EMILIA UGWU
Email: abl7fa@r.postjobfree.com
Missouri City, Texas 77459
Cell: 210-***-****
Objective: To obtain a Technical Training or Science/Engineering Curriculum
and Instructional Management position.
Education
Northeastern University
Doctor of Education, Science, Tech, Eng and Math Curriculum and Instruction
Leadership
Expected Dec 2010
Tiffin University, Tiffin Ohio
MBA 08/2008 GPA 3.78
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, Florida
MS Organic Chemistry 05/2003 GPA: 3.76
A T B University Bauchi, Nigeria
MS Industrial Chemistry 12/2000
B. Tech Industrial Chemistry 8/1995
Professional Experience
Weatherford International Houston, TX
Lead Product Safety and Compliance Specialist: 700+ Fracturing, Cementing
and Drilling Products. April 2008-Present
Duties:
* Review and create MSDS and Labels compliant to applicable local
regulations. Provide TSCA, 49CFR, EU REACH, AICS, ENCS and other
dangerous goods laws oversight. Respond to changes in global
legislation, customer specifications or requirements. Provide support
for product safety and compliance/regulatory programs in response to
evolving global dangerous goods laws. Use an internal audit process to
ensure compliance to global laws, while seeking to improve current
practices. Work directly with suppliers, R&D, sales and product line
managers to ensure a seamless business process. Quickly and effectively
work to resolve issues of non compliance.
* Synthesis of New Hydrogen Sulfide Scavengers. Synthesis/formulation of
New Brines for use as Drilling and completion Fluids. Process Improvement
including pilot plant evaluations of reaction schemes for scalability.
Technical support for Production/Manufacturing Plant GC-MS Analysis and
Characterization of New Products and Waste Fluids
Wyeth Research, Pearl River, NY
Research Scientist I 2005 - April 2008
Synthesis of drug delivery agents, Building of compound libraries of
target/potential drug candidates through the use of Structure Activity
Relationships (SARs). Synthesis of new analogues of target molecules and
analysis of HPLC, MS, LC-MS, GC, UV, NMR and CHN data. Process
justification and optimization with the use of Design of Experiments
software. Use of automated equipment such as React Array to optimize and
test reaction schemes for robustness and scalability. Determination of
failure points of synthetic reaction pathways using automated reaction
plans. Use of Prep LC systems for purifying compounds and isolating
impurities as low as 0.1%.
Bedoukian Research, Danbury, CT
R&D Chemist, June 2004- Sep 2005
Developed and optimized scale up processes for the synthesis of
Panthothenyl triacetate and Linalyl acetate, Mosquito oviposition pheromone
(5R, 6S) -6-acetoxy -5-hexadecanolide, Long chain poly-ene insect pheromone
and chiral resolution of 10 insect attractant alcohols.
Aurigene Discoveries, Lexington, MA
Synthetic Organic Chemist 2003-2004
Contract/custom synthesis of potential drug candidates.
Chemistry Department, Florida A& M University, Tallahassee, Fl
General and Organic Chemistry Lab Instructor 2001-2003
Chemistry Department, Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi
General Chemistry Lecturer 1997-2001
Certifications: 49CFR, IATA and IMDG Certified.
In Service Training:
Train the Trainer, Enterprise Excellence: Total Quality Management, Red
Belt DMAIC, Red Belt Basic Statistics, Lean, Responsible Business
communication. MS Visio, MS Project, MS Access, MS Excel: Regression and
Statistical analysis, WebEx, Adobe Photoshop, Design of Experiments, Adobe
PDF maker. Weatherford and the petroleum Industry, Enterprise Excellence:
Total Quality Management
TSCA Essentials, MSDS authoring using MSDGen, H2S Handling.
Skills
Skilled in program and project management, strong research and
communication skills, Team Player, strong people and organizational skills.
SAP, JDE, Wind Chill, MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Novell, Visio,
Project, Access, Design of Experiments, Chem. Draw.
Skilled in carrying out all kinds of organic reactions including
epoxidations, brominations, mesylations, acetylations, esterifications,
enzyme catalyzed isomerizations, coupling, Grignard and carboxylation
reactions. Experienced in distillation, chromatography, Wiped film
evaporation and crystallization, NMR, GC, GC-MS, LC, LCMS, Prep LC and UV-
VIS analysis.