GODFREY BARKER

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East Orange, New Jersey, 07018

Job phone 732-***-****

Home phone 973-***-****

Cell phone 973-***-****

E- mail acf0jc@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE

****-****** Bristol-Meyers Squibb (in New Brunswick, NJ)

Product Development Technician:

Managing the inventory in three stockrooms in a pharmaceutical setting.

Preparing solvents.

General maintenance of labs.

Ordering laboratory supplies

2013-Todate Passaic County College.

Adjunct Chemistry Professor.

2004-2008 Union County College in New Jersey

Adjunct Professor of Chemistry

In this position I teach students who are pursuing Chemistry as a major and also

to those who are pursuing Register Nursing as a career. I conduct both the theory

and laboratory sessions.

2000 - 2004 ISP Sutton Laboratories – Chatham, New Jersey

Chemical Operator/ QC Technician.

We performed Organic Synthesis on a large scale. In this position I performed the

following list of activities:

Test incoming raw materials and outgoing products to ensure that they are within

the required specifications from a QC perspective using FTIR, KF, Automatic

Titrators, and Protein Analyzer etc.

(1) From the production perspective.

(a) Ensure that all vessels to be used are clean, and safe to use.

(b) Ensure that the right amounts of reactants are added to the vessels.

(c) Document all that was done.

(d) Start the reaction and add catalyst.

(e) Neutralize, filter and compute the yield of product from the main organic

synthesis.

(f) Use the product thus obtained in further reactions to obtain other products

that are packaged as liquids or spray dried which are then used to produce

many more products.

1992 – 1997 Ministry of Education in Castries St Lucia (Sir Ira Simmons Secondary

-School)

Head of the Mathematics Department

Teaching Mathematics at all levels in the school.

Preparing senior students write the external regional mathematics examination.

Assist in the preparation of the school mathematics curriculum.

Ensure that the curriculum is implemented and adhered to.

1990 – 1992 Demerara Distillers Ltd. – Georgetown, Guyana

Senior Laboratory Analyst:

We were involved in the production of alcohol using steam distillation; the job

was 50% quality control and 50% process control. In this position I performed

the following duties:

(a) Daily checks were made to ensure that all the necessary raw materials were

available.

(b) Ensure that the right amounts of raw materials were added together with

the right amount of yeast to initiate fermentation.

(c) Monitor the volume and quality of Carbon-Dioxide produced.

(d) Monitor the amount of Ethyl alcohol produced.

(e) Monitor wine production (fermentation and packaging).

(f) Working on Biogas pilot project.

(g) Drying yeast concentrate for the production of livestock feeds.

(h) Extraction of local flavors using Ethyl alcohol, for use in rum and a soft

drink line we were establishing.

1988 – 1990 Sanata Textiles Limited - Georgetown, Guyana

Technical Officer:

This Textile industry produces cotton fabrics, which were either dyed or used

for screen-printing. I was exposed to the preparation of various dye recipes,

which were used to dye the fabrics; pretreatment of Cotton fabrics so they can

absorb the dye uniformly.

1984– 1988 Guyana Fisheries Limited - Georgetown, Guyana

Quality Control Technician:

Conducting tests for melanosis on prawns, organoleptic test on fish, and

analytical methods to determine protein contents.

1982 – 1984 Guyana Mining Enterprise - Georgetown, Guyana

Laboratory Analyst:

In this position, we collect, prepare and analyze Bauxite samples using wet

chemistry techniques. Our main goals were to check for Iron and Aluminum in

the samples using titration and Spectrophotometer.

Competencies: Proficient in:

KF analysis, HPLC, IR, NMR, LOD analysis, DSC (TGA analysis).Protein

Analyzer.

Statistical analysis, Microsoft Office.

EDUCATION

2002- 2004 Montclair State University – Montclair, New Jersey.

Master of Science in Chemistry.

2000 – 2002 Montclair State University - Montclair, New Jersey

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry/Computer Science Minor

1998 – 2000 Essex County College - Newark, New Jersey

1981 - 1988 University of Guyana - Georgetown, Guyana.

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry/Minor in Mathematics

REFERENCES

Dr Truc Vu, Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute,

1 Squibb Drive, New Brunswick, NJ, 08903, Phone 732-***-****.

Dr M. Whitener, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry Montclair State University Phone # 973-655-

7166.

Dr J. Dyer, Professor of Biochemistry Montclair State University, Phone # 973-***-****.

Mr. John Devigili, Supervisor ISP Sutton, Phone # 973-***-****.

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