Debra Ann Weeks has extensive experience in technical and educational management positions. She has led multiple projects involving assay chemistry and instrumentation development. Weeks has also managed personnel, collaborated with vendors, and written technical reports. Additionally, she has experience as a consultant managing projects, developing applications, and designing analytical procedures and a laboratory facility. Weeks has successfully led projects while supervising engineers and scientists. She has also taught chemistry at several universities while developing new courses and improving student outcomes.

1. Debra Ann Weeks, Ph.D.
dweeks99@yahoo.com
OBJECTIVE
I would like to apply my extensive industry experience, educational background, organizational skills
and creative problem-solving abilities in a technical or educational management position.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Diagnostic Product Development: Singulex, Inc., Alameda, CA (2013-2014)
I was the lead on multiple projects, including coordinating with the Director of Engineering and Vice
President of Research to design and develop the next generation assay chemistry and instrumentation.
I developed, verified, validated and documented key raw material and component performance
characteristics on the current product formulation and, within the R&D and Development Groups,
identified and validated alternate chemistries, instrumentation and sources. I was a technical resource
in my department for data interpretation, experimental design and reagent chemistries, and trained
technical personnel; emphasizing elevated safety training and awareness. I have managed the
personnel selection process for several recent hires and have developed technical supervisorial staff. I
organized and managed collaborations with outside vendors and consultants. I have written several
comprehensive Technical Reports, contributed heavily to several other Technical Reports and wrote
numerous White Papers on pertinent technological and interpretive topics.
Consultant: Specializing in Project Management & Process Validation (2009-present)
I have had several confidential contracts with companies and non-profit organizations in California
and Australia. My responsibilities have included generating study reports for novel products and their
intermediates, developing new applications for the proprietary technology, formalizing analytical
procedures and designing a new laboratory facility. I wrote an assessment for monitoring and dredging
in the vicinity of the Great Barrier Reef and developed methods to clarify biogeochemical issues and
formulated recommendations for addressing these issues.
Senior R&D Project Leader: Queensland Alumina, Ltd. Gladstone, Australia (2006-2008)
I successfully led 4 major projects budgeted in excess of $1 Million and contributed to many others.
My initial project involved an apparently intractable problem that had the potential to shut down the
plant; I was quickly able to determine the root cause and to further develop process control elements to
prevent recurrence. All of my project proposals were funded; several on the first submission. I trained
and supervised 7 new engineers and several experienced chemists and technicians; two went on to
present our project work at an international conference. I also designed and implemented new
analytical techniques, produced oral and written progress reports to clients and managed academic and
industry collaborations. My broad background in chemical research and planning, extensive project
management experience and outstanding communication skills resulted in consistent on-time and
within budget achievement.

2. Assistant Professor of Chemistry: University of Hawai’i at Hilo, HI (2003-2006)
I doubled retention in General Chemistry and increased the number of seats offered by over 60% with
no budget increase. I contributed to a significant increase in minority retention in the sciences at UHH,
acquired funding for analytical instruments for student use, improved safety and student access in
laboratories and designed a new, advanced, course in Environmental Chemistry. I provided detailed
course syllabi for my students and assured that my courses met all accreditation requirements. I
developed and instituted Peer Mentoring for the Keaholoa Program which was subsequently employed
as a model for campus-wide peer tutoring. I was nominated by my peers and students for 4 system-
wide teaching awards. I supervised graduate and undergraduate research projects concerning an
arsenic-contaminated site, phytoplankton pigments, copper in seawater and mercury deposition. These
included the development and documentation of a range of analytical techniques, including ICP-ES,
HPLC, FIA and FAAS.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry: Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine (2002-2003) full time
I taught General Chemistry, Engineering Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Oceanography. I
supervised undergraduate research projects concerning copper contamination at a local EPA
Superfund site and another project to monitor bacterial load from a local waste treatment plant.
Research Associate & Teaching Assistant: University of California at Santa Cruz (1995-2002)
I designed, built and programmed a novel, sensitive analytical instrument that employed Flow
Injection Analysis and fiber optics to measure dissolved iron species in seawater. Laboratory work
required trace-metal clean sampling and laboratory techniques, and I performed organic synthesis to
produce column components and some reagents that could not be acquired commercially in a trace-
metal clean condition. I planned and executed my contribution to five 2-3 week-long off-shore
research cruises to sample and analyze seawater for dissolved macro- and micro-nutrients. I also
optimized an electrochemical analysis system, developed a spreadsheet to handle the large data sets we
produced and set up a system to produce low trace metal seawater for the lab. I taught instrumental
analysis techniques in a graduate/undergraduate level laboratory course as well as undergraduate
chemistry courses that included thermodynamics, kinetics and General Chemistry Labs.
EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Cruz, California – Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2002
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California – B.S. in Chemistry
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York – Coursework applied to B.S. in Chemistry

3. SELECTED PUBICATIONS
Matijasevich, A. and Weeks, D. “Co-precipitation of Organics with Hydrotalcite”, Proceedings of
the 8th International Alumina Quality Workshop 7-12 September 2008, Darwin, Australia.
Weeks, D.A. and Elrod, V.A. “Dissolved iron speciation with flow injection analysis using a pH
differential to load the 8-hydroxyquinoline pre-concentration column” American Society of
Limnologists and Oceanographers International Conference, Spain: June 2005
Weeks, D.A. “Slow acid release of iron from coastal upwelling zone samples” American Geophysical
Union/American Society of Limnologists and Oceanographers Ocean Sciences Conference, Honolulu,
Hawai’i: February 2002
Weeks, D.A. and Bruland, K.W. “An improved flow injection analysis method for the
determination of iron in seawater” Analytica Chimica Acta 453 (2002) 21-32.
Weeks, D.A. and Bruland, K.W. “Shipboard determination of iron in seawater by flow injection
analysis” Presented at the American Chemical Society Conference, Washington, D.C. August 2000.
Weeks, D.A. and Johnson, K.S. “Solenoid Pumps for Flow Injection Analysis” Analytical Chemistry
68 (1996) 2717-2719.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
First Night Monterey Volunteer (2013-present)
MATE Monterey Bay Regional ROV Competition Judge (2013-present)
Port Curtis Yacht Club Sailing Committee member – wrote procedures for the training vessels
and helped expand sail training opportunities (2006-2008)
Invited scientific and/or inspirational speaker to Hawaiian schools and community organizations
(2004-2006; on-going)
Served on the faculty senate at the University of Hawai’i (2004-2005)
Sigma Xi Big Island Science Fair judge (2004-2005)