Resume

• 08668873

  Method and apparatus for extraction

  detection

  and characterization of vapors from explosives

  taggants in explosives

  controlled substances

  and biohazards

• 2001

  PhD

  Forensic Chemistry - Arson and Explosives (MS/MS

  SPME

  and IMS)

  Florida International University

• 1997

  BS

  Forensic Chemistry

• Organic Chemistry

  NMR

  Raman

  Chromatography

  Gas Chromatography

  Evidence

  FTIR

  UV/Vis

  Analytical Chemistry

  Microscopy

  Forensic Analysis

  Spectroscopy

  LC-MS

  Expert Witness

  Forensic Chemistry

  GC-MS

  HPLC

  Mass Spectrometry

  NMR spectroscopy

  Chemistry

  Perr

  Drug Enforcement Administration

  Touro College

  Florida International University

  Sterling

  Virginia

  United States

  Lean Six Sigma Black Belt\nProvide expert testimony

  Group Supervisor

  Drug Enforcement Administration

  Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

  Taught undergraduate general and organic chemistry

  Adjunct Faculty

  Touro College

  Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

  CHS 3501 Survey of Forensic Science

  CHS 4503 Forensic Science

  CHS 5542 Forensic Chemistry

  Adjunct Faculty

  Florida International University

  An improved method of extraction

  detection

  and characterization of a vapor from an explosive

  a taggant in an explosive

  a controlled substance

  a biohazard

  and mixtures thereof uses a new and improved SPME device for extraction and ion mobility spectrometry for detection and characterization. The new and improved SPME device has an increased capacity to sorb a target vapor. The increased sorption of vapor provides for more accurate detection by an ion mobility spectrometer. A SPME device having increased surface area may be exposed to an atmosphere in an enclosure containing a test object or a volume of gas that was in contact with the test object to allow for sorption of the target vapor and then introduced into an IMS for more accurate detection and characterization of the vapor due to the increased sorption of the vapor by the SPME device described herein.

  USPTO