Quality Control Technician
Resume:
GODFREY BARKER
East Orange, New Jersey, 07018
Job phone 732-***-****
Home phone 973-***-****
Cell phone 973-***-****
E- mail *************@*****.***
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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