User:UnivarSolutionsChemist

I am an analytical chemist and laboratory manager for Univar Solutions chemical distribution division in northern California San Francisco Bay area. I primarily edit chemistry-related articles involving petrochemicals. My former Wikipedia UserTalk pages going back ten-plus years were NexeoChemist and AshlandChemist but I've changed employers again. I offer customers technical service and test and manage the quality of liquid chemicals received and distributed from our plant throughout North America and the Far East. I've worked in and managed chemistry laboratories since 1985 and am a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and University of California, Irvine (UCI). My work ensures the purity and quality of industrial, food-grade and USP/FCC/NF grade chemicals repackaged and distributed to end-user manufacturers primarily by employing analytical chemistry techniques on bulk liquid compounds from most global oil refiners and petrochemical manufacturers. I am also an active member of the California section of the American Chemical Society (ACS - see www.chemistry.org), where the ACS and I provide a chemistry internship, Project SEED, for disadvantaged high school students during the summer months.

I live in Woodland, California, USA with my wife Lori and our daughter Stephanie.

I work with "the best of the best" in global chemical distribution at Univar Solutions while continuing with the annual American Chemical Society Project SEED effort. In addition I explore opportunities to continually improve the analytical capabilities of our national and western region quality control laboratories.

Specialties: Gas Chromatography, FTIR, Petroleum and Petrochemical process knowledge.