Chris M. Knox

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360-***-****

Immediate Availability

Summary:

Chris has over 10 years of experience working in chemistry labs, handling, preparing, and testing soils, waters, and industrial products including hazardous chemicals and substances in compliance with EPA regulations and methodologies.

In depth knowledge of GMP facilities and operations

Years of hands on experience ensuring NELAC and ISO rules and guidelines are inline with our laboratory SOP’s

Writing Standard Operating Procedures for our laboratory, based on state and federal oversight documents

Development of in-house steps and procedures to improve our turn around times, getting our clients the data they needed in an industry-competitive timeframe

Improving our quality control methods year after year while staying compliant with oversight agencies

Hands-on experience with hazardous substances and the safety measures required in compliance with OSHA methods and guidelines.

Head or the laboratory Health and Safety Committee.

Supervisory experience with guiding and teaching small teams of junior chemists in the entire process of sample receiving/sample prep/sample extraction/extraction processing and loading of sample vials onto advanced chemistry testing instruments.

Expert knowledge and experience with analytical instrumentation involved in the testing for harmful and/or problematic compounds according to state and federal agencies, including daily instrument maintenance and repair, detailed and precise instrument troubleshooting and process/method development. Instruments include GCMS, GC-triple quad, HPLC, GC-TOF, ICPMS, and LCMS systems, among many others.

Skills:

Experience working in production line atmosphere

Forklift experience

Safe loading/unloading of bulk chemicals

Industrial waste disposal

Water systems

Completion of Agilent and Thermo training courses in instrumentation and instrument operation and repair

Extensive experience in various general computer programs (Excel, PowerPoint, Access, VPNs, Adobe, Outlook)

Data validation software, Laboratory Information Management Systems (various, including Python, SQL)

Education 1999-2006

Western Washington University – Bellingham, WA

Bachelor of Science: Biology

NCAA Division II Soccer (4 years)

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