Eliot's Résumés - Chemistry

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING LAB,
San Diego, California

9/2002 - Present

Lab Technician
Water, wastewater, soil and additional testing applying EPA approved and independently certified analysis while maintaining Quality Assurance and Quality Control under numerous strict deadlines. Experience includes wide variety of wet lab techniques, like titration, digestions and distillation, and instrumental techniques, such as auto-analyzers, IC and GC/MS. Some of the measurements taken include:

	Kjeldahl (to 0.1 ppm),
	Ammonia (to 0.1 ppm),
	Processing for Title 22 (EPA 3050),
	Mercury (to 0.02 ppm),
	Grease and Oils/Petroleum Hydrocarbons (0.1 ppm),
	Chemical Oxygen Demand,
	Biological Oxygen Demand,
	Total Organic Carbon,
	Solids - Dissolved, Suspended or Volatile,
	Salinity/Specific Conductance,
	Alkalinity,
	Hardness, and
	pH

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY (SDSU), DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, San Diego, California

5/1997 - 8/2002

Lead Research Associate
Directed, trained and supervised research team for electroanalytical research group that required the merging of:

	Chemical
	Mathematical
	Instrumental
	Technological
	Communication
	Training
	Team building and
	Managerial skills

while continuing personal research responsibilities.

Personal research accomplishments include:

	Increased sensitivity of digital CV process by 30% by using analog/digital process.
	Developed more reliable analog internal resistance technique over digital process.
	Increased sensitivity of infrared process by 50% through instrumentation and cell design.
	More than doubled the number of types of experiments readily available.
	Increased complexity of experiments to enhance scope and reproducibility of research.
	Awarded a research internship, 8/1998–5/1999.

Areas of research include:

Electrochemistry-

	Organic cyclophane/aromatic and organic hydrogen-bonding binder/receptor systems including construction of common and specialized electrodes.
	Developed methodology for the determination of thermodynamic and kinetic information through digital simulation and statistical fitting of experimental results for binder/receptor systems.
	Developed Fourier-Transform infrared (FTIR) optically transparent thin-layer electrode (OTTLE) spectroelectrochemistry cell for simultaneous infrared and electrochemical experimentation by cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry.
	Studied organometallic systems with electroactive ligands.

Computational Chemistry-

	Utilized Gaussian, Spartan, CAChe and other software packages on SGI, PC, and Mac systems and the San Diego Supercomputer Center Crays.
	Explained, resolved or predicted results of electrochemistry research using ab initio, semi-empirical and customized configurations and techniques.
	Designed, developed and programmed electrochemistry software specific to research needs.

Analytical Techniques-

Effectively utilized predominantly Cyclic Voltammetry (CV), Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR), and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) techniques.

Organic Synthesis-

Applied standard and Schlenk techniques in the design and replication of large, organic electroactive molecules.

SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY (SDSU), DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, San Diego, California
Research Associate

8/1993 - 5/1997

	Designed and constructed new equipment or adapted existing equipment to meet research needs.
	Developed techniques and implemented plans to resolve research issues.
	Refined research strategies to explain results to achieve short-term and long-term goals.
	Developed new goals based on unexpected reproducible results.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, Portland, Maine
Undergraduate Research Assistant

9/1989 - 5/1992

Analytical Research - Primary responsibilities included

	Standardizing acid, base and other solutions in large quantities
	Exposing DNA samples to Chromium and then determining amount of Chromium adhered to DNA sample

Synthesis of Carbon/Silicon chains

	Chains are links between porphrins to create a cage to align empty d-z² orbitals in Titanium
	Developed synthesis technique under inert atmosphere with functional group protection

BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY,
Upton, New York
Research Fellow

5/1991 - 9/1991

Nuclear Chemistry research involving

	Isotopic abundances
	Activation radiation
	Nuclear Power production
	Isotopic labeling