Connor Carroll

Experience Microbiology Laboratory Technician II07/2018 to Present Teva Pharmaceuticals – Irvine, California I currently work for Teva in the environmental monitoring group within the microbiology department. In this role I spend most of my time analyzing incubated plates from clean rooms in order to check for microorganism growth. On top of this I will run necessary testing on the microorganisms found in order to determine their identity. I also analyze particulate data in order to determine the concentration and sizes of particulate found in the clean rooms. This position has allowed me to expand my knowledge of, and gain valuable experience in biological laboratory work. Engineering Technician08/2017 to 2/2018 Bureau of Land Management – Tillamook, Oregon My last position was a six month engineering contract for a BLM field office that focused on the timber industry in coastal Oregon. I worked with a senior engineer to assist with road layout/decommissioning, design, and contractor support. I also independently conducted road inspections to inform the engineers and foresters on road conditions in future planning areas. In this position I got a lot of experience with field work, surveying, and civil engineering principles. Laboratory Technician11/2015 to 7/2017 Ashland Inc. – Bridgewater, New Jersey I worked in the skin care research and development department at Ashland. I primarily worked on formulations with a senior scientist. We developed new formulas from scratch and worked with other companies in order to improve their existing formulations. I also analyzed and ran stability tests on samples that we worked with. I was heavily involved in both the development of creams and gels, as well as color cosmetics and makeup. I regularly used wet chemistry and microscopy to run experiments and determine how to implement Ashland chemicals into our formulations. Chemical Process Operator07/2015 to 11/2015 Ball Corporation – Williamsburg, Virginia Working in a manufacturing plant, I was in charge of routinely monitoring and running two chemical processes. The first was a washing process that also used an etching reaction to remove aluminum for printing. The second was a wastewater treatment process that removed oil and metal from the plants wastewater. I routinely collected samples from the processes and tested them in the lab for various qualities like concentration, conductivity, and pH. In this position I got a lot of mechanical experience because I regularly had to fix equipment that was not working properly. Research Assistant05/2014 to 08/2014 University of Colorado, Chemical Engineering Laboratories – Boulder, Colorado For a summer I worked full time researching polymerization-induced phase-separation in filled and heterogeneous networks. I completed an independent study that provided necessary information about the effects of unfunctionalized fillers on phase-separated polymer networks for professor Jeffrey Stansbury. I primarily worked in the laboratory curing polymer samples and running experiments on them. I worked mainly with mass spectrometers, viscometers and dynamic mechanical analysis. Education B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Graduated: May 2015 University of Colorado at Boulder - GPA: 3.0 Technical Skills Wet Chemistry, Formulation, Research and Development, Manufacturing, Wastewater treatment, GMP, Color Cosmetics, Chemical Engineering, Chemical Inventory, Polymers Research, Microscopy, Mass Spec, Field Work, GPS Surveying Computer Programs: Microsoft office (very experienced with Excel), Aspen Hysys, Aspen Plus, Matlab, Mathematica, Minitab, ArcMap, ArcGIS Personal Skills