Resume

• 2013

  A client needed specific (hard-to-find) information on the market for a specialty chemical in Latin America to determine if the company should expand operations into Latin America.\nI researched the market using internal databases

  individual country statistic sites

  and a United Nations database.\nI was able to find the data and provide an assessment of the Latin American market. The client was happy and able to proceed with the assessment.

• 2012

  MSBAPM

  Business Analytics & Project Management

  The University of Connecticut School of Business

• 2009

  Companies need to comply with federal regulations before chemical substances are entered into commerce. \nCompanies contact me to provide assistance in compliance with the TSCA regulation.\nI provide assistance through reviewing records or oral conversations and teaching clients how to comply.\nAfter the review the companies better understand their compliance needs and have better controls in place.

  Chemical Hygiene Officer

  National Registry of Certified Chemists

• 2005

  My adviser had a research request from a company.\nThe goal was to modify the surface of a material according to the company's specifications. (It was a government restricted project so information was need-to-know.)\nI researched different methods and performed the research according to the company's specifications.\nThe research was successful and resulted in follow-on $25

  000 in funding.

• 2001

  Successful deposition of manganese based lines had been developed.\nI wanted to investigate the potential for depositing non-manganese-based lines.\nI researched different methods and performed the needed lab work to find a creative method.\nAfter four years...Lines were deposited using a variety of materials along with a publication in a peer-reviewed journal.

  Calvert

  PhD

  MS-BAPM

  CHO

  Craig

  Calvert

  PhD

  MS-BAPM

  CHO

  University of Connecticut School of Business

  Nerac

  University of Connecticut School of Business

  Milestone

  Miller Forensic Consulting

  LLC

  University of Connecticut

  Fuss & O'Neill

  EnviroScience

  Electric Boat

  Center for Environmental Science and Engineering

  Modified existing procedure to align with project requirements and performed analysis.

  Environmental Researcher

  University of Connecticut

  New London

  CT

  Taught basic communication and clear writing principles.

  Instructor for New Hire Communication Class- part time

  Electric Boat

  Miller Forensic Consulting

  LLC provides scientific support for complex litigation and insurance claims. Our area of expertise is in environmental science hydrogeology

  engineering and in the field of toxicology and chemistry.\nExpertise: Chemistry

  Chemical Safety

  Hazard Materials Management

  Environmental Chemistry

  Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)

  Food Safety

  Training

  Miller Forensic Consulting

  LLC

  University of Connecticut School of Business

  Storrs

  CT

  Teaching in the Operations and Information Management department supporting the Manufacturing and Engineering for Manufacturing (MEM) program and the analytics program.

  Professor-in-Residence

  New London/Norwich

  Connecticut Area

  Responsibilities include managing the progress of a group of special government contracts worth over $300 million dollars and developing the associated database. Other responsibilities have included special project management and facilitation along with safety reviews. \n• Lead for VPM vendor order contracts totaling over $300 million \no Responsible for timely execution and facilitating the order process \no Developed analytics used at program and executive levels within EB \n• Monitor manning levels and develop corrective actions with deficient departments \n• Support the ILS group in execution of VPM activities \n• Develop and manage the VPM Knowledge Management (KM) site with the KM group

  Program Representative

  Electric Boat

  •\tResearch Assistant\n- Designed research projects

  performed experiments

  published papers

  and presented results\n-\tAnalyzed current technology to find new publishable and/or patentable materials to develop\n---\tPresented progress results regularly at research group meetings\n-\tWorked with industry partners to develop materials for products\n\n•\tTeaching Assistant\n-\t5+ years’ experience teaching undergraduate chemistry courses\n- Taught course materials

  organized class group activities

  assessed students

  and supervised lab activities \n\n•\tSafety Manager for 20+ Person Research Group\n-\tMaintained all aspects of chemical safety – inspections

  inventory

  violations

  and group presentations\n\n•\tResearch Supervisor\n-\tManaged all research activities

  data review

  and training for 10 undergraduate researchers

  University of Connecticut

  Nerac

  Tolland

  CT

  Acted as a trusted business adviser for chemical companies through providing technical and business information.\n\n•\tBusiness Consulting & Project Management \n- Led market research and technical review projects\n- Presented and discussed results with companies to help them meet business goals\n\n•\tBusiness Analytics\n- Performed analytics on in-house data to improve understanding of the sales contact process

  Analyst

  Managed

  Developed

  and Marketed an array of projects in Chemical Safety

  Hazardous Materials

  and Applied Science for environmental and engineering consulting firm.\n\n•\tConsulting\n- Provided chemistry and chemical safety expertise to clients\n- Acted as internal chemistry expert for firm of 250+ engineers and scientists\n\n•\tResearch Program Management\n- Directed all aspects of a $659

  000 program from idea generation to billing with executive oversight\n- Obtained $364

  000 from proposals I prepared through academic and external collaborations\n- Built network with universities for research collaborations\n- Research Areas: Metal oxide membrane synthesis

  Microbial fuel cell cathode

  Metal oxide catalyst synthesis

  PCB remediation from building materials

  and Water filtration\n\n•\tBusiness Development\n- $200

  000+ in new revenue from new service developed by identifying a new market segment\n-\tExpanded existing revenue streams by adding 6 new successful services\n-\tInitiated and produced regular newsletters to gain new customers and promote services to current customers\n-\tConstructed website to promote new service\n\n•\tProject Management\n-\tResponsible for customer interactions from proposal to invoice\n-\tManaged 30+ contracts for school safety services training programs – public and private K-12

  Fuss & O'Neill

  EnviroScience

  Electric Boat

  Groton

  CT

  Supported submarine construction programs through environmental and confined space sampling and analysis. Reviewed work areas that required hot work (welding

  grinding

  etc...).\n\nAdditional duties included water testing.\n\nTrained as OSHA competent person and certified as a radiation worker.

  Analytical Chemist

  An Adjunct Professor in the University of Connecticut (UConn) School of Business in the Operation and Information Management (OPIM) department. Teaches a junior and senior level course on the principles of project management and a graduate class on project cost and risk management. \n• Introduction to Project Management – OPIM 3801 \n• Cost and Risk Management – OPIM 5668\n• Data Visualization – OPIM 4895

  University of Connecticut School of Business

• 2000

  PhD

  Thesis: \n\"Design

  Synthesis

  and Characterization of Materials for Controlled Line Deposition

  Environmental Remediation

  and Doping of Porous Manganese Oxide Material.\"\n\nAdvisor: Steven L. Suib\n\nAwards:\n• Advanced Graduate Student Fellowship\n• Chemistry Zeolite Crystal Fellowship\n_

  Inorganic Materials Chemistry

  Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer – Graduate Senate; managed budget and allocations over $120

  000; Summer Softball

  The University of Connecticut

  -\tBusiness Decision Modeling

  Excel based

  PSMJ Project Management Bootcamp

  -\tProject Leadership and Communications

  -\tPredictive Modeling

  -\tIntroduction to Project Management

  -\tBusiness Process Modeling and Data Management

  OSHA Laboratory Standard

  Project Management

  Business Analytics

  OSHA Confined Space

  -\tOperations Management

  --- MSBAPM CLASSES ---

  Chemical Reactivity Hazards

  -\tNegotiation Strategies

  -\tManaging Organizations

  Electives

  -\tAdvanced Project Management

  -\tData Mining and Business Intelligence

• 1996

  American Chemical Society

  English

  Omicron Delta Kappa National Collegiate Honor Society for Leadership

  Eagle Scout

  Boy Scouts of America

  Chemistry Zeolite Crystal Fellowship

  Advanced Graduate Student Fellowship

  BA

  Honors Thesis/Independent Study Project:\n\"Microwave Assisted Organic Chemistry\"\n\nResearch Experience for Undergraduate (REU)

  UConn 99:\n\"Oxidation of Cyclohexanol to Cyclohexanone with Zeolites\"\n_

  Chemistry

  •Honors Program

  •Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity

  •Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) Leadership Society

  •Student Affiliate of the American Chemical Society (SAACS)

  -President and Treasurer

  •Student Senate

  -Finance Chair

  •College Bowl (team trivia)

  •Student Activities Board

  •Karate

  •Hotdog Day Committee

  Jobs\n•Organic Chemistry Tutor

  •Teaching Assistant - Organic Chemistry Lab

  •Resident Assitant

  •Admissions Mail Assistant

  Alfred University

• 000

  Product Specialist

  Sales

  Marketing

  Customer Support

  & Technical Support Experience\n\n•\tSales\n-\tSales and technical authority for products under area of responsibility for entire USA\n---\t$1

  000+ in sales interactions over 9 month period\n---\tActed as primary salesperson in open territories\n\n•\tTechnical\n-\tResearched microwave synthesis

  digestion

  and extraction methods for analyses and feasibility tests\n\n•\tManagement\n-\tOversaw sales team’s activities with national sales manager\n-\tSupported sales team through on-site or web-based product demonstrations

  conference calls

  and product presentations\n-\tManaged recall and reissue process for a recently introduced product\n-\tProvided customer support through training

  service repairs

  and complaint resolution\n\n•\tBusiness Development\n-\tInvolved in the development and introduction of a new product \n\n•\tMarketing\n-\tDeveloped and drove marketing efforts in collaboration with the marketing department\n---\tOver $200

  000 increase in sales in a product over previous 6 months\n-\tConducted product training for sales personnel on positioning and competitive strategies

  Milestone

  National Registry of Certified Chemists

  Identifies experts in operational and regulation issues related to laboratory and chemical safety.

  Certified Chemical Hygiene Officer (C-CHO)

• What is the MEM program?

  Don’t want to choose between an engineering degree and a business degree? You don’t have to: MEM offers the best of both! The program of MEM (Management & Engineering for Manufacturing) is an independent academic major that belongs to both the School...

  What is the MEM program?

  Analytics minor

  The minor is offered by the School of Business and School of Engineering. For more information

  contact the Office of Undergraduate Advising

  School of Business

  room 248

  or phone (860) 486-2315

  or the Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  Information Technology Engineering Building

  Room 250

  or phone (860) 486-3719.

  To receive a minor in Analytics

  a student must earn a C+ or better in each of four (4) 3 credit

  3000-4000 level (i) OPIM courses offered by the School...

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  MS Business Analytics and Project Management (MSBAPM)

  CVD

  Chemistry

  Heterogeneous Catalysis

  Hazardous Materials Management

  Chemical Safety

  Business Development

  FMEA

  Consulting

  Environmental

  CHO

  Catalysis

  Fuel cell catalyst

  Business Process Design

  Crystal Ball

  Food Safety

  Analytical Chemistry

  Chemical analysis

  Grant Writing

  Business Analytics

  Ceramic Coatings

  Synthesis

  Characterization

  and Rietveld Refinement of Tungsten-Framework-Doped Porous Manganese Oxide (K-OMS-2) Material

  Tungsten was successfully doped at 1 and 2 mol % tungsten into the K-OMS-2 framework. Sodium tungstate and tungsten pentabromide were used in a reflux synthesis preparation. The data collected from the characterization methods collectively affirm the substitution of tungsten into the K-OMS-2 framework. Conductivity measurements showed an increase in the resistivity. Conversion of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde had a conversion of 25% and 15% for the sodium tungstate and tungsten pentabromide

  respectively

  while retaining 100% selectivity. Properties such as the resistivity

  thermal stability

  and crystallinity of the material were altered depending on the amount and type of starting reactants used.

  Synthesis

  Characterization

  and Rietveld Refinement of Tungsten-Framework-Doped Porous Manganese Oxide (K-OMS-2) Material

  GOOGLE SCHOLAR PAGE

  An Initial Study into the use of Microwave Remediation of Hexachlorobenzene Treated Soil using Selected Oxidants and Coated Graphite Rods”

  Microwave remediation has become an established method to treat contaminated soils

  sediments

  and sludges. Chlorinated contaminants are of particular interest due to their widespread industrial use in the past and current potential health hazards. Literature reports the use of microwave heating and oxidants for various reactions

  but no work could be found combining microwave heating

  persulfate

  and coated graphite rods for remediation of halogenated hydrocarbon treated soil. Therefore

  this research focused on combining microwave energy combined with oxidants

  potassium hydroxide and potassium persulfate

  and

  coated and uncoated

  graphite rods to remove hexachlorobenzene (HCB) from treated soil samples.

  An Initial Study into the use of Microwave Remediation of Hexachlorobenzene Treated Soil using Selected Oxidants and Coated Graphite Rods”

  Shanthakumar Sithambaram

  Linping Xu

  Chun-Hu Chen

  Yunshuang Ding

  Ranjit Kumar

  Craig Calvert and Steven L S

  Note: not lead author. Manganese octahedral molecular sieve (OMS) catalysts prepared by different methods have been employed for terminal ring opening of epoxides. Conversions ranging from 14% to 80% were obtained depending on the properties of the OMS catalysts. The catalysts act as Lewis acids in the reaction to facilitate nucleophilic attack on styrene oxide. Doping with other transition metals such as V

  W

  and Mo may alter the Lewis acidity of the materials and hence

  leads to significant enhancement in conversions (100%) and selectivities for the ring opening. Effects of different solvents and nucleophiles were also studied in the reaction. This process using OMS catalysts is environmentally friendly and the catalysts can be reused without loss of activity.

  Manganese Octahedral Molecular Sieve Catalysts for Selective Styrene Oxide Ring Opening

  Steven L. Suib

  Kelly A. Burke

  A simple one-pot method was developed to deposit discreet nanometer line formations on silicon substrates without any surface pretreatment starting with vanadium pentoxide sol−gels. These vanadium suspensions were made by hydrolyzing amorphous V2O5 in water. The properties of the vanadium clusters were determined through X-ray diffraction

  elemental analyses

  pH calculations

  and concentration calculations. Morphology of the lines was examined with optical microscopy

  atomic force microcoscopy

  and scanning electron microscopy. Infrared spectroscopy was used to inspect the organic components. The vanadium sol−gel used formed discreet and regular lines with high reproducibility and on the same order of magnitude as other patterning techniques. Previous research with a low solubility

  8 g/L

  metal oxide for line

  ring

  or helix formation has not been found in the literature; this work could lead to novel applications of metal oxides such as porous catalysts

  battery materials

  and resistive electronic materials.

  Spontaneous and Self-Assembled Line Formations on Silicon Substrates with Vanadium Pentoxide Sol−Gels

  My company used Salesforce.com but had not setup its dashboards to track the sales process.\nI took the initiative to develop the dashboards.\nI learned how to change and add dashparts to the dashboard and worked with the national sales manager to refine the dashboards.\nThe company had usable dashboards

  based on the product lines

  for the different product managers and sales team.

  Microwave Synthesis Instrument Sale

  A company was interested in purchasing one of our more expensive and complicated microwave synthesis instruments.\nWe wanted to work with the company through a process to obtain a a sale.\nThe salesman and I worked with the company to get the sale by introducing the product

  having me perform some trial syntheses in our lab

  and delivering an in-person technical sales presentation.\nWe won the sale and follow-up contact with the company showed that they were happy with the instrument and that it met the need as we said it would.

  Food Sanitation Training

  A seafood company contacted our company to perform food sanitation training.\nThe course was to provide a 2-day training course to review the hazards that affect food in a processing facility for the facility sanitarians.\nI developed a course by learning the background material and becoming HACCP certified.\nThe course was so successful that a 4-hour course was developed and given to all the facility workers along with follow-up training in subsequent years.

  Electricity from Low Flow Water Systems in Wastewater Treatment Facilities

  A funding opportunity from New York State was identified for a product development project.\nA prototype turbine that produces electricity was to be funded to provide proof of use in a real-world situation.\nI prepared a proposal by working with our three other collaborators.\nThe $214

  000 proposal was awarded.

  Fuel Cell Cathode Design

  To fund our applied science program we use external government grants.\nA grant to the National Science Foundation was prepared and funded in collaboration with 2 UConn professors and a joint venture was developed with another company.\nI managed the $150

  000 grant preparation process

  administration

  and reporting duties.\nThe project was completed with some issues

  but it produced positive and useful scientific results.