ronald shimmon

Scientific Researcher at UTS

• Australia - Sydney
• January 2003 to December 2020

Manager for chemistry, material and forensic chemistry for more than 11 years, looking after 65 instruments, 300 research students and 7wet lab and 3 dry lab.
 Experience in Laboratory techniques for setting up experiments, purification of reagents and products, setting up reactions under inert atmosphere, small-scale reactions all with an emphasis on occupational health and safety
 Design and set up experiments, acquire, and interpretation and assignment of spectral data using Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) in both solution and solid state, gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS), FTIR and UV spectroscopy
Excellent skills in project management and coordination to achieve successful outcomes.
 Excellent interpersonal skills in dealing with both peers, junior staff and line management. Good team membership as well as leadership skills
 Supervisor and co-supervisor for a more than 10 Ph.D students and 20 honours students in chemistry and forensic project.
 Excellent experience in FT-IR, GC-MS, LC-MS
 Collecting, analysing, and interpreting data from GC-MS, LC-MS, NMR and IR
 Develop and supervision different projects for analytical chemistry three subject.
 Liaising with external clients in relation to particular analysis and test samples to resolve industrial problem.
 Generating a new fingerprint reagent similar to ninhydrin

Preparing technical reports, standard operation procedures and organizing WHS for research students.
 Involved in three patent for drug testing
 Upgrade chemistry pharmaceutical illicit drug experiments.
 Consulting with laboratory and technical manager on day- to- day activities to ensure an even spread of resources across the labs.
 Research consulting in many scientific project.
 Professional in organic chemistry and mechanism reaction.
 Teaching nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and organic chemistry