Scientist, Chemist

Kevin R. Lankford

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Terre Haute, IN 47802

812-***-**** *****@******.****.***

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Objective: To obtain a position with a company that will expand my professional growth and utilizes my master’s degree in chemistry with an emphasis in analytical and organic chemistry.

Technical Skills

• Gas Chromatography (GC) with multiple hyphenated techniques: FID, PID, ECD, and MS

• Ion Chromatography (IC)

• High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy

• Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy

Education

• Aug. 2008 – Aug. 2010 Department of Chemistry, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN

Master’s thesis in chemistry with an emphasis on design and organic synthesis of potential HIV protease inhibitors

• May 2004 – May 2008 Department of Chemistry, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN

Bachelors of Science in ACS approved Professional Chemistry with a minor in mathematics

Experiences

• Analyst at Environmental Certification Labs performing sample preparation and analysis following EPA protocol

• Adjunct teaching positions and Graduate Teaching Assistantship in general chemistry and upper level organic labs

• Served as Assistant Team Leader in the NSF funded 2008 STEPMT summer research program involving the conversion of biomass-derived feedstocks to valuable fuels and chemicals

Awards

• Dr. Dan D. Scott Scholarship

• J. E. Wiser Graduate Scholarship Award 2008-2009 and 2009-2010

• S-STEM Scholarship 2009-2010

• Department of Chemistry Research Award 2010

Publication and Presentations

• B. G. Ooi, K. R. Lankford “Strategy for adapting wine yeast for bioethanol production” Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2009, 10, 385-394

• Poster presentations at the 236th ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia, PA in August 2008 and 239th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA in March, 2010

• Tennessee Academy of Science Meeting in Gallatin, TN in November 2007, and Scholars’ Week at MTSU, TN in April 2008 and March 2010

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