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CURRICULUM VITAE: JOHN W. AUSTAD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Continued)

1/2007 – 10/2007: Supervisor II, Food and Drug Analysis, Technical Development As supervisor of the Technical Development group, Mr. Austad was responsible for the review of new methods and scheduling staff to conduct the validation of new methods. Mr. Austad was also responsible for working with other departments and scheduling his staff to work on any technical issues with existing methods currently performed in Nutritional Chemistry. Mr. Austad also conducted performance evaluations and hired new personnel. He had overall responsibility for client interaction and the technical conduct of new methodology as well as for the interpretation, analysis, documentation, and reporting of results. 12/ 2004 – 1/2007: Supervisor II, Food and Drug Analysis, Vitamin Chemistry As supervisor of the Vitamin Chemistry group, Mr. Austad was responsible for scheduling and reviewing analytical work performed by members of the group. This work included routine and non- routine analysis of fat-soluble vitamins in foods, food supplements, and feeds. Mr. Austad also conducted performance evaluations and hired new personnel. He also acted as a study director and or Principal Investigator for Food and Drug Analysis studies. He had overall responsibility for client interaction and the technical conduct of a study as well as for the interpretation, analysis, documentation, and reporting of results 4/ 2003 – 12/2004: Supervisor I, Food and Drug Analysis, Second Shift Mr. Austad was responsible for scheduling work and reviewing results for the evening shift. He was responsible for all aspects of these groups; including the quality of results, assay turn-around time, productivity, profitability and the technical guidance of analytical activities. In addition, he hired and trained new personnel and conducted the performance evaluation for each employee. Mr. Austad was responsible for the analysis of heavy metals using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry. His duties included processing samples for analysis, preparation of standards, operation of spectrometer, calculating, and reporting data. Mr. Austad was responsible for the routine maintenance of the spectrometer, microwave and other equipment while maintaining a clean and safe laboratory work environment. In addition to above duties, Mr. Austad was trained to set Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP), Selenium, Silicon, and Mercury samples for digestion, perform Karl Fischer Moisture assays, and respond to Rees System alarms. 6/2001 – 4/2003: Analyst, Food and Drug Analysis

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