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U.S. Pharmacopeia
North Bethesda, MD 20852
06/2008 - 01/2010
Scientific Liaison to the Dietary Supplements, Nutrition, and Electrolytes Expert Committee
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
Responsible for USP Drug and Dietary Supplement Monographs, General Chapters, Pharmacopeial Forum, USP
Reference Standards (USP RS), and new proposals.
Managed DSN EC meetings, telephone technical support, and presentation of monographs, reports, and
proposals.
Led USP lab projects to develop traceability to NIST for vitamin and mineral assays, and projects to detect
economic adulteration of dietary supplements.
Applied principles of analytical chemistry to design quality tests for dietary supplements, vitamins, nutritional
bulk materials, and dosage forms.
Answered telephone and E-mail queries from compendial monograph users and various industry stakeholders.
Concurrently served on AOAC International Expert Review panels for critical assay method development, e.g.,
water-soluble vitamins, Omega-3 and -6 oils, and Coenzyme-Q10.
Served on the Governing Board of the Washington Chromatography Discussion Group.
U.S. Pharmacopeia
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08/2004 - 06/2008
Reference Standards Scientist
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
Steward of USP Reference Standards and fine chemicals portfolio. Planned and directed testing, evaluation,
approval, release, and stability monitoring of USP Reference Standards.
Provided Reference Standards Technical Support to end users via E-mail and telephone. Point of contact for
reference standard and monograph customer queries.
Prepared project summary documents, collaborative study findings, and oral presentations for the USP RS Expert
Committee.
Commended for "superlative teamwork" in cross-silo assignments and interdepartmental team activities.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
Analytical Chemistry Division MS-8392
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
02/2003 - 08/2004
Research Chemist
(This is a federal job)
Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
Developed high accuracy methods for food and other natural matrices by GC/MSn and LC/MSn. Measurements
used for certification of NIST Standard Reference Materials (SRM).
Improved Definitive Methods for high precision determination of human clinical markers: creatinine, urea, and
uric acid. Improved precision of the measurement of these health status markers in human serum (SRM 909b).
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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