HeadshotI am a graduate of the University of Southern California with a Ph.D. in Organic / Polymer Chemistry. My work has led me to be a “Jack of All Trades” in the chemistry world, i.e. design, synthesis, purification, characterization, optical spectroscopy, electrochemistry, data analysis, and failure analysis.

The name of my site comes from a term involved in one of the instruments that I worked with quite a bit, an NMR, otherwise known as a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. According to the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, a chemical shift is essentially when signals are positioned higher or lower than a known standard. This distance from that standard, along with the line shape (or splitting pattern) and the area under the peaks, can be used to identify a molecule’s structure.

Outside of chemistry, I enjoy cooking, photography, web design and working with computers. I use multiple operating systems while at home: Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Mac OS X 10.4.11, and various distributions of Linux. I also run Mac OS 8.1, Mac OS 9.2.2, Windows 98 Second Edition, and others, when I need to use older software suited to particular tasks.

Here’s a concise bio about me:

  • Grew up in Florida.
  • Went to private schools until first half of fifth grade.
  • Went to public schools from then until twelfth.
  • Went to local college for undergrad.
  • Worked in a pharmacy through undergrad.
  • Got chemistry job near undergrad after graduation.
  • Met future wife, dated for a few years, and then got engaged.
  • Got married, quit job, moved to Texas for grad school, all within two weeks.
  • Moved with research advisor to California after a year in Texas.
  • Graduated from graduate school with my Ph.D. in Chemistry.
  • Got a postdoc position in the high desert of California.
  • Worked at a start up developing sensor technology in Delaware.
  • Working on commercial and government projects for technology development in Pennsylvania.

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