Michael L. H. Turoff E-mail: acgg2b@r.postjobfree.com

**** ***** **** ***** *** address as of November:

League City, TX 775**-****-**** Haywood Drive

281-***-**** [Mobile] Houston, TX 77061

Professional Goals:

The attainment of a leadership role at a research or production facility

involving proactive analytical methods development and execution, training,

supervision and quality control functions utilizing my technical expertise

in a multitude of analytical instrumentation applications.

Employment History:

Lab Supervisor and Scientist, MPR Services, Inc., Dickinson, TX (a wholly

owned subsidiary of Tessenderlo Kerley). MPR specializes in ion exchange

purification of alkanolamines and glycols and oxidation of spent caustics.

Performed process development research on several projects which resulted

in a patent issuance for one in particular. Saved the company more than

$35,000 by refurbishing titrators by cannibalizing spare parts from broken

units. Designed and implemented the building of a new laboratory facility.

Responsibilities included methods development and training of lab and

production personnel in the use of equipment including GCs, ICs, HPLC, ICP,

Automated Titrators. Supervision of four lab chemists and technicians.

Training operations personnel on field chemistry procedures. Established

SQC protocols for the lab. (Oct. 1999 - July 2014)

Staff Chemist, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Houston Chemical Plant,

Houston, TX. Designed and implemented the building of a new laboratory

facility. Responsibilities: GC, physical and titrations methods

development. Performed modernization/documentation of existing procedures

and team coordination of several ongoing projects. Establishing SQC

protocols for the lab. TQM. ISO-9001 program development and

implementation. Implemented use of new GC Data System (Turbochrom).

(Sept. 1992 - October, 1999)

Contract Chemist, E. I. duPont de Nemours, Agricultural Chemicals Division,

LaPorte, TX. Responsibilities: GC and LC methods development for their

agricultural chemicals operations, THF operations, and Ethyl-Vinyl Alcohol

plant start-up operations. (July 1991 - Sept. 1992)

Contract Chemist, Adams Laboratories, Ft. Worth, TX. Responsibilities:

Assisted in the move of their laboratory from Hurst, TX to their new

facility in Ft. Worth, Methods Development in a pharmaceutical GLP

environment. (Feb. 1991 - May 1991)

Senior Engineer (Chemist) in the Materials and Processes Control Laboratory

at General Dynamics Corp., Fort Worth Division, Fort Worth, TX. (GD was

purchased by Lockheed and it is now called the Lockheed Fort Worth

Company.) Responsibilities: Operation of FTIR, Elemental Analyzer, Thermal

Conductivity, and UV/VIS/NIR Spectrophotometry equipment. Backup operator

of a HP GC-MS system and X-Ray Diffraction equipment. Assisted in the

establishment of a composite layup/curing of Carbon-Carbon materials for

use in the National Aerospace Plane Program. (April 1988 - Jan. 1991)

Staff Analytical Chemist and Lab Co-Supervisor, Analytical Development

Laboratory at Rohm & Haas Texas, Deer Park, TX (Acrylic Monomers). (Now

part of Dow Chemical) Responsibilities: Supervision and training of five

technicians. Assisted in the set-up of and move into the new laboratory

facility in 1987. Operation of GC, LC, IC and titration equipment.

(Nov. 1986 - March 1988)

Contract Analytical Chemist at the W. R. Grace Organic Chemicals Division,

Deer Park, TX (Now Hampshire Chemicals) Responsibilities: Established an

analytical method library and developed automated titrations for routine

use by operations personnel. (April 1986 - Nov. 1986)

Production Analytical Chemist, Dow Chemical, USA, Texas Division, Freeport,

TX Responsibilities: GC, LC, IR, X-Ray Fluorescence and titrations

methods development and optimization. RCRA resource. Maintaining and

editing laboratory training manuals. Training operations personnel on

laboratory equipment and methodologies. Computer programming. Reactive

chemicals resource. Analytical services liaison. (Feb. 1980 - Feb. 1986)

Laboratory Experience:

Working knowledge of computer controlled instrumentation operation: HPLC,

GPC, IR, FTIR, IC, ICP, Microprocessor Controlled Titrators, GC (packed and

capillary), Elemental Analyzers (CHNOS), Spectrophotometry (UV/VIS/NIR).

Microsoft Word Processing softwares and Excel programs. SQC/SPC

background.

Alternate Professional Activities:

Commander of a Civil Air Patrol Senior Squadron at Hobby Airport. Licensed

master skydiver. FAA licensed senior parachute rigger. FAA licensed

commercial pilot, single and multi-engine land with an instrument flight

rating. Advanced class amateur radio license holder. Director of Safety

for the Texas Wing of the Civil Air Patrol

Academic Preparation:

M.S. Analytical Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX (1978)

B.S. Chemistry, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, NJ (1973)

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