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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
11.2022 - 08.2023
  • 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
06.2020 - 12.2020
  • 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
09.2019 - 12.2019
  • 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  • Commissioned 40 ODPS-approved reports for novel or outdated substances based on current CDSA regulations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
03.2019 - 08.2019
  • 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
09.2016 - 05.2022

Skills

    Stakeholder & Client Communications

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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

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Timeline

Scientific Evaluator

Health Canada, Office Of Drug Policy And Science
11.2022 - 08.2023

Cultivation Technician

Glasshouse Botanics
2022.02 - 2022.10

Junior Patent Examiner

Canadian Intellectual Property Office
06.2020 - 12.2020

Junior Scientific Evaluator

Health Canada, Office Of Drug Policy And Science
09.2019 - 12.2019

Research Lab Assistant

Laboratory of Dr. Tom Woo
03.2019 - 08.2019

Bachelor of Science - Chemistry

University of Ottawa
09.2016 - 05.2022
MATTHEW WHITEOffice Support, Chemistry