Manager Project Management

Melissa Tucker Nelson, PhD

Analytical Chemistry Project Management Business Development

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Professional Profile

Analytical chemist combines a synergistic mix of project management and

business development. Approaches obstacles with solutions that are

creative and innovative yet practical and logical. Devises, develops,

plans, executes and manages projects that create value and have a lasting

impact. Worked in a collaborative consulting environment and naturally

develops networking relationships throughout diverse organizations.

Effectively interacts with all levels of management, colleagues and clients

resulting in cohesive cross-functional teams.

Strong initiative

Persistence

Talent for mastering new areas

Organized and methodical

Flexible to changing priorities

R&D project management

Technology assessment

High-impact presentations

Productive under pressure

Works well with others

Experience

Arthur D. Little, Inc. (now called TIAX, LLC) Cambridge, MA (1997-2002)

Arthur D. Little pioneered the concept of contracted professional services

in 1886. Consulting services offered include: product & process innovation,

National defense, environmental health & safety and management consulting

services.

. Manager of the Material's Characterization Laboratory. FTIR,

Microscopy, FTIR Microscopy, Thermal analysis (TGA, TMA, DSC), GLP,

ISO9000.

. Guest-editor of a special issue of Field Analytical Chemistry and

Technology on open path FTIR instrumentation advances, applications and

data treatment (Volume 3, Issue 2).

Manager (1999-2002) Selected Cases:

. US Army. One of three analytical chemistry project managers on an

engineering design study to determine the best technology for the

destruction of chemical weapon stockpiles. Pilot plants were built and

over 20,000 effluent samples were tested by numerous subcontracted &

military labs. Responsibilities included: staff oversight (own company

and other subcontractors), planning, team motivation, analytical data

interpretation, and coordination at the pilot plant and in the office.

Prepared input for reports to US Congress. The best technology was

selected by a working group and construction of two Army plants began

in 2009. (www.PMACWA.Army.mil)

. Confidential Client. Performed trade-off analysis of the most

promising field-portable sensors available in the next five years for a

client with challenging and very specific sensing needs.

Senior Scientist (1997-1999) Selected Cases:

. NASA. Presented the use of open path FTIR to monitor air in real time

on the International Space Station. Technology presentation scored the

highest. Further developed and validated the approach using target

chemicals. Validation continues with the European Space Agency.

. Litigation Support. Participated in a litigation support team regarding

N2O4 incident. Developed a unique visual display to convey to a jury

the complex chemistry involved.

Midwest Research Institute Kansas City, MO (1994-1997)

Midwest Research Institute (MRI) is a not-for-profit, contract research

organization providing solutions through scientific research, technology

development, and technical services for the benefit of government,

industry, and the public. MRI performs research in the areas of National

defense, health sciences, chemical sciences and Engineering.

Staff Chemist (1994-1997) Selected Cases:

. Department of Defense. Lead scientist and analysis task manager on a

program that determined the effect of chemical warfare (CW) agent

exposure on rocket propellant. Developed novel test methods and

modified standard methods for use on unique, sensitive samples.

. Confidential Client. Used mathematical interpolation to determine

physical properties of toxic organophosphorus compounds from literature

values of similar compounds.

. SEMATECH (www.sematech.org). Chemical analysis sub-task team leader on

a $600k, 6-month effort using FTIR to analyze effluent streams from

plasma etch and chemical vapor deposition tools. Within the project

timeframe, made key industry contacts, and learned quickly about the

industry and the technical aspects of the project. As a result, invited

to an interactive workshop at MIT, and to an industry task force

coordinated by NIST.

. Business Development. Member of company-wide semiconductor technical

marketing task force. Worked with others on business development

activities, proposals, and white papers. Work resulted in a marketable

product and established company as a key player for the industry.

Education & Professional Development

. Ph. D. in Analytical Chemistry (1994) - Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS

Thesis title: Atmospheric Evaluation Using Various Open Path Fourier

Transform Infrared (OP-FT-IR) Monitoring Techniques and Configurations

Professors- Dr. William G. Fateley & Dr. Robert Hammaker

. The USAFCEA course The US Intelligence Community: Who Does What, With

What, For What?

. Successful Project Management course

. Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics (1990) - Miami University Oxford, OH

. Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (1990) - Miami University Oxford, OH

. Strategic Selling, Key Client Management and Conceptual Selling courses

. Visiting scientist at Ohio University's Center for Intelligent Chemical

Instrumentation under the direction of Dr. Gary W. Small.

Honors and Awards

. Arranged, organized and presented a workshop on FTIR remote sensing in

Vienna, Austria

. Star Case Awards for projects in all three Arthur D. Little business

units (technology development, management consulting and EHS)

. Phi Lambda Upsilon, Chemistry Honorary Society, elected member

. Coblentz Society distinguished award for outstanding student in

vibrational spectroscopy

. Committee member, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

committee for the Standardization of PFC Emissions Reporting by the

Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry to the EPA.

Selected Publications (27 Total) (Under maiden name: Melissa D. Tucker)

"S68 Final Report: Template Methodology and Lessons Learned for Sampling

and Analyzing Tool Effluents," Melissa D. Tucker, G. Dean Marbury, John S.

Stanley, J. Eugene O'Donnell, Lance M. Henning, SEMATECH Technology

Transfer Report 95123039A-TR (1995).

"Observing Industrial Atmospheric Environments by FT-IR," W. G. Fateley,

R. M. Hammaker, M. D. Tucker, M. R. Witkowski. C. T. Chaffin, T. L.

Marshall, M. Davis, M. J. Thomas, J. Arello, J. L. Hudson, and B. J.

Fairless, Journal of Molecular Structure, 347, 153-168 (1995).

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