Timothy Scott Coley
PO Box ***
Jamestown, New Mexico 87347
***.*****.**@*****.***
Phone: 505-***-****
Objective
Take on new laboratory and leadership challenges.
Education
**** - *998 New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
Minor in Math
Professional experience
2007-2015 Western Refining Gallup, New Mexico
Laboratory Supervisor
Responsibilities
Assure the quality of our finished gasoline, diesel, LPGs, and fuel oil.
Maintain safe operation of the laboratory.
Supervise a team of nine laboratory personnel.
Acted as liaison with Environmental, Technical Services, Operations and Maintenance Departments as well as other refineries and corporate offices.
Ensure the reliability of the laboratory by obtaining redundant equipment, maintaining and promoting consumables management philosophy, and instituting preventive maintenance plans.
Develop and implement new equipment, test methods and procedures.
Maintain the competency of the laboratory through ongoing training, proficiency testing, and internal and external laboratory audits.
Accomplishments
Turned a struggling quality program into competitive and respected operation. The professionalism and integrity of the laboratory have been demonstrated in performance of internal and external audits as well as the respect gained by both internal and external customers.
Greatly increased the safety of the laboratory by scrutinizing our HF acid test methods, improving instrumentation and installing new fume hoods and counters.
Implemented numerous methods including D3606 benzene, D5769 total aromatics, DHA, Lubricity, automated cloud and pour, oxidative stability and purge and trap gas chromatography.
Solved a lot of problems with instrumentation including coking in sulfur analyzers and valve plugging issues.
Improved data and record keeping and implemented Sample Manager as our Laboratory Information Management System.
Relocated a laboratory from our Yorktown, Virginia Refinery to Gallup, New Mexico.
2000-2007 Cardinal Health Albuquerque, New Mexico
Chemist
Perform Raw material and in-process testing on drug products in a cGMP environment.
Test a wide range of excipients and active ingredients used at a contract manufacturing facility.
Maintain and troubleshoot instruments.
Write SOP’s to conform to United States, European, and Japanese Pharmacopoeia.
Train or assist other analysts.
Perform process validations on new and existing products.
Perform routine monitoring of nitrogen, compressed air, and water systems.
Validate procedures.
1999-2000 Alamogordo Public Schools Alamogordo, New Mexico
Substitute Teacher
Instructed all subjects in grades six through twelve, in both long and short term positions where a permanent teacher was not available.
1999 Richardson Operating Co. Denver, Colorado
Switcher
Maintained and logged operation of natural gas compressors in Farmington and Largo Canyon, New Mexico.
1997 - 1998 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico
Teaching Assistant
Instructed Chemistry 110 and 211 Labs.
Responsible for demonstrating proper laboratory technique, troubleshooting laboratory procedures, assisting students with problems, and grading papers.
1996 - 1998 Clay Chemistry- Lab of Dr. Antonio Lara, New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico
Research Assistant
Study the capacity of clay binding of amino acids to modified clays for use in the separations of chiral compounds, particularly drugs.
Summer 1997 Chemistry Stockroom, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico
Stockroom Clerk
Prepared laboratories for experiments, and inventoried chemicals and equipment.
Summer 1996 Ross Rae Industrial Services, Inc. Bloomfield, New Mexico
Safety Assistant
In charge of waste cleanup of containment vessel at Conoco Gas Plant in Blanco, New Mexico. Assisted safety manager with right of way designation for El Paso Natural Gas pipeline construction project.
PO Box 815
Jamestown, NM 87347
PHONE 505-***-****