Background

• UCLA, Ph.D. Analytical chemist,  1987

  • Preston, Deborah Marie. Spectroscopic studies of the excited state: Single crystal potassium-tetrachloroplatinate, gas phase nickel-carbonyl, and nitrospiropyrans in sol gel. University of California, Los Angeles, 1988.

  • Preston, Deborah, Jean Claude Pouxviel, Thomas Novinson, William C. Kaska, Bruce Dunn, and Jeffrey I. Zink. "Photochromism of spiropyrans in aluminosilicate gels." Journal of Physical Chemistry 94, no. 10 (1990): 4167-4172.

  • Zink, Jeffrey I., Bruce Dunn, John McKiernan, Deborah Preston, Stacey Yamanaka, and E. KNOBBE. "Optical Probes and Properties of Aluminosilicate Glasses Prepared by the Sol-Gel Method." In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, vol. 198, pp. 46-PMSE. 1155 16TH ST, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036: AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 1989.

 

• University of Illinois Chicago, B.S. Chemistry, 1978

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Technical Experience

DuPont

• Spectroscopies and mass spectrometry for identification, characterizations, and problem solving

• General knowledge of analytical techniques and capabilities

• Project management

• Analytical consultation for external customers

• Professional Experience

• DuPont Corporate Center for Analytical Sciences (CCAS)

• Analytical problem solving and leadership for Fibers Analytical Science and Technology (AS&T)

• Group Leader, Fibers AS&T

• Analytical leader, CCAS, located at Seaford Nylon manufacturing site

• Principal investigator, CCAS

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Rockwell Environmental Monitoring and Services Center

• Environmental and health testing analytical support

• EPA Superfund analytical support

• Rockwell Space Shuttle program support

• Army explosives decommissioning

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Dade Division AHSC [later became Dade Diagnostics]

• Developed two clinical serum chemistries

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UOP Inc

• Evaluated carbon electrolytes in phosphoric acid fuel cells