprietary protocols developed solely for the shellac industry using auto & manual titrators, illusions & extractions.

Employer: Nutramax Cough & Cold Division
Title: QC Chemist
Location: Brockton, MA.
Duration: •••••/••••• •••••/•••••
Job Duties: (Contract Position) In process quality control testing of active ingredients on cough drops using HPLC and GC equipment in a FDA regulated production laboratory. Raw material testing using USP protocols & procedures.

Employer: Chemical Contractors of Rhode Island, Co.
Title: Technical Writer
Location: Providence, RI
Duration: •••••/•••••  - •••••/•••••
Job Duties: Writing technical protocols & Sops for engineering & chemical laboratories in the manufacturing & textile industries. Providing on site as well as telephone support for analytical equipment used for wet chemistry & metallurgy. Providing chemical awareness training for small manufacturing facilities in the Rhode Island area & updating emergency evacuation plans.

Employer: Ultra Fine Powder Technology, Inc.
Title: Q.C. Lab Technician
Location: Woonsocket, RI
Duration: •••••/•••••  - •••••/•••••
Job Duties: (Contract Position) My duties at UFP were in support of their powder manufacturing facility in Woonsocket, RI. This involves wet chemistry with concentrated acids such as Aqua Regia, HCL, HF and HNO••••• The operation of a Leeman Labs Prodigy ICP unit and various particle counters, oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur measurement hardware and software. The training of the resident Lab Technician on GLP and fundamental chemistry. As well as training in MS Office •••••, specifically Excel & Access for statistical quality control applications.

Employer: Tyco / Kendall Healthcare
Title: Q.C. Lab Technician, Special Project R&D Lab Technician
Location: Mansfield, MA
Duration: •••••/•••••  - •••••/•••••
Job Duties: (Contract Position) My duties at Tyco were the chemical testing of products sent from the manufacturing facilities to the corporate laboratories in Mansfield for quality & longevity studies. This includes using the USP standards of quality assurance tests, such as NaCl titration, extractions and elusions. The mixing of any and all reagents needed for these tests.

Employer: Saint-Gobain
Title: R&D Lab Technician
Location: Northborough, MA
Duration: •••••/•••••  - •••••/•••••
Job Duties: (Contract Position) My duties here at Saint-Gobain (formally Norton Abrasives) were the research and development of new products in the Technical Fabrics Division. This includes woven & non-woven textile products for the Industrial & Commercial Business Units. This R&D involves experiments and pilot projects in the fiberglass scrim used in the majority of our commercial building products as well as their extruded polypropylene coatings. (For advanced durability) I was responsible for the initial experimental run, the initial quality testing and the collection of data.

Employer: Diamond Diagnostics, Inc.
Title: Reagent Manufacturing Technician
Location: Holliston, MA
Duration: •••••/•••••  - •••••/•••••
Job Duties: (Contract Position) My duties at Diamond Diagnostics in the Formulations Laboratory were the mixing of batches both large & small of FDA regulated chemical reagents for the reconditioned Blood Gas & Urine Analysis equipment that are sold by Diamond Diagnostics worldwide.


Employer: Wolverine Joining Technologies, Inc.
Title: Associate Chemist
Location: Warwick, RI
Duration: •••••/•••••  - •••••/•••••
Job Duties: (Contract Position) My responsibilities included the analysis of lot metals purchased in bulk for the manufacturing of precious & non precious joining technologies through the use of an Applied Research Laboratorys ARL ••••• SIM-SEQ XRF X-ray workstation. The further processing of post melt metals through means of Wet Chemistry using Nitric and HCL acids for sample preparation for DCP and AA analysis using an ARL Spectra Span V (for DCP) and a Perkin Elmer Analysis system for AA. I was also responsible for database entry post melt and C of Cs before shipping.

Employer: Gentex Optics, Inc.
Title: Chemical & Engineering Tech.
Location: Dudley, MA
Duration: •••••/•••••  - •••••/•••••
Job Duties:
a. Chemical Lab. Technician: My duties were the development of all new Solvent based coatings for the Polycarbonate Lens processes that are used for Essilor, USA Global Thermoplastics Engineering Division at Gentex Optics, Inc

b. Engineering Technician: My duties in this capacity were the collection of raw data from Process Indicators sent to me from Essilors entire family of Polycarbonate Lens manufacturing facilities, globally. I also write Pilot Project proposals for Hard Coating Engineering Experiments & Pilot Projects.

Employer: Proteome Systems, Inc.
Title: QC/Production Tech.
Location: Woburn, MA
Duration: •••••/•••••  - •••••/•••••
Job Duties: My duties included the manufacturing of Acryl amide Gel Chips in plastic and glass. The mixing of Production & Q.C. solutions. The manufacturing of consumable Albumin Depletion and Maldi-Matrix kits. The Q.C. testing of these Digestion Kits. The writing of all SOPs associated with the Manufacturing & Quality Assurance of these kits & the equipment used in their production. I was also responsible for the Hazardous Waste Containment and disposal as well as the MSDS files and any new chemical additions along with QA document control in a gmp/cmp environment.

Employer: ACS Industries, Inc.
Title: Lead QC/Chemical Tech & Biotech Associate
Location: Woonsocket, RI
Duration: •••••/•••••  - •••••/•••••
Job Duties: My duties included the scaling up of the production of Green, Red, White and Blue Scrub pads and the cleaning chemicals used in the manufacturing of the steel scrubbers that are made here in our Woonsocket plants. I was also involved in the Production Departments first run testing of new products submitted for consideration for future use. I ran Q.C. testing on raw material as well as the finished goods that were used in our plant. I was on the ACS Industries Safety Committee and I was responsible for the employees Chemical Awareness & LOTO training.






EDUCATION
Major: Chemical Sciences & Engineering, Chemistry
School: San Fran Community College, University of San Francisco
Location: CA
Degree: Associates Degree. BS Chemistry
Completion Date: •••••/•••••

SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Microsoft Windows •••••, •••••, •••••, NT, •••••, XP. Vista, Minitab, •••••, Linux & Red Hat. Chem-Station, MS Office •••••, •••••, SAP, Process Pro, Word Perfect Suite , Lotus Notes, AutoCAD, K-CAD, MS-DOS. Apple/MAC OS •••••, ••••• ••••• IT Hardware & Software. I have worked with desktop computers almost my whole adult life and have excelled with the new technology in both the chemical and production end of the industry. I also speak Spanish.

Devices
Perkin Elmer TGA ••••• and DMA - 7
Varian ••••• GC
Agilent ••••• GC
Perkin Elmer HPLC
Perkin Elmer Spectrophotometer
Perkin Elmer AA System for Windows
Applied Research Laboratorys ARL ••••• SIM-SEQ XRF
Fume Hood / Ventilated workstations
Single & Double screw extruders
Malvern Multi Purpose Titrator (MPT•••••)
Malvern Mastersizer Particle Size Analyzer
Karl Fischer Titrators
Shimadzu Spectrophotometers & Colorimeters
Leeman Labs Prodigy ICP
CS••••• Carbon Sulfur Analyzer
TC••••• Oxygen Nitrogen Analyzer
ABBE & Gardner Refractometers