Chris Thomas
Chemistry Manager at Bell Laboratories, Inc.- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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DOT Hazardous Materials Transportation
Bell Laboratories, Inc.Jun, 2023- Nov, 2024 -
Adult First Aid/CPR/AED
American Red CrossMar, 2023- Nov, 2024 -
Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER)
Compliace Solutions Occupational Trainers, Inc.Mar, 2023- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Bell Laboratories, Inc.
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United States
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Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chemistry Manager
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Mar 2016 - Present
• Replaced raw materials with more effective chemical reagents, modified the synthetic strategy to isolate different intermediates, and invoked tighter process controls, such as reaction conversion, pH checks, and water content measurement; increased yields and decreased process time for bromethalin, bromadiolone, and brodifacoum. • Directed the inaugural registration of a newly developed bromethalin process with EPA, planning the overall project for timelines and resources, approving R&D experiments, and compiling data; the report was accepted and utilized as a template for future chemical process registrations, including six new products/reformulations under GLP guidelines. • Secured new equipment and collaborated with upper-level management/QA/Production on method R&D, analyzing and coalescing data to show improvements made, supervising the PhD analytical chemist responsible for research and development of the QC analytical processes, and reviewing material lots from the production floor; increased the capability for the amount of processed QC samples per day by more than five times. Show less
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MilliporeSigma
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United States
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Biotechnology Research
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700 & Above Employee
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Product Manager
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Feb 2012 - Mar 2016
• Established a strong, transparent network with global academic labs for new product development despite bureaucratic delays, traveling to several universities in the US and Canada as part of a Lecture Series, and tempering the expectations of academic labs unfamiliar with commercialization; negotiated patent royalties, investment decisions, and technology exclusivity to achieve lower costs and less risk. • Established new product awareness into scientific literature, targeting much of the Pharma market, decreasing costs associated with ineffective advertisements; launched a web portal still in use on the MilliporeSigma website in 2012, featuring a catalog of academic collaborators and their available technology. • Managed product portfolios grossing more than $10M, facilitating revenue growth for specialized portfolios in the company’s chemistry sector through new product introductions with academic research labs; resolved many back-order situations and provided critical technical support. • Subject matter expert on the Scripps collaboration, commercializing the first product from Baran Research Group, timing its launch with the publication of research that included the product number and reference to Sigma-Aldrich; facilitated exceptional market reach through the academic publication, a novel route for future product launches. • Created a new position for PhD-level chemists to assist in creating marketing content alongside established academic collaborations, developing and mentoring new hires in product launches and business development. Show less
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Northwestern University – Scheidt Research Group
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Evanston, IL
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Jan 2011 - Feb 2012
• Conducted critical R&D of new chemical reactions for implementation in drug discovery, collaborating with a PhD at the University of Chicago who provided catalysts to screen in method development; completed the groundwork on a “Tandem Isomerization/Prins Strategy,” the springboard for a highly enantioselective Oxa-Pictet Spengler. • Collaborated in a publication with the CT-CMLD, synthesizing and transferring core scaffolds to colleagues in the Sergei Kozmin Group at the University of Chicago; the group synthesized several molecules from the scaffolds to screen for bioactivity. Show less
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Education
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The University of Kansas
Ph.D., Synthetic Organic Chemistry -
Northwest Missouri State University
B.S. (ACS Accredited), Chemistry
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