Jim has been at the Thermo Fisher Scientific / Patheon Cincinnati site since 2000.  By training he is a Chromatographer, earning his PhD in Separation Science in 1998 from the University of Cincinnati under the guidance of Dr John Dorsey.  He began his career on the bench as a lead development chemist then progressed to a laboratory Supervisor, then developed and managed the current analytical client facing team before taking his current role.  In his current role he serves as a technical support for all projects (small molecule pharmaceutical) at the Cincinnati site, serves as the site SME for technical guidance for all development proposals, and supports client and regulatory audits.  He also supports other sites Thermo Fisher / Patheon network as a technical SME and supported multiple Global team initiatives and PPI / Operational excellence projects.