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Mark O'Neil-Johnson
Vice President, Analytical Chemistry
  Mark O'Neil-Johnson has 20 years of experience in the field of NMR and application development of NMR to chemical characterization. Mark began his career as a natural products chemist, performing total synthesis of natural products under Professor John McMurry at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His industrial work began at IBM Research, where he worked as a synthetic chemist at the IBM San Jose site. Mark joined IBM Instruments in its inception, starting up the San Jose NMR Demo Lab under the direction of Dr. Charles Wade. In 1987, when IBM left the instruments business, Mark joined Bruker Instruments, setting up the West Coast NMR Demo Lab in the San Jose area. While at Bruker Instruments, Mark's activities included demonstrating NMR at 300, 400 and 500 MHz; leading on-site user training at over 250 customer sites and in-house NMR training courses; developing and demonstrating flow NMR and LC-NMR-MS capabilities and developing NMR applications with scientific collaborators.