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SKILLS:
•MATLAB 5.3, 7.0 / SIMULINK, ASPEN, EXCEL, SAP, LIMS, Chem Cad, Cad Table, MS Suite, P&ID, PFD
•EH&S, clean room; 7&8, 100, 1000, AS9300, ISO13485, ISO9001/14001
•Quality Control Coordinator; Six Sigma, SOP, SPC, RCA, FMEA, PCA (Monte Carlo model) audits, GLP, cGMP, CE, SST, LOQ, Method Development, Mammalian cell, ELISA, SDS-PAGE-PCR,validation, Suspension, Adherant reactors
•TEM, SEM, XRD, MS, FTIR, HPLC/Karl-Fisher, SEC, MALS,
•HAZWOPER, NIOSH 582
EDUCATION:
University of Massachusetts, Lowell MA 2001: MSE Chemical Engineering; Thesis; Coating and chacterization of a GaN thick/thi-film on a 0001 sapphire substrate
Salem State College – Salem MA 1988: B.S. Geology with field camp
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
August 2020 to May 2024: ProScience/Aerobiology/Pace/Labs Industries
Woburn, MA: 22 Cummigs Park
•Analyst; Environmental, industrial samples for testing. Utilizing both electron and petrographic microscopy.
• QC all analyst analysis
•Instructed TEM prep and other lab tasks
•Compliance; HAZWOPER, NIOSH 582
April 2020 to August 2020; IBM Watson Research Center; Contract 4 months
Yorktown Heights, NY:
•Metals Process Engineer Associate, Metal and Dielectric Films;
•Utilize deposition tools for high/low temperature thin/thick-metal-film formulations
•Utilize pre-qualification tools before/after wafer fabrication
•minipulated current formulations for ideal depositions
•Clean room 100, PLC, Reactor Chemistry
June 2018 to October 2018: Shark Ninja: QC Contract; 5 months months
Needham Heights MA:
•QC Analyst (HPLC); traditional vs new vacuum blender for separations of vitamins and protiens from smoothies
• Set up and development of methods for a start up HPLC/Karl Fisher laboratory validation, SST, wrote SOP’s
• Trained individuals on; prep, functioning, and maintaining HPLC
September 2016 to May 2017: GE Healthcare, Westborough, MA: Contract; 9 months
•AS9300, Cleanroom RM 7&8 ASSO., QC, CAPA, FMEA, Risk management, CIP, SIP, CE, ISO13485; plug&flow process and packaging for disposable bioreactor with senors for gene sequencing
•BMR, Parts distribution, water distillation, packaging,warehouse transport from clean- room
September 2016 to June 2018; America Redcross Insctructore:
• Instructed Certification courses in; CPR, EHS and AED use
May 2015 to November 2015; Koch Membrane Systems:, Contract; 7 months
Wilmington, MA:
•Chemical engineer, Operations: Pilot test lab for dairy filtration process including quality testing, tracking utilizing; LIMS, Chem Cad ASPEN, P&ID, PFD,, MATLAB/SIMULINK and ISO- 9001/14001/, SOP, small batch plug and flow
•BMR, FMEA, floor work, packaging, CE, FDA, Mixing & testing polymer powder; low temperature glycerine formulations for coating on hollow nylon tubes
September 2006 to October 2011: Teranomics/Teradiagnostics
Manassas, VA:
•Analyst/Chemical Materials Engineer:
• Poly-lactic acid/glycol schemes and formulations for collioidal transport
• Characterization by; SEM, TEM, FT-IR, MS, UHPLC, HPLC-SEC, MALS, LC/MS,cGMP, Cleanroom; 5, 7, 8, 100, LIMS, Mammalian cell purification
•ELISA, SDS-Page, EP, PCR, UV/floressence, SST, method development, SOP, ISO13485, valadation
December 2004 to September 2005 Contract AMERI SCI
Wymouth MA
•QC/Analyst:
• QC, LIMS,BMR, materials testing, mineral characterization with Petrographic and
electron microscopy
September 2002 to June 2004: Quincy College
Quincy, MA
•Adjunct Faculty Instructor: College math, College algebra, Physical Science, General Chemistry II
September 2000 to June 2005: Department of Chemical & Nuclear Engineering Center forAdvanced Materials, UMass Lowell
•ResearchAssistant/Associate: Chrystal growth electro-Thin/thick-metal-films
•Utilized VLSI technology with TEM, SEM, AFM, XRD, and TGA for both internal and surface characterization. Other ceramic substrates used include SIC, Sapphire and ZnO substrates
• Sputtering thin-films on substrates and wet and dry etching
• Doping utilizing arsine, phospine and borane
•Software consisted of MS suite, MATLAB/SIMULINK, Aspen
•Developed polymer boudinless PET fibers with extrusion design formulations Utilizing self-assembly-of-molecules formulating dendrimers inducing transport.
•Distillation and fermentation for biodegradable films such as poly-lactic acid schemes for a lithium battery electrolyte. Instruments GC, MS, HPLC, developed new methods
• Initiated client lab demonstrations/presentations for potential new project and trained new staff on instrumentation and GLP protocols, such as SOP's & EH&S
2000 to 2003: Sensory Directorate (Photonics) Two Year, NSF Grant
Hanscom Air Force Base
Lincoln, MA
•Research and Development Thin/Thick-film formulations and analysis; start to finish processing and fabrication design of a GaN semiconductor on a sapphire, SiC and ZnO substrate using a template grown by a metal organic vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor; utilizing triethylgallium gas
• Developed Al-Ga/In-Al-GaN bridges by anealing with ammonia injection (creating holes) for nitridation of allium metal
•Thick-film deposited by the chemical vapor reaction process reactor (CVRP) by halide transport (Iodine). Utilized: TEM, SEM, AFM and XRD to conduct surface and cross sectional analysis, Qualifications; Surface Analyser & Ellipsometer
•Trained grad students on reactors and instrumentation protocols with SOP’s MATLAB /SIMULINK for thermal flow of substrates, and reactor vapor sublimation, FMEA
1988 to 1998 HYGIENETICS ENVIRONMENTAL Inc.
Boston, MA
•Staff Scientist II: Responsible for the overall management, operation and maintenance of the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) Laboratory including processing, testing AHERA, EPA, OSHA, NIOSH 582, ISO 9001/14001 and equipment maintenance
•Quality Control Coordinator – Maintained quality control,Compiled statistical database using MS Excel; chartered data, utilized a Cad Table, SOPs,GLP. Wrote monthly progress notes maintained MSDS files, performed both inter and intra lab proficiency testing and sample preparation
CONFERENCES:
American Association of Crystal Growth, Burlington, VT 8/15/01
Author and Presenter: TEM Characterization of Thick-Film Coating of GaN Epitaxy on (0001) Sapphire Substrate Templates Deposited by Halide Transport Process
Microscope & Microscopist, (M&M) San Francisco, CA 7/14/01
Author: TEM characterization of Thick-film Coating of GaN Epitaxy on (0001) Sapphire Substrate Templates Deposited by Halide Transport Process
American Ceramic Society, Indianapolis, IN, 4/24/01
Author: TEM Characterization of GaN Thin-Film Coating for a Template on a (0001) Sapphire Substrate surface by MOCVD utilizing Triethylgalium after being Nitridated with Ammonia and Heat Rampped producing GaNAl bridging