Robyn Rhudy

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Last Updated: 6/21/08

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Objective:

To use my knowledge to better the environment and to obtain a position in environmental chemistry in the process or a position having nothing to do with chemistry at all!

Education:

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MS in analytical chemistry awarded May 1996
Final GPA: 3.68

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BS in chemistry and minor in French awarded May 1994
Final GPA: 3.83 (Magna Cum Laude, academic and departmental honors)

Honors & Awards:

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, 1994-1996
The American Institute of Chemists Foundation Student Award for excellence in the chemical sciences, May 1994
Distinguished Scholarship in Chemistry, April 1994
Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry, 1993
Presidential Scholarship, $10,000, 1990-1994
Honors College Scholarship, $2,000, 1990-1994
Certificate of Merit, June 1990
President's Academic Fitness Award, June 1990
Northeast Conference Award for Excellence in Language Study (French), June 1990
Bausch and Lomb Science Award, 1989

Experience:

Self-Employed (meaning almost no income from it!).
Part-Time Author, 2001-present.
Non-fiction - Robyn's Pond Book and contributions to various e-newsletters.
See http://www.fishpondinfo.com/book.htm for more information.

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Chemist (Head HPLC Chemist), December 9, 1997-present
Tested for food additives, contaminants, etc. via HPLC and other methods; for example (not all listed), aflatoxins, anions, aspartame, aspirin, Vitamin A and beta-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthin, capsaicins (Scoville Heat, my speciality), malachite green, minocycline, erythromycin, flavonoides, furazolidone, nitrofurazone, metronidazole, nalidixic acid, sulfonamides, theobromine, theophylline, MSG, organic acids, ethoxyquin, BHA, BHT, polyphenols, sulfa drugs, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, sugars, sugar alcohols, vanillin, vanillic acid, four other compounds found in vanilla extract, tetracyclines in meat and feed, caffeine, saccharin, benzoic acid, various acids (citric, ascorbic, erythorbic, propionic, etc.), patulin, HMF, Vitamins B (B1,2,3,&6), C, D, E, and K, acesulfame-K, glycyrrhizic acid, indole, lutein, lycopene, penicillins, styrene, sucralose, limonin, nicarbazin, virginiamycin, EDTA, and more more via HPLC, arsenic, hardness, alkalinity, aflatoxin, juice authenticity, melamine, etc.; used centrifuge, vacuum systems, lots of wet chemistry, etc. (see below under skills for equipment used)

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Assistant, June 23, 1997-July 7, 1997
Did temporary work xeroxing, faxing, using spreadsheets, and other office work

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Analytical Chemist, December 30, 1996-June 20, 1997
Worked in the TSM4 office in the environmental analysis lab using equipment such as the Hewlett Packard 4500 ICP-MS, Hewlett Packard 5970 and 5890 GC-MS, Midi-Vap Model MCV100-3 Midi-Cyanide Distillation System, CEM MDS-8ID, and Milton Roy Spectronic 301 to test various fresh and salt water samples and metal samples for metals, organics, cyanide, etc. as well as performing many other assignments

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Sales Clerk, Aquarium Store, October 9, 1996-November 18, 1996
Helped to maintain over 500 fish tanks, advised customers, sold live animals and supplies, and performed miscellaneous tasks as needed

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Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA), August 1994-June 1996
Oversaw organic chemistry and then instrumental analysis laboratories

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Intern, June-July 1993
Conducted biotoxicity tests using cultured minnows and daphnia and some chemical water testing

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Tutor, September-December 1992

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Intern, June-July 1992
Worked on stream and watershed surveying, cartography, identifying aquatic macroinvertebrates, etc.

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Sales Clerk and Demonstrator, June-August 1988
Demonstrated and sold magic supplies and helped keep shop

Self Employed
Professional Magician, December 1984-October 1989
Performed 33+ shows (9 paid, 24 volunteer)

Post-Masters Seminars and Courses:

Waters HPLC Forum '98 - 4 hours, 5/6/98.

Chromatography Institute of America, Normal and Reverse Phase HPLC - 18 hours, 4/22/99 and 4/23/99.

Shimadzu HPLC Preventative Maintenance Course - 16 hours, 6/17/04 and 6/18/04.

Skills:

Work well in a chemical laboratory setting.

Love to work behind a desk and on the computer.

Communicate efficiently and able to teach others.

Can write reports, memos, procedures, etc. very well. Author of Robyn's Pond Book sold at Author House.

Familiar with instruments including but not confined to LC, GC, GC-MS, AA, UV-VIS, PV, CV, ICP-MS, CN- distillation, pH and ion meters, Vicam Series 4 Fluorometer (for aflatoxin), etc.

Specific liquid chromatographic equipment utilized at current job = Beckman 110A, Waters 501, Waters 510, and Shimadzu LC-10AT pumps; Waters 431 Conductivity, Waters 481 Spectrophotometer, Shimadzu RF-530 and RF-551 and RF-10AXL Flourescence, Shimadzu SPD-10AV Spectrophotometer, and Erma ERC-7510 RI detectors; Shimadzu CR601, Spectra Physics 4400, Shimadzu C-R8A, Hewlett Packard HP3396, and Waters 740 integrators; and Shimadzu SCL-10A controller with Shimadzu SIL-10AD auto-injector (all other machines are manual injection). Update added: Shimadzu client server (computer run machines), Shimadzu ELSD-LT detector, updated UV detectors.

Excel in environmental tasks.

Love caring for animals (100's of fish in 4 fish tanks and 8 ponds,17 other permanent pets, and dozens more pond and temporary animals).

Voted smartest female in graduating 1990 class with difficult coursework, 3.5 years straight A's, top 5% of class, and perfect attendance.

Speak French almost fluently (yearly classes 1984-1994) and capable of basic translation.

Computer Skills:

Can use both IBM and Apple/Macintosh.

Moderate to fast typing, Windows, Windows 95, DOS, Basic, Fortran, WordPerfect 5.1 and 6.0, Microsoft Word, Excel, Lotus, Netscape, some HTML, Print Shop and other drawing programs, Cricket Graph and other graphing programs, modem, internet, and many others.

At home, I have an IBM with regular features plus a fast CD drive, a laser printer, a scanner, internet access (DSL), an outgoing fax, and most of the above programs so I would be well suited to work at home.

Experience designing, writing (in HTML), and maintaining my large web site.

Computer Games:
Helped to create a few computer games including a graphic adventure using an interface created by my brother and worked on the pictures, sounds, and error checking for the well known shareware game called Tank Regime (see http://userpages.umbc.edu/~rrhudy2 - note the site is gone now so this is an archived version)

Learn new computer languages, skills, and programs very quickly
Created these web pages with virtually no training (just a handful of commands)

Activities:

Honors College, SCHOOL NAME OMITTED, 1990-1994
Phi Kappa Phi honor society, March 1993-1994
French Honor Society, 1989-1990
NAME OMITTED (magicians' society), September 1986-early 1990's

References and/or transcript available upon request.

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