Alexander L. Peterson

Email: ac2c0x@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 763-***-****

WORK HISTORY

ULS United Locating Services June- December 2016

Utility Locator, marking underground utilities, Reading maps and prints, locating and marking utility lines

Volt @ 3M Cottage Grove, MN (Contract) August – October 2015

Pilot plant technician, Converting Development Center; Laser cutting of film products. Measuring of laser cut edges (Keyence VHX5000 digital optical microscope) & overall dimensions (microVue). Anything needed for small scale production and verification of cut film products.

World Wide Tech Services @ MN December 2013- July 2015

Field Service Technician, onsite computer hardware repair, mostly Dell warranty, receiving, tracking & returning parts.

Customer service, replacement of displays, hard drives, motherboards, memory, power supplies, case components, CPU's, optical drives, batteries & graphics cards. BIOS settings, driver installations, verification of functionality, some customer training

1st Choice Recycling Spencer, WI November 2012 – September 2013

Chemist, Investigated the viability of small scale chemical recovery and recycling of precious metals from catalytic converters and electronics. Leaching, selective precipitation, purification & quantitation, X-ray fluorescence. Worked in scrap yard, breaking down recyclables, buying materials, and everything else needed

Strom Engineering @ Crystal Sugar (Contract) September - December 2011

Assistant Chemist, raw material, in process, final product and wastewater testing to support production of sugar during labor dispute, sample preparation and testing to determine recoverable sugar content of beets, sugar content, sieve testing and non-sugar quantification in, in process samples. COD & filter testing of wastewater, final release testing of sugar & beet pulp product.

Honeywell Plymouth, MN (Started contract, converted) June 2006 – May 2009

Research Technician III Honeywell Labs Micro-devices

made & tested experimental devices, one process change gave over 100x sensitivity, translated scientists concepts into machinists’ material reality; electrochemical gas sensors, Zinc oxide nanowire arrays for solar cells and other nanomaterials, gas sensor test devices & air scrubber. Apparatus Used: gas mass flow controllers, clean room, FE-SEM, FTIR, MS, PH meters, chemical synthesis apparatus, wet chemistry, vertical mill & lathe, various electronic apparatus including A/D converters and digitizing oscilloscopes in custom data acquisition systems & LabView

LabSupport @ Banner Pharmacaps, High Point, NC; QC raw materials (contract) 2004

Test raw materials API & excipients, mostly USP tests, some internal test procedures; wet chemistry, HPLC, colorimetery, cGMP

PPG Industries, Oak Creek, WI; Quality Assurance Cationic Electrocoat 2000 – 2003

Test, apply and inspect cationic epoxy electrocoat material, GC, % non-volatile, acid / base titrations, pH, conductivity, particle size, viscosity, and visual inspection; ISO & Quality Systems 9000, production support

University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS Research & Teaching Assistant June 1998 –December 1999

Natural products, collection extraction, isolation (HPLC), purification (HPLC) and analysis of compounds from marine organisms & teaching chemistry labs

Abbott Laboratories (temp through Manpower) (multiple contracts) 1998

Clarithromycin project engineering: Engineering lab support: HPLC operation, training and maintenance, cGLP sample collection and handling. Operation of kilo lab & 40 l reactor for pilot plant runs, HPLC, GC & Karl Fisher operation; cGMP

SAR by NMR (protein NMR as a screening method): 1995-1997

Molecular Biology: Bacterial transformation and growth - Expression in E. coli and Pichia pastoris of milligram to gram quantities of recombinant isotopically labeled (15N, 13C, 2H) proteins for study by NMR using shaker flasks & fermentors

Protein Biochemistry: Purification and recycling of proteins expressed in E. coli. Techniques used included ammonium sulfate cuts, refolding, membrane filtration, SDS/PAGE and chromatography (HPLC, FPLC & gravity columns; affinity, ion exchange, silica, reverse phase; gel filtration media)

Compound Library Management: Prepared and managed a large library (>10,000) of small molecule solutions. Work included the use of a Silicon Graphics workstation (UNIX) with proprietary software, lab balances, manual & electronic air displacement pipettes

Sample Handling: Prepared protein samples for NMR (automated method on Gilson 215), collected NMR spectra, developed & implemented protocol for cleaning NMR tubes

General Lab Duties: Maintained stocks of common lab supplies & chemicals, prepared stock solutions, ordered supplies as needed, poured columns

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Arts - (Chemistry) Carthage College, Kenosha, WI May 1993

Patent “Gas Sensor Test And Calibration System” Inventors:Y. Gu, P. Tobias, A. Peterson, W. Yang Patent US 7,661,290 B2 (2010)

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