Curriculum Vitae

Stephen J. Johnson

Email: first.middleinitial.last at gmail.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenjjohnson

Summary

  • Academic, technical and marketing editor

  • Environmental, biological, and enhanced oil recovery research professional

  • Works independently or in a leadership role

  • Strong analytical, data science and problem-solving abilities

  • Excellent written and oral presentation skills

  • Project management

Work Experience

January 2020 – present

SENIOR STAFF EDITOR

  • Added supervisory and management duties

January 2017 – January 2020

STAFF EDITOR

Sanaterre Consulting, Lawrence, KS, USA

Contract editorial services for PeerJ

  • Supervise junior Editorial staff (from January 2020)

  • Advise colleagues on matters of ethics, scope, editorial standards

  • Responsible for initial assessment of all submissions for scope, ethical compliance, etc.

  • Identify and investigate possible breaches of ethics

  • Liaison with authors, Academic Editors, reviewers, Section Editors.

  • Policy development and implementation

  • Key role in development of new initiatives including:

    • Extension of PeerJ scope to include Environmental Sciences (2017)

    • Addition of Sections and Section Editors to PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences (2018)

    • Development and launch of PeerJ Analytical Chemistry, PeerJ Physical Chemistry, PeerJ Inorganic Chemistry, PeerJ Organic Chemistry, and PeerJ Materials Science (2019).

January 2005 – May 2017

RESEARCH SCIENTIST & LECTURER

Tertiary Oil Recovery Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

Researcher on DOE and industry-funded projects developing microbial enhanced oil recovery techniques, and nanotechnology for oil and gas applications. Promoted from Postdoctoral Researcher (January 2006).

  • Research

    • Plan and conduct research into improved and enhanced oil recovery

      • supercritical CO2 foam for hydraulic fracturing; biosurfactants to alter wettabilty of carbonate rocks; encapsulation of oilfield chemicals in nanoscale particles

    • Develop experimental and analytical methods; SOPs; risk assessments

    • Write and edit manuscripts for publication

    • Develop grant proposals for internally and externally funded projects

  • Service & Teaching

    • Water Recovery & Reuse Working Group; Open Access Advisory Board

    • Supervise, train and mentor students; Serve on graduate student committees

      • PhD: M. Salehi (2009); R. Barati (2010); W. Li (2016); M. Vassoumeh (2017); W. Gilbert 2016); M. Alhajeri (incomplete)

      • MS: K. Eisert (2006); B. Cook (2008); V. Vaca (2010); C. Bose (2015)

    • Train and mentor staff and postdoctoral researchers

    • C&PE 522 Economic Appraisal of Chemical & Petroleum Projects (Fall 2007)

    • C&PE 219 Drilling Fluids Laboratory (Fall 2016)

    • C&PE 619 Petroleum Engineering Laboratory I (Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

  • Outreach

    • Assist at TORP technology transfer events

    • Meet with visiting seminar speakers, industry partners, etc.

    • Attend field sites, conferences and professional meetings

    • Peer review/editing

      • academic editor for PLOS ONE (October 2010 – January 2017); PeerJ (July 2012 – January 2017)

      • peer reviewer

    • Careers in Petroleum Engineering presentation to High School Girls (2010)

    • KU Natural History Museum - assist in Geology and Aquatic Biology summer camps (2004 – present)

May 2014 – May 2015

FREELANCE EDITOR

Edanz Group Limited, Hong Kong & Tokyo

Provided fast, accurate English language and technical copy editing of environmental science and engineering manuscripts for Chinese and Japanese authors.

October 2003 – May 2004

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW

University of Greenwich, Chatham, UK

Technical manager of a field-scale project to remediate soil contaminated with polyaromatic hydrocarbons, using white-rot fungi and rhizoremediation.

September 2001 – September 2003

MICROBIOLOGY & IT DEMONSTRATOR/LECTURER

Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Demonstrated general and medical microbiological techniques to undergraduates. Trained undergraduates in the use of MS Excel to analyze data and produce charts for inclusion in reports generated in MS Word.

April 2002 – June 2002

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TECHNICIAN

University of Edinburgh, UK

Set up staff and student PCs. Partitioned hard drives; installed operating systems (MS Windows 98SE/NT/2000 and RedHat Linux) and applications; configured networking; diagnosed and repaired hardware problems; instructed end users.

September 2000 – October 2003

WEB DESIGNER/ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT

Sanaterre Consulting, Edinburgh, UK

Freelance commercial web design. Provided information on international contaminated land guidelines.

September 1999 – March 2000

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Cranfield University, UK

Technical support to a project for National Grid Limited. Experimental work in a project to assess the transport and degradation of cable oil in soil; trained student researcher in anaerobic and microbiological techniques.

August 1998 – September 2000

PRODUCT MANAGER

Abington Partners, Bath, UK

Marketed video/datalogging equipment and software; researched and developed datalogging products for science education and research; website design and management.

May 1998 – July 1999

PRODUCT SPECIALIST – BIOLOGY

Philip Harris Education, Shenstone, UK

Returned to this position for three months before leaving to pursue a Master’s degree in Environmental Diagnostics.

May 1995 – May 1998

PROJECT COMMISSIONING ENGINEER

Philip Harris International, UK & Ghana

Installed, commissioned and maintained scientific equipment and materials; computers and datalogging equipment in 110 Science Resource Centres in Ghana, West Africa; 19.7M ($35M) project for the Ghanaian Ministry of Education.

June 1991 – April 1995

TECHNICAL OFFICER/PRODUCT SPECIALIST – BIOLOGY

Philip Harris Education, Shenstone, UK

Technical and marketing support for biological apparatus and materials for a major UK science education supplier; supported data logging equipment and software; wrote instructional and promotional text started as a mainly technical position but was expanded to include more marketing responsibilities including identifying, sourcing and development of new products for biology education; responsible for over 6000 products.

July 1990 – June 1991

QC/QA ASSISTANT

Telford Foods Limited, UK

QC/QA for a major manufacturer of ‘own brand’ breakfast cereals and packet soups; quality control/assurance duties including ingredient and product testing, laboratory analysis of salt and fat content, set up a fat analysis laboratory, staff training.

Education

2000 – 2003

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, University of Edinburgh, UK

“Microbial degradation of linear alkylbenzene cable oil in soil and aqueous culture under aerobic and anaerobic conditions”

Advisors: Prof. D. Andrew Barry & Prof. Nick Christofi

Graduated 7th July 2004.

1998 – 2000

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL DIAGNOSTICS

Institute for BioScience and Technology, Cranfield University, UK

“Monitoring and control of in situ bioremediation of soil contaminated with cable oil”

Advisor: Prof. Naresh Magan

Graduated 8th June 2001.

  • Environmental Legislation and Standards

  • Systems Approach to Environmental Management

  • Biological, Physical and Engineering Principles

  • Industrial and Agricultural Processes

  • The Environment and the Nature of Pollution

  • Environmental Monitoring I: Physical Method

  • Environmental Monitoring II: Chemical Methods

  • Environmental Monitoring III: Biological Methods

  • Remedial Technology I: Water Treatment

  • Remedial Technology II: Gaseous & Solid Waste

1986 – 1990

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONS) IN BIOLOGY

School of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, UK

Graduated 9th July 1990.

Workshops and Short Courses

  • Coursera (www.coursera.org, 2013 – present)

    • Data Scientist’s Toolbox; Computing for Data Analysis; Data Analysis; R Programming; Getting and Cleaning Data; Reproducible Research (Johns Hopkins)

    • Experimentation for Improvement (McMaster University)

    • Learning How to Learn (UCSD)

    • Programming (Python) for Everybody (Michigan University)

    • Statistics One (Princeton University)

    • Songwriting; Introduction to Guitar (Berklee College)

  • University of Kansas (2005 – 2017)

    • Software Carpentry

    • Academic Civility Workshop

    • Project Management Essentials for the Unofficial Project Manager

    • GIS I - Introduction to ArcMap; GIS II - Intermediate ArcMap

    • Conversational Chinese

    • SPSS I - Getting Started; SPSS II - Building SPSS Skills

    • Best Practices of Networking

    • Grant Writing and Submissions

    • NSF Science Communication workshop - Becoming the Messenger

    • Introduction to Photoshop; Intermediate Photoshop

  • Napier University (2002 – 2003)

    • Teaching at University (Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education)

  • University of Edinburgh (2000 – 2003)

    • Project Management

    • Thesis/Paper Writing

    • Scientific Computing Tools: Unix I; Unix II; LaTeX

    • Introduction to Writing Web Pages; More HTML; Advanced Web Pages

Other information

Professional Memberships

  • Chartered Biologist, Member of the Royal Society of Biology (1988 – 2021)

  • Society for General Microbiology (2003 – 2012)

  • Society of Petroleum Engineers (2005 – 2017)

Computing Skills

  • Programming

    • R; RStudio; Rmarkdown

    • Git; GitHub

    • HTML; CSS

    • LaTeX

    • Python (basic)

    • MATLAB (basic)

  • Applications

    • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint); LibreOffice/OpenOffice

    • Inkscape; GIMP; Paintshop

    • Minitab; SPSS/PSPP

    • Endnote; Zotero; Procite; BibTeX

  • Operating Systems

    • GNU/Linux (Ubuntu); Microsoft Windows; OS X; Android

Online Resources

Awards

  • 2000 Finalist, Most Promising PhD Student - Laboratory New Awards

  • 1984 Chief Scout’s Award

Languages

  • English - Native

  • Spanish - Basic

  • French - Basic

Interests

  • Travel; Photography; Hiking; Cycling; SF; Open Access