John Stuart Milne IV
Pasadena, MD 21122
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Scientific Experience
Director of Manufacturing, Moss, Inc.
Set and maintained production and bulk packaging for all substrate products.
Rewrote, streamlined, and converted production documentation to MS-excel.
QC of raw materials and finished products.
Taught production procedures and safety procedures.
Arranged continuous raw material supply for production schedules.
Set-up. Maintenance and operation of automated bottling equipment.
1999-2001
Director of Research and Development, Moss, Inc.
Developed two new products.
Improved stability of large volume product to keep it on the market.
Set up stability and shelf life experiments for current products.
Planned, purchased, and installed lab at new Moss facility.
1998 –1999
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, in the lab of Dr. S. W. Englander.
Chemical modification and separation of cytochrome c mutants.
Stability and folding experiments on cytochrome c mutants.
1996 –1998
Staff Scientist, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, in the lab of Dr. S. W. Englander.
Completed thesis related experiments and prepared publications.
1986 –1995
Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, in the lab of Dr. S. W. Englander.
Used the techniques of hydrogen exchange and NMR to study protein stability and dynamics.
Gained experience in: NMR, CD, UV/Vis Spectroscopy, Computer Modeling, Peptide Modification, HPLC, and FPLC.
Supervised research projects of students in the lab.
System administrator of a micro Vax II computer system.
Taught laboratory and computer analysis to new members of the lab.
John Stuart Milne IV
1985 - 1986
Research Technician, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, under the supervision of Dr. H. Roder.
Wrote a software package to synthesize, fit, and measure kinetics of 1D NMR spectra in the Asyst programing language.
Started work on what would become my graduate research.
1983 - 1985
Student Trainee, United States Department of Agriculture, Eastern Regional Research Center, in the lab of Dr. E. M. Brown.
Learned the essentials of protein chemistry, spectroscopy, and data analysis, working chiefly with milk proteins.
Gained experience in: circular dichroism, fluorescence: absorption, emission, and lifetime measurements, liquid chromatography, computer analysis, and protein secondary structure prediction.
Wrote a graphical output program in HPGL and fine tuned a protein secondary structure prediction program.
June 1984 - September 1984
Independent Research, Drexel University, Department of Chemistry, in the lab of
Dr. A. Addison.
Circular dichroism measurements on heme compounds.
Education
Ph. D. - 1995 University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Professor S. Walter Englander, thesis advisor.
Thesis Title - Structure and Dynamics of Cytochrome c Measured by Hydrogen Exchange and 2D NMR.
B. S. - 1986 Drexel University, Department of Chemistry.
Other Experience
Montco Business Forms, Ambler, PA. 1981 - 1984
News Carrier, Philadelphia Bulletin. 1975 - 1981
Memberships
American Chemical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Countries Visited
Morocco, Thailand, Vietnam, Bhutan, India, Germany, Lithuania, Greece, Italy, Spain, Guatemala, Canada, Mexico, Denmark