Experience

LGC Industrial

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Product Development Scientist

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Serve as technical lead on product development, liaising with 50+ 3rd-party labs to ensure all new products are certified with a robust and accurate pool of data, adhering to ISO 17034 guidelines and LGC’s internal stringent quality standardsAuthor and uphold maintenance calendar for new and existing instruments, saving $10K+/year and many hours by keeping instruments online, performing regular and unscheduled repairsTrain and supervise laboratory technicians in good laboratory practices (GLP), test methods, SOPs, sample preparation and instrumental analysis Liaise with product manager, marketing, sales, and customer service teams to provide technical details re: products, internal processes and capabilities to clients and shareholders SPECIAL PROJECTSNew Instrument Acquisitions | 2021-2022Added CS IR-analyzer, ONH-inert gas fusion, and Spark OES instruments to lab. Secured funding for new instrumentation by demonstrating a business case, gathering quotes, arranging instrument demos, and negotiating costs and accessories with instrument manufacturers. Wrote, validated, and trained others on test methods for new instrumentation.Powders Work Facility | 2021Launched ARMI|MBH’s powders processing facility, designed to introduce geologic, cements, ores and other powdered reference materials to ARMI|MBH’s suite of products. Instrumental in building out the facility, writing all SOP's and lab testing documents. Show less

• R&D Scientist- Metals and Geological

  • Jul 2020 - Sep 2021

  Managed relationships with 50+ 3rd-party testing labs, including but not limited to communications, budget negotiations, and results and performance review Reduced 3rd-party testing cost by over 20% while simultaneously improving data quality by engaging testing labs, preventing unnecessary testing, and focusing on the best test methodsAuthored and validated 5+ new test methods for internal testing as well as SOPs for subcontracting 3rd party testing, data collection and validation, and certification Show less



LGC Standards

• United Kingdom
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Product Development Chemist

  • 2018 - 2020

  Developed new digestion, leach, and sample prep methods for 200+ metal and geological samples for analysis by ICP-OES, ICP-MS, and WD-XRF, including Na2O2 sinters with acid digestion as well as lithium tetraborate fusions SPECIAL PROJECT ICP-OES Generator Repair | 2020 Successfully replaced a failed ICP-OES generator at the start of the COVID shutdown, coordinating remotely with a SPECTRO engineers to perform the necessary repairs, saving the lab from shutdown. Developed new digestion, leach, and sample prep methods for 200+ metal and geological samples for analysis by ICP-OES, ICP-MS, and WD-XRF, including Na2O2 sinters with acid digestion as well as lithium tetraborate fusions SPECIAL PROJECT ICP-OES Generator Repair | 2020 Successfully replaced a failed ICP-OES generator at the start of the COVID shutdown, coordinating remotely with a SPECTRO engineers to perform the necessary repairs, saving the lab from shutdown.



Binghamton University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Geochemistry Research Assistant

  • 2013 - 2015

  Installed microscope stepping stage and camera to build up the quantitative petrography lab, developed an in-house routine using GIMP and ImageJ to map minerals and trained graduate and undergraduate researchers in equipment use Installed microscope stepping stage and camera to build up the quantitative petrography lab, developed an in-house routine using GIMP and ImageJ to map minerals and trained graduate and undergraduate researchers in equipment use



Rutgers University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Petrology Laboratory Thin Section Technician

  • 2012 - 2012

  Ground, mounted, and polished thin sections of igneous rocks for analysis with petrographic microscope and electron microprobe

• Rutgers University Anthropology Technician

  • 2012 - 2012

  Separated samples and measured sample portions by grain size and in each grain size range

• REU Researcher in Rutgers Computational Biomedicine, Imaging, and Modeling Center

  • 2012 - 2012

  Recruited test subjects, prepared subjects for recording and constructed 3D models from recordings using Vicon Motion Capture System