From: dennis@pete.uucp (Dennis Peterson)
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Subject: Analytical chemist/Instrument development/application programmer
Date: 17 Dec 92 08:06:29 GMT
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I am looking for a position in chemical instrument development for in-house
or commercial use or other areas applying my analytical chemistry background
with computer applications.

____________Resume________

Dennis P. Peterson
5748 Barbara Dr.
Madison, WI 53711
(608) 273-4573

Summary of Experience


Analytical chemist with extensive instrumentation application/development experience.
Experience in integration and application of analytical chemistry instruments for 
problem solving, instrumentation development, chemometrics, laboratory computer data 
acquisition, robotics and on-line-process measurements/control systems.

1986 to 	Nicolet Instruments, Madison, Wisconsin
Present		A $130 million division of Thermo Electric Instruments producing a 
		diversified line of chemical, biomedical and test instruments.

		Sr. Software Engineer:  Primary software engineer for design, implementation,
		and testing of software, analytical method validation and integration of 
		hardware for FTIR commercial instrumentation.
		Instruments included: Oil analysis ($25,000 per unit with approximately
		300 sold worldwide); silicon wafer analysis ($100,000 per unit with
		approximately 150 sold world wide); automated gas analysis ($35,000 per
		unit with $3,000,000 US Navel order); and on-line and near-line 
		process measurements.

 		*  Provided engineering special software/hardware for customer support.
 		*  Performed customer training, sales and service support.

1984/ to	PPG Industries , Barberton Tech Center, Chemical Division, Barberton, Ohio
1986		A public-held $2 billion corporation producing a diverse range of chemical 
		products.

		Analytical Chemist:  System manager of lab wide chromatography data system 
		and office product software. 
		
		*  Worked with Zymark laboratory robot for automated analysis. 
		*  Provided instrumentation support to in-house chemist.

1979 to		Dow Chemical Research and Development Analytical Labs,  Midland, Michigan
1984		A $3 billion corporation producing chemical products.

   1981 to	Analytical chemist: Instrumental division, IR group:  Provided IR qualitative
   1984		and quantitative analysis service for analytical lab.
	 	Responsible for software and hardware design and development of an IR 
		spectrometer  and a portable mass spectrometer with data systems.
 		Provided support of various analytical instrument computer data systems 
		for special software and trouble shooting.

		*  Worked with instrument manufacturers on software/hardware problems.
		*  Provided system management of several DEC RSX 11/M systems used for
		   instrument control/data acquisition.

   1979		Analytical chemist, Agricultural Products Support Group: Developed analytical
		methods for monitoring production, waste treatment and trouble shooting
		production problems.  Techniques included:  gas, liquid and thin-layer 
		chromatography, IR and mass spectrometry and additional wet chemical methods.

1976 to		Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
1979
		Graduate  Research:  Developed a second derivative spectrometer using a
		vidicon (TV camera tube) detector with computer data acquisition and processing

		*  Teaching assistant for graduate chemistry electronics lab and 
		   undergraduate quantitative analysis lab.

1973 to		Wright State University, Department of Chemistry, Dayton, Ohio
1976
		Undergraduate Research:  Worked part-time and summers or research projects
		which include street drug analysis and high precision gas solubility 
		measurements.


Education
		Masters Degree - Analytical Chemistry
		Purdue University, - 1979
		Studies included: Advanced Analytical Chemistry; On-line Computer Techniques
		in Chemical Instrumentation; Introduction to Chemical Instrumentation; 
		Electroanalytical Methods; Linear Statistics; and Chromatographic Analysis.

		Bachelors Degree - Chemistry
		Wright State University, - 1976 
		Studies also included electronics, micro- and mini-computer programming and
		 environmental chemistry.

Special Skills
		Programming and system management experience with several different computers: 
	 	DEC 11 series computers, HP1000 systems, IBM PC system. Nicolet 1280/620, and
		Apple computers systems.
		Programming languages include:  FORTRAN, FORTH, C , Microsoft Visual Basic, 
		and DEC PDP-11 assembly.

Patent/Publications
		US Patent 4,451,374 for liquid chromatographic post-column reactor.
		Associated paper "Hollow Fiber Post column Reactor for Liquid Chromatography",
		Davis, J.; Peterson, D. ,Analytical Chemistry 1985, 57, 768-771

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