Independent consultant serving the pharmaceutical industry. Expertise in the synthesis, characterization, and analytical testing of drug substances and drug products. Services directed toward research project management, laboratory testing, scientific data review, and report writing.
Representative Technical Skills
Organic Chemistry
- Synthetic chemistry – mg to kg scale laboratory reactions, high pressure reactions, air-sensitive procedures
- Crystallization methods
- Enantiomer Resolutions
- Polymorph, salt and cocrystal screening and characterization
- Analytical chromatogrpahy (HPLC and TLC)
- Preparative chromatography
Analytical Chemistry
- X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD)
- Thermogravimetric analyses (TGA)
- Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
- Optical microscopy
- Infrared (IR) and Raman spectroscopy
- Moisture sorption/desorption analyses
- NMR spectroscopy
- Spectrophotometry
- Solubility and dissolution testing
- pH measurements and potentiometric titrations
Education
- B.A. (Chemistry), Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
- Ph.D. (Chemistry), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- Pharmaceutical Solids and Regulatory Affairs Coursework, Purdue University
Previous Employment.
2000 – 2011 Aptuit, Inc. (formerly SSCI, Inc.), West Lafayette, Indiana
- Director (August 2010 – May 2011)
- Principal (January 2007 – July 2010)
- Senior Research Investigator (2003 – 2006)
- Research Investigator (2000 – 2003)
1996 – 2000 Great Lakes Chemical (now Chemtura), West Lafayette, Indiana; Research Chemist
- Research Chemist (1996 – 2000)
Publications and Presentations
- Author of 23 publications in peer reviewed journals
- Inventor of 3 inventions granted patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office
- Invited Lecturer at various technical meetings
- Expert witness in several pharmaceutical patent matters in the US and abroad.