JOHN MILNER

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

20+ years of experience in laboratories handling quality control issues, instrumental analysis, physical properties testing, and all aspects of wet chemistry.

Highly familiar with many different types of lab equipment.

Proficient with chemicals processing ranging in scale from bench top reactions to production in 100 gallon reactors.

Experienced with chemicals storage, blending and transloading of bulk chemicals in quantities up to and including 500,000 gallon tanks.

Excellent communication and computer skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

January 2021-March 2021

Amazon.com

Warehouse Associate

October 2019-January 2020

UPS

Driver Helper

May 2018-May 2019

Hunter International/Dupont Experimental Station, Wilmington, DE

Research Technician

Ran pilot plant experiments related to optimizing catalyst performance in refinery operations.

Ran analytical tests including sulfur content, and sulfur speciation by GC-MS.

February 2014-November 2017

Abington Reldan Metals, Morrisville, PA

Production Chemist

Utilized a variety of processes to reclaim precious metals, i.e. Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium from a variety of base metal substrates including aluminum and stainless steel.

Processed silver from heavy industrial equipment, particularly from shield kits supplied by manufacturers of industrial scale float glass using nitric acid – the silver nitrate to silver chloride to elemental silver process.

Processed gold from jewelry and heavy industrial equipment, particularly shield kits from manufacturers of semiconductors using the aqua regia – urea/sulfur dioxide process.

January 2011-December 2013

Soma Labs, Middlesex, NJ

Quality Control Chemist

In charge of releasing incoming raw materials for use in finished vitamin products in a GMP environment.

Analyzing raw materials using techniques including FT-NIR, UV-Vis, and wet chemistry methods including a variety of titrations.

Analyzing finished products (tablets and capsules) for physical properties including hardness, thickness, disintegration time and friability.

August 1998-December 2010

Innospec Fuel Specialties LLC, Newark, DE

Analytical Chemist

Managed the work of 3-5 assisting lab techs, whose work consisted of running the standard ASTM petroleum test methods which are essential to the day to day operations of a petroleum laboratory.

Developed and wrote internal analytical methods.

Managed special projects such as lab work related to new product registration in various countries.

Served as liaison to the supply chain department, providing technical assistance needed for the manufacture of finished products, including preparation of product blending instructions and at times communicating directly with the company’s manufacturing sites.

Prepared and managed Finished Product Specifications and Certificates of Analysis for the company product line.

Audited Innospec Fuel Specialties’ toll manufacturing facility in Crosby, Texas, where oil soluble detergent and lubricity improver polymers were manufactured.

Expert familiarity with various Metrohm titrators and the Metrohm Rancimat tester for the stability of biodiesel.

Set up and validated Metrohm acid number and base number titrators.

Set up and validated Metrohm volumetric and coulometric Karl Fischer titrators.

Set up special titration applications on Metrohm titrators including tests for mercaptans, chlorides, and peroxides.

Maintained and calibrated Sindie ASTM D7039 Sulfur Analyzer.

Used Waters HPLC system to quantify Dinonylnaphthylsulfonic Acid (DINNSA) in jet fuel in order to determine total static dissipater concentration in that particular fuel. Used Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) cartridges to remove other additive package components that interfered with the quantification of DINNSA. Calculations and quantification performed using the Waters Empower software.

Maintained and calibrated two Agilent 6850 Gas Chromatographs used for testing of fuel ethanol, diesel fuel and jet fuel.

Characterized polymers via Gel Permeation Chromatography using Waters Alliance separation system (GPC/HPLC) with Empower software.

January 1997-August 1998

Innospec Fuel Specialties LLC (formerly Octel America Inc.) Newark, DE

Chemical Analyst

Performed all of the routine analytical work and wet chemistry

EDUCATION

University of Delaware, Newark, DE, Bachelor of Science in Chemistry.

SPECIAL SKILLS

Instrumental experience includes GC, HPLC, GPC, FT-IR and FT-NIR, UV-Vis, TGA, DSC, and Rancimat.

A focused individual with the ability to make difficult decisions under pressure.

Expert familiarity with the ASTM Petroleum test methods.

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