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Conjeevaram Jayavelu Gunasekhar
P.O. Box. No. 29300, Abu Dhabi,UAE.
Telephone: (971) 02-6316012
E-mail: cjsekhar@hotmail.com

Career Objective

Specifically looking for chemistry related areas. Examples include working in a laboratory involve research and quality control. Also would consider a position as a research scientist or in charge of instrumentation and wet chemistry laboratory. Greatest interest are in Agreecultural science research projects.

Highlights of Experience

·Quality Control and Assurance
·Incharge of operation and maintenance of sophisticated analytical laboratory.
·Training and maintenance of staff management
·Environmental sample analysis. Special mentions are the trace and heavy metal analysis by AAS/ICP in potable water and soil. Evolution of BOD & COD for industrial effluents, boiler water etc.,
·Biological sample analysis by HPLC, LC-MS & GC-MS technique. Special mentions are given as follows: Method development and screening of pesticides in plant extracts, screening the adulterants of orthodox drugs in herbal medicines and finger printing of various plant extracts, biological fluids such as blood serum, drug metabolites, catecol amine determination by HPLC.
·I am expertise and gained much experience in handling the recently developed technique such as LC-MS. The following works were carried out by me in LC-MS are Screening of vitamins, alkaloids flavinoids, viagra, catechin, caffeine and pesticides in APCI mode of LC-MS. Screening of antibiotics in blood serum in ESI mode of LC-MS.
·Analysis of pharmaceutical formulations, petroleum products, paints, polymers and food chemicals.
·Computer inventorying chemicals, consumables and spare parts of the analytical instruments.
·Research experience in herbal plants and other natural product chemicals

Work History

Zayed Complex for Herbal Research, Ministry of Health, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Research Assistant- June,1996- Present
·Operation and maintenance of analytical and chromatographic equipment.
·Involved in the research projects of Herbal Medicine.
·Involve in quality control of raw materials and the finished products.
·Involved in the isolation and identification of active ingredients of plant extracts such as alkaloids, flavinols, glycosides, etc., using chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques such as LC-MS/HPLC/GC-MS/UV-VIS/FT-IR/FT-NMR/Spectroflourimeter.
·Involve in the detection of pesticides presence , quntitative determination of heavy and toxic elements in medicinal plants.
·Involve in the projects of anti diabetic, anti hypertension and anti allergic herbal products formulations.
·Involve in the computer inventorying chemicals, consumables and spare parts of the analytical instruments.

Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Center, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras-36, India

Senior Scientific Assistant, May 1993- June 1996

·Involved in the operation and maintenance of ESCA spectrometer and Laser Raman spectrometer.
·Supervising the team of five technical assistants.
·Involved in conducting the laboratory classes for the post graduate students.
·Involved as a trainer in various instrumentation workshops.

Southern Petroleum Industrial Chemicals(SPIC), Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, India.

Laboratory Supervisor, January 1994- February 1996.

Deputed to SPIC from my parent department for their analytical instrumentation section. SPIC is Naphtha based fertilizer plant, which manufactures Ammonium chloride, Caustic soda, Sodium chloride, Hydrochloric acid, Urea, Ammonium sulfate and Diammonium phosphate.
Under took special training for water purification and the evolution of BOD & COD for industrial effluents, boiler water etc., Trained thoroughly the analysis of all petroleum based products both by wet chemical and instruments methods (like GC, HPLC, IR and UV).

Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Center, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras-36, India

Technical Assistant, August 1987- April 1993.
Involved in the operation and maintenance of, HPLC, GC, FT-NMR, CW-NMR, X & Q-Band ESR and VSM.
Four Senior Laboratory Assistant worked under my supervision.
Involved in characterization of compounds in the field of organic chemistry, biology, medicine,pharmaceuticals.
Studied the molecular structure, relaxation time, reaction mechanism, solid state materials by MAS technique, 13C, 1H, 19F, 31P, 2D-NMR by JEOL GSX 400 NB FT-NMR Spectrometer (400MHz) & Varian EM 390 CW-NMR Spectrometer (90MHz).
·Involved in handling B.Tech. chemistry laboratory classes.

Madras Refineries Limited (MRL), Madras, India.

Laboratory Chemist, July 1989- June 1991

Deputed to MRL from my parent department for their Quality control and Research and development wings. MRL producing Naphtha, Gasoline, Gas oil, Kerosene, asphalt, LPG & fuel gas.
·Involved in the analysis of gaseous samples by GC to estimate the toxic gases like, H2S, SO2, Nitrous oxides prevalent in atmosphere.
·Monitoring air pollution.
·Analysis of the sea-borne chemicals such as the crude oils and determining the various components.
·Monitoring the parameters like vapor pressure, flash point, acidity and alkalinity, ash contents, C/H ratio, metallic contents, RCR etc.,

Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Center, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras-36, India

Senior Laboratory Assistant, August 1986- June 1987.

·Involved in the analyses of trace, minor and major multielemental analysis in water, Soil, food materials, air particulate and other environmental related samples by Varian AA6 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) and ARL 3410 Inductively Coupled Plasma Emission Spectrometer (ICP).
·Analyses of samples like Petroleum products, Pharmaceuticals, resins from industries, polymers, industrial oils, food materials, etc., for external laboratories/ companies/refineries by PE983 & PE781 Infrared Spectrophotometer & IFS 66V FT-IR Brucker Spectrometer.
·Involved in handling M.Sc. Chemistry laboratory theory and practical classes.

Education

·M.Sc. in Chemistry (Specialization in instrumentation analyzes) in I class, Loyola college,
Madras University, Madras, India.(1986)
·B.Sc. Chemistry in I class, Madras Christian College, Madras University, India.(1982)

Awards/ Distinction
·Passed in University Grant Commission (UGC)/ Counsel for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) examination for the enrollment of Ph.D. program in any Indian Universities and other scientific research units in the year 1989.
·Passed in Lectureship examination (eligibility criteria for the job of lecturer in Indian Universities) in the year 1989,
·Passed in Common Examination for Research Admission (CERA) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India for the admission criteria of Ph.D. program.

Research Publications
About twenty five research publications in the form of abstracts,full papers in international conference and some journals of repute. Details will be attached at request.

Europe Training

Had training in Laser Raman Spectrometer at Lille University/ France & Dilor Gmbh / West Germany in the year 1993. I was thoroughly trained in the operation, maintenance and analyses in various types of sample.

Computer Skills

·Operating systems: Apple Macintosh, MS DOS, IBM OS 2, Windows95, 98, Milleneum&XP.
·Word processors: MS Word, word perfect.
·Spread sheets: MS Excel
·Graphics: Power point, Harward graphics
·Data base Management: Management & Updating of consumables and spare parts related with the equipment.

Instruments Handled
·FT-IR Spectrometer Bruker IFS 66V (10,000-10cm-1)
Perkin Elmer Paragon1000 (7800-100cm-1)
·Laser Raman Spectrometer Dilor Z24 (5000-10cm-1)
·UV-Visible Spectrophotomete Spectronic Genesis (200-1100nm)
·FT-NMR Spectrometer JEOL GSX 400 NM 400MHz
Varian Gemini 2000 400MHz
·Atomic absorption Spectrophotometer Shimadzu AA-6800, Varian AA6
·Atomic Emission Spectrometer ARL 3410 ICP
·GC/MS spectrometer Finnigan MAT 8230
QP/5000 GC-Mass Spectrometer
·LC-MS Spectrometer QP/8000 LC-Mass Spectrometer
·HPLC Waters 600 Analytical integrated with PDA detector and auto sampler.
·HPLC Waters prep4000 prepartive & Biotage Kiloprep 100 preparative
·GC GC 8000/ MEGA 2 series Gas Chromatograph
·ESCA Spectrometer VG ESCA LAB MKII
·ESR Spectrometer Varian E-112 X & Q Band, Varian E-4 X Band.
·Spectroflurometer RF-1501 Spectrofluorometer.

Note: The highlighted (Bold) instruments are currently being operated.