Gender Male
John began his career in NMR in 1989, machining Double rotation spinning systems (DOR) in Dr. Gary Maciel’s laboratory at Colorado State University (Fort Collins, Colorado). During this time he got to know Dr. Jim Frye, Dr. Cindy Ridneour, and Dr. Charles E. Bronnimann. Through them he met David Lewis, now owner of partner company Revolution NMR,
who was working at Chemagnetics on the same project.
Upon completing his undergraduate degree at CSU, John moved on to a graduate degree in Physical Chemistry at the University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) under the Guidance of Professor Gary Drobny. In Drobny’s research laboratory, John worked on every aspect of SSNMR — from DNA synthesis and sample preparation to Pulse sequence design, and most importantly the development of SSNMR probes. These probes included a 200MHz HFC transmission line style probe, a 400MHz HFXY, and a 750 MHz HC probe. Upon completion of his graduate degree in 1998, John returned to Colorado to join Varian Inc (originally Chemagnetics) as a SSNMR probe designer. At Varian he contributed to the development of a narrow bore (40mm) fully broadband HXY probe line, the Balun probe, the Varian BioMAS probe, a BioStatic probe, and a High Resolution 4mm MAS probe (FastNano).
Most recently, while at Agilent Technologies, John lead an expanding group of engineers focused on nearly every aspect of NMR probe design, the culmination of which was a team of ~10 individuals working to develop one of the most advanced sets of In-The-Bore components ever developed. Unfortunately Agilent’s exit from the NMR market occurred before these components were released to the market. John’s position as COO/CTO of Phoenix NMR now places him in a prime position to bring many exceptional concepts and ideas to the industry and he’s very excited to see where the NMR community takes SSNMR next!
