MATTHEW WHITE
Office Support, Chemistry
Ottawa,ON
Summary
Seeking to apply experience from Health Canada and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Passionate in helping Canadians and providing excellent service. Achieves excellence in new situations and adaptable to many roles.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Scientific Evaluator
Health Canada, Office Of Drug Policy And Science
Ottawa, ON
2022.11 - 2023.08
- Converted 75% of physical reports, containing 20 years of non-controlled and controlled ODPS status decisions, within 4 months
- Maintained and updated digitization SOP to account for report format variations over time
- Indexed contents of 80+ paper volumes containing upwards of 100 reports each, ensuring traceability and data retention
- Required expertise in MS Excel, MS Access, and Sharepoint
- Required expertise in MS Teams (monthly progress reports and presentations, scheduling meetings)
- In-depth clerical work requiring cross-platform communication
Cultivation Technician
Glasshouse Botanics
Pembroke, ON
2022.02 - 2022.10
- Helped propagate 4 generations of upwards of 3 000 cannabis clone plants to productive end flower product
- Taught new employees procedures in clone care and maintenance of mother plants
- Improved productivity of mother cannabis plants by excellent pruning and nutrient application cycles
- Sanitized greenhouses and equipment to prevent spore and pest infestations
Junior Patent Examiner
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Gatineau, QC
2020.06 - 2020.12
- Comprehensively reviewed 25+ national patent applications to facilitate compliance to the Patent Act and eventual approval, each requiring 24+ hours of review
- Cross-referenced Canadian, US and European patent agency databases to prove novelty of claims within applications
- Screened chemical structural databases to validate innovation of substances used within applications
- Collaborated with a team of patent examiners in a preliminary review for an international patent application, providing global groundwork
Junior Scientific Evaluator
Health Canada, Office Of Drug Policy And Science
Ottawa, ON
2019.09 - 2019.12
- Managed over 300 requests from corporate and government stakeholders for substance legality
- Commissioned 40 ODPS-approved reports for novel or outdated substances based on current CDSA regulations
- Extensively reviewed Atom-pair Tanimoto coefficient within 3 months to dispute court claims of a binge-drinking substitute being structurally dissimilar to scheduled MDMA
Research Lab Assistant
Laboratory of Dr. Tom Woo
Ottawa, ON
2019.03 - 2019.08
- Extracted data from computational jobs ran on Linux, requiring Bash and Python expertise
- Developed Python scripts to file-handle and perform chemical property calculations screening the best organic candidates for isotopic separation of Li-6 and Li-7
- Determined 15-crown-5 ether derivatives were the most suitable candidates for isotopic separation of Li-7 from Li-6
Education
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
University of Ottawa
Ottawa 2016.09 - 2022.05
Skills
Stakeholder & Client Communications
Report Writing
Data Entry & Analysis
Time Management
Detail-Oriented
Document Review
Critical Feedback
Teamwork and Collaboration
Clerical Support
MS Office
Records Management
Interests
- Badminton; Bouldering; Biking
- Anything with family or friends
- Online Chess and games
Research Accomplishments
- Lab Research position screening ionophore candidates for isotopic separation and wrote an associated work report titled “Investigating Ionophores for Enriching Lithium-7 via Extraction” (2019)
Laboratory of Dr. Tom Woo, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa
- Performed computer simulations to explain the unusual behaviour of IISERP-MOFXX as a Research Lead for the Honours thesis titled “An Investigation into the Hydrophobicity of an Amine-based MOF” (2021)
Laboratory of Dr. Tom Woo, Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa
Work Availability
monday
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Timeline
Scientific Evaluator
Health Canada, Office Of Drug Policy And Science
2022.11 - 2023.08
Cultivation Technician
Glasshouse Botanics
2022.02 - 2022.10
Junior Patent Examiner
Canadian Intellectual Property Office
2020.06 - 2020.12
Junior Scientific Evaluator
Health Canada, Office Of Drug Policy And Science
2019.09 - 2019.12
Research Lab Assistant
Laboratory of Dr. Tom Woo
2019.03 - 2019.08
Bachelor of Science - Chemistry
University of Ottawa
2016.09 - 2022.05