Education

*    From Aug-02 to present

      U. of North Texas

      Denton, Texas.

      Chemistry graduate student, Dr. Thomas Cundari’s          group.

*    From Sep-99 to Aug-02

      U. of Alabama at Birmingham

      Birmingham, Alabama.

      B.S. in Chemistry major/ Biology minor

*    From Jan-89 to 1990

      And Sep-98 to Aug-99

      Gadsden State Community College

      Gadsden, Alabama.

*    From aug-84 to may 88

      Anas ben malik High School

      Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Employment

* U. of North Texas

    Chemistry department

    Job: Teacher assistant

Chem.1351 Lab./fall-02. Dr. Theriot.

Gen.ChemII.1440 Lab/spring-03. Dr. Marshall.

Gen.ChemI.1430 Lab/fall-03. Dr.Acree.

* University of Alabama at Birmingham

     Chemistry Department

     Birmingham, AL. Job: teacher assistant for chemistry recitations    

     and laboratories in general chemistry and organic chemistry:

     - Gen.Chem.112 Lab.& Rec./fall‘00-‘01. Dr.J.March. 1sec.

     - Gen.Chem.111 Lab.& Rec./winter‘01-‘02. Dr.J.March. 2sec.

     - Gen.Chem.112 Lab.& Rec./spring‘01-‘02. Dr.J.March. 2sec.

     - Gen.Chem.113 Lab.&Rec./summer’01-‘02. Dr.J.March. p/t. 1sec.

     - Gen.Chem.118 Lab. /fall ‘01.Dr.J.March.&Dr.L.Krannich.3sec.

     - Org.Chem.237 Rec. /spring ’02. Dr.J.Nikles.

     - Org.Chem.238 Lab. /spring’02. Dr.J.Nikles.

* Advance auto parts, inc.

      Gadsden, AL. Job: worked in the inventory control department,

      also received training on heavy equipment then the safe forklift

      operations license.

      From 03-99 to 08-99.

* Top o’ the River.

      Gadsden, AL. Job: food expo-personnel. Inspected food before it

      reached the customers, monitored food quality and speed of

      production between a crew of 30 employees, to serve a 

      huge number of customers.

     From 04-94 to 06-98, including some part time.

* Deaton, Inc.

     Birmingham, AL. Job: operated and drove a tractor trailer 48 states

     and Canada, then became a company driver trainer, to train and

     prepare new drivers.

     From 07-96 to 03-98.

Languages

In addition to communication in English I also perfectly speak and

understand Arabic, and understand some Spanish, and Latin.

References

 References are available upon request.

Professional memberships

* American Chemical Society student affiliate member since ’01.

* Cofounder and Treasurer of the student affiliate of the American 

   Chemical Society at UAB in the year 2001.

Volunteer experience

* From 07-’01 to 01-’02.

   Volunteered at the Children Hospital in Birmingham, AL. surgery dep.

* Science in motion UAB

   UAB chemistry, Birmingham.

  Volunteered with a group from the ACS student Affiliates under the  

  supervision of Cindy Willingham in the science outreach program for  

  high school students and teachers in Alabama.

* recipient of a gold medal and certificate of best student of the year

  in high school.

* I can manage with most of Microsoft and Windows products, and can

  carry out information exchange over the internet as efficiently as it

  should be. I also have experience with doing calculations of reaction

  paths and mechanisms, and comparing spectra using the programs:

  MathCAD, Spartan, Titan, Pc Model, Alchemy2000, Chemwindows,

  ChemDraw, Gaussian98&03, and MOE2000.

* I participated with the Chem.. dep. faculty members at UAB by

  attending the meetings to choose a new Gen. Chem. text book for

  fall 2001.

* recipient of the NSF-REU for summer/’01. I worked with Dr. R.

  Advincula’s group at UAB doing synthesis of monomers and

  Conjugated polymers for electro polymerization and electro deposition.

  I also learnt several lab techniques: TLC paper, separation by columns,

  SAM technique, and introduction to cyclic voltammetry experiments.

* can operate most if not all of the office equipments, plus a good

  knowledge of UV-Vis spectrophotometer, IR, Burker ARX-300NMR,

  Spectronic 20D Spectrometer.

* other licenses include a CDL, forklift operation license, and healthcare

  provider.

* from fall-01 to spring-02. I did research with Dr. Gray at UAB in the

  inorg. chem. area: Metallacrown ethers conformation, cation binding

  and catalysis. Hybrid polym., and transition metal-phosphine complex.

* from fall-03 to present. I do research with Dr.Cundari at UNT in the   

   broad area of computational inorganic and organometallic chemistry.

* June-03 Submitted a Communication entitled: (Jahn-Teller Distortion in

   the Phosphorescent Excited State of Three-coordinate Au(I) Phosphine

   Complexes) to JACS for review and publication.

* Poster talk presentation at the 226th ACS National Meeting, New York,     

   NY, Sep/03. DIC/Coordination Chemistry.

* Poster talk presentation at the 226th ACS National Meeting, 

   New York, NY, Sep/03. DIC/Sci-Mix.

* Poster presentation at Gordon Research Conferences (GRC), 

   Organometallic Chemistry, July 20-25,2003. Salve Regina University.

   Newport, RI. Titled:  Spin Does Matter: Reactivity of d2 (silox)2M=NtBu    

   (M=[Mo], W).

* NMR 12 hrs Short Course. Presented by Dr.Ben Shoulders, UT Austin. 

   Aug. 28, 29, Sept. 1, 2. @ UNT Chem-Department. Course outline: 

   Proton NMR spectra, Carbon NMR spectra, Cosy spectra, Longrange

  Cosy spectra, C/H spectra, Longrange C/H spectra, NOE Spectra,

  INADQT spectra, Imaging, CPMAS, and diffusion.