Obsessed with cutting edge technologies and adapting to stay at the forefront. Co-Founder of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization based on EVM blockchains, utilising and extending generative art tooling to deliver Web3 projects, in collaboration with artists and developers. Leading a global multidiscplinary team at 'OC Org', supporting and enabling project ideas in collaboration with Scatter. Experience as a Synthetic and Analytical Chemist at Pfizer, working in High-Throughput Screening and QA environments for novel method development and process optimization.
Languages
JavaScript · TypeScript · Python · PHP · Lua
Frameworks & Libraries
React · Next.js · Django · React Three Fiber · Phaser.js · PlayCanvas · Defold
Scientific & Lab
LC Method Development · LC/MS-QTOF Method Development · Chromatography & Quant/Qual Analysis · Computational Modelling · FTIR · X-Ray Crystallography · NMR · High Throughput Screening · Solubility · Drug Dissolution · GMP · GLP · ALCOA · SOP Writing and Review · Lean Six Sigma/5S
Creative & Data
Pillow · NumPy · Jupyter · IPFS · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Stable Diffusion
Co-founder & Team Lead · 2021 – present
Produces and platforms art projects in the Web3 space (NFTs, multimedia experiences), solo and with platforms including Scatter, Magic Eden, and Abstract. Full-stack development, graphic design, project management, and product design across a global team.
- Collaboration with Chiffon Magazine, sponsoring their London Design Festival exhibition.
- Collaboration with HappyUFO, delivering bespoke product designs for sponsored artists.
JavaScript · PHP · Python · Phaser.js · PlayCanvas · Defold (Lua/C++)
RoleCatcher — Timelines & CV Writers Directory
Full-Stack Developer · Mar 2022 – Dec 2022
Built a 'Timelines' app procuring job-search-relevant social posts outside standard rate limits, and a 'CV Writers Directory' serving scraped data dynamically via Django templates.
Python · Django · PostgreSQL · JavaScript/jQuery · HTML/CSS
Pfizer Ltd
2014 – 2022Laboratory Scientist
- Multiple roles across R&D in Chemical R&D, Analytical R&D, Drug Product Design, Production Support and QA. Oversaw and supported university collaborative projects (+ Erasmus) on drug-dissolution analysis methodologies; contributed to work published in peer-reviewed journals.
- HP/UP-LC/MS method development, and LC/MS instrument maintenance, modelling, and computational toolsets.
- Use and troubleshooting of bespoke software packages for quantitative and qualitative analysis, design of experiments.
- Achieved 'Registered Scientist Technician' (RSciTech) accreditation via the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Founded and maintained an intra-organisational apprentice network — initiation, secretary role, site development, and leading meetings and guest talks.
- Independently investigated 'green chemistry' alternatives: alternative solvents, deep eutectic mixtures, and novel crystallisation methods.
Publications & Areas of Research
- TIM-1 GI Simulator - Crohn's investigation
Investigating the Impact of Crohn's Disease on the Bioaccessibility of a Lipid-Based Formulation with an In Vitro Dynamic Gastrointestinal Model, Effinger et al. (2021)
- TIM-1 GI Simulator - Crohn's investigation, solubility DoE
Gastrointestinal diseases and their impact on drug solubility: Crohn's disease, Effinger et al. (2020)
- TIM-1 GI Simulator - Computational Modelling
Digitalizing the TIM-1 Model Using Computational Approaches─Part Two: Digital TIM-1 Model in GastroPlus, Hens et al. (2023)
- LC/MS Method Development - QSRR Modelling
Error measures in quantitative structure-retention relationships studies, Taraji et al. (2017)
- LC/MS Method Development - QSRR Modelling for DoE
Structure Driven Prediction of Chromatographic Retention Times: Applications to Pharmaceutical Analysis, Szucs et al. (2021)
Royal Society of Chemistry
2019 – 2022Member, RSc
Member and attendee of RSc meetings and industry conferences, demonstrated working knowledge and experience in application process.
University of Kent
2019 – 2022BSc in Applied Chemical Sciences
Chemical transformations, chromatographic techniques, critical assessment of clinical-trial data, computational modelling, quantum computational chemistry, and advanced therapeutic agents. Thesis: whether drug-dissolution methodologies can replicate in-vivo supersaturation observations for select generic pharmaceuticals.
University of Kent
2016 – 2019FdSc Chemical Sciences (First) · SIAS Level 5 Laboratory Scientist Apprenticeship
Foundation degree in Chemical Sciences alongside a Level 5 apprenticeship.
East Kent College
2014 – 2016Level 3 BTEC Diploma in Applied Sciences · SIAS Level 3 Laboratory Technician Apprenticeship
Chemistry, physics, biology, statistics, and applied mathematics.