Experience

Boston Analytical

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Scientist

  • Feb 2022 - Present

  Conducts quantitative and qualitative analysis of pharmaceutical products following FDA, cGMP, and Boston Analytical guidelines. Duties include development, validation, and/or transfer of analytical procedures and methods. Other responsibilities include SOP writing and training others on proper instrument use and maintenance. Techniques include but are not limited U/HPLC, FTIR, UV-Vis, dissolution, Raman, Colorimetry, and detectors include but not limited to UV, PDA, RI, ELSD, and CAD. Generates protocols, methods, and reports for method development, validation, and transfer. Works with the customer to keep them apprised of updates through video conferencing and written updates. Show less

• Scientist II

  • Jan 2021 - Feb 2022



University at Buffalo

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Doctoral Student

  • Aug 2015 - May 2020

  Dissertation title: The synthesis and characterization of organometallic and inorganic manganese and iron complexes; probing structural and electronic effects on reactivity.Project: Synthesis, characterization, and electron transfer studies of non-heme manganese and iron complexes. Synthesized and characterized a series of tris(N-arylacetamide) metal complexes using manganese and iron. Determined the mechanism of electron transfer during compound reaction with molecular oxygen. Project: Potassium doped polyromantic-hydrocarbon magnetic materials. Collaborated with Dr. Shenqiang Ren at the University at Buffalo to investigate the vibrational and magnetic properties of potassium doped polyromantic-hydrocarbons. Project: Synthesis, characterization, and reactivity of biscyclopentadienide manganese(II) adducts.Synthesized novel biscyclopentadienide manganese(II) adducts with pyridine and polypyridine ligands. Characterized these air and moisture sensitive complexes using UV-Vis, FT-IR, single crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD), elemental analysis, Evan’smethod, electron paramagnetic resonance, and performed electrochemical comparison to other biscyclopentadienide manganese(II) adducts. Conducted analyses which showed that pure steric bulk of the coordinating ligand correlates with the shift in coordination of the biscyclopentadienide rings. Project: Physical and computational analysis of an organomanganese tetramer. Conducted a mechanistic investigation of hydrogen production using radical traps and electron paramagnetic resonance. Performed a computational analysis of the electronic properties of an organomanganese cluster. Show less

• Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2015 - May 2020

  Recipient of the 2019 UB Department of Chemistry Mattern Tyler Teaching Award. Instructed students in General Chemistry 101 and 102 laboratory courses; prepared weekly material for recitation of coursework and graded assignments.



Rochester Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Instrumentation Technician

  • Dec 2011 - May 2015

  I assisted in the maintenance of the Chemical instrumentation for the College of Science Chemistry and Materials Science Department. I perform outside analytical testing of samples on a variety of instruments. Other duties included; to assist in preparation of instrument SOP's, proper training on said instrumentation, maintenance of safe laboratory environment, and troubleshooting of instrument malfunction. Instruments included UV-VIS, IR, GC-MS, LC-MS, HPLC, TGA, DSC, and NMR spectrometers.

• Research Assistant

  • Sep 2013 - May 2014

  Characterized inorganic salts through thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) to find transition temperatures; characterized samples via EPR to detect how curing affected the magnetic properties for low frequency electron paramagnetic resonance (LFEPR). The goal of the project was to apply these techniques and the instrument for the analysis of cultural heritage artifacts.

• Analytical Chemist, USDA Plant Virus Survey Laboratory

  • May 2012 - Aug 2012

  Performed large scale processing and analysis of leaf samples using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) as a diagnostic test for the USDA.