Resume

• 2011

  5th Generation Renewables

  Boston

  MA

  Teach undergraduate Chemistry and Physics. Interested in passive energy for the built environment and smart technology for the classroom.\nSki club advisor

  Faculty senate

  Sustainability committee.

  Physical Science Professor

  Wentworth Institute of Technology

  Everett

  MA

  Taught lecture and lab components of college preparatory chemistry for diverse junior class. Responsible for performance of inclusion students. Taught remedial biology MCAS preparation after school. Home tutored students in chemistry and math. Respected and well-liked by students

  parents/guardians

  and administrators.

  High School Chemistry Teacher

  Everett High School

  Revere

  MA

  Constructed custom frames. Laid foundations. Installed steel support beams. Contracted residential and commercial construction. Worked on technical aspects of machine shop. Designed windmill system for passive hydronic solar heating plan. Ran electrical wiring and connected low voltage DC circuits. Utilized carpentry

  steel

  soil testing

  foundation laying and finish work skills. Used sales knowledge

  managed allotted contracts.

  Owner

  Harney Enterprise

  The University of Massachusetts

  Boston Campus

  Taught freshman physics laboratory. Solely responsible for preparation

  lecturing

  and grading of two classes each semester

  and 40 students each summer. Attended weekly meetings relaying students' performances. Held weekly office hours for all freshman physics classes. Gained reputation from students as the teacher able to explain material simply and clearly.

  Teaching Assistant

  Physics Department

  Waltham

  MA

  Worked with team of biologists constructing three concept greenhouses. Roof polycarbonate customized to vary rainfall while maintaining incident solar radiation. Hydrostatic water lines were set to passively increase water intake for other test plots. Dug trenches to isolate each test plot from one another as well as from ambient climate. Variable thermal exposures were investigated on test plots mimicking global warming. Set up designed CO2 sensors to analyze biomass growth.

  Ecological Engineer

  Boston Area Climate Experiment

  High School

  Taught lecture and lab components of all levels of Chemistry. Responsible for performance of inclusion students. Created a new Green Technology course. Bio Club

  and track and field.

  Chemistry Teacher

  Pelham School District

  Attleboro

  Chemist responsible for industrial scale synthesis of high yield spec grade biodiesel from soy and waste vegetable oil. Esters are sold and distributed as B20 for domestic home heating oil. Reduced process time from eight to four days. Addressed waste water treatment and glycerol removal. Diaphragm and rotatory vein pumps used

  plumbing and heating maintained in the plant.

  Chemist

  5th Generation Renewables

  Boston

  MA

  Taught lecture and lab components of Engineering Chemistry

  Physics for Architects and General and Built Environment Chemistry. Co-designer of Conceptual Physics curriculum. Piloted an Engineering Chemistry lab aimed at giving students research experience testing quality of biodiesel. Collaborated at weekly faculty meetings. Mentored student lab assistants.

  Physical Science Professor

  Wentworth Institute of Technology

  The University of Massachusetts

  Boston Campus

  Design and synthesis of novel organic and inorganic based chromophoric systems for metal oxide sensitization in dye sensitized solar cells. Photo electrochemical studies of dye sensitized solar cells for incident to photon conversion efficiency (IPCE) measurements. Rhenium complexes investigated for carbon dioxide reduction and water oxidation. Characterization techniques including electrochemistry

  UV-Vis

  NMR

  and FTIR.

  Research Assistant

  Rochford Research Group

  The University of Massachusetts

  Boston Campus

  Responsible for qualitative analysis of current organic chemistry lectures. Taught 200 students each semester

  in groups of 20-40 at a time

  concept and qualitative analysis in preparation for exams and the standardized MCAT. Attended weekly meetings aimed at closing the grade gap between children of doctors and first generation college students.

  Organic Chemistry Instructor

  Biology Department

• 2009

  Masters

  Design and synthesis of novel organic and inorganic based chromophoric systems for metal oxide sensitization in dye sensitized solar cells. Photo electrochemical studies of dye sensitized solar cells for incident to photon conversion efficiency (IPCE) measurements. Rhenium complexes investigated for carbon dioxide reduction and water oxidation. Characterization techniques including electrochemistry

  UV-Vis

  NMR

  and FTIR.

  Applied Physics

  University of Massachusetts Boston

• 2003

  BS

  Attenuated Total Reflectance FTIR spectroscope used for characterization of materials’ structures and their interactions with various atmospheric molecules. Investigation held to understand sodium chloride and magnesium oxide and their ability to chemisorb in the atmosphere

  increasing global aerosol carrying capacities. Liquid nitrogen used to purify substrates

  and keep spectroscope cool. Vacuum pump used to vary pressure down to micro-Torr.

  Physics/Chemistry

  President of The Ski and Snowboard Society

  University of Massachusetts Boston

• Characterization

  UV/Vis

  Inorganic Materials

  Microsoft Office

  Nanofabrication

  Construction

  Research

  Physics

  Public Speaking

  Microsoft Excel

  Green Building

  Physical Chemistry

  Chemistry

  Green Technology

  Electrochemistry

  Organic Chemistry

  Chromatography

  Organic Synthesis

  Teaching

  Ecological Design

  Convergent  Synthesis of meso-Ferrocenyl Porphyrins for TiO2 Sensitization

  Dransfield T.

  Rochford J.

  Design and synthesis of novel chromophoric system for metal oxide sensitization in dye sensitized solar cells. Photo electrochemical studies of dye sensitized solar cells for incident to photon conversion efficiency (IPCE). Characterization techniques including electrochemistry

  UV-Vis

  NMR

  and FTIR.

  Convergent  Synthesis of meso-Ferrocenyl Porphyrins for TiO2 Sensitization

  Jonathan Rochford

  Ming Kang-Tsai

  Biprajit Sarkar

  David Schweinfurth

  Yu-Ting Huang

  Helen C. Zhao

  Tuning oxyquinolate non-innocence at the ruthenium polypyridyl core

  Grätzel M.

  Nazeeruddin Md. K.

  Yum J.-H.

  Tsai M.-K.

  Huang Y.-P.

  Zhao C.

  Rochford J.

  Synthesis of oxyquinolate ligands for attachment to ruthenium complexes. Electrochemical

  and theoretical analyses indicate molecular orbital overlap due to degenerate Ru d(π) and OQN p(π) mixing. Spectroscopic properties compared to the N3 dye.

  Evaluation of a Ruthenium Oxyquinolate Architecture for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

  Joseph P.

  Harney

  Physics Department

  Wentworth Institute of Technology

  Rochford Research Group

  Boston Area Climate Experiment

  Harney Enterprise

  Biology Department

  Pelham School District

  Everett High School

  Wentworth Institute of Technology