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WETLAB’s Newest Team Member

Western Environmental Testing Laboratory – WETLAB would like to introduce our newest employee.  Bruce Trotter has joined WETLAB as our new Laboratory Manager.  Bruce has over 23 years of experience in increasing roles within the laboratory at several companies.  His experience is enhanced by his Bachelor’s degree in Biological Conservation and his Master’s in Biology.

As Laboratory Manager, Bruce is responsible for the overall leadership of the laboratory department and the laboratory staff.  Bruce will lead our efforts in these areas:

• Plan and implement the overall policies, procedures and services for the laboratory department.
• Ensure effective and efficient departmental operations, including quality control and compliance adherence.
• Organize and direct daily activities of the laboratory and is responsible for supervising the laboratory personnel.
• Work with product development teams to manage new product development.

WETLAB is excited about Bruce’s arrival and look forward to developing a stronger laboratory product.  If you have any questions or comments for Bruce you may stop by the Sparks location at 475 E. Greg St., Suite 119 Sparks, NV 89431, call him directly at (775) 200-9884 or email to brucet@wetlaboratory.com.

Staff Profile: Andy Smith

One of the qualities we pride ourselves on here at WETLAB are the relationships that we've built with our clients over the years and, at least in our opinion, you can't build relationships if you don't know anything about us so we've decided to start profiling our staff so our readers can get to know a little more about our past, present and future...

Name: Andy Smith
Position: QA/Technical Director

Andy is originally from Phoenix, AZ. He attended Adams State College in Alamosa, CO where he graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry in May 1996. During college he spent time in two different jobs. One was as a lab assistant for organic chemistry and general chemistry labs for about 3 years. The other position, for about a year, was in a BOR lab off-campus as a lab technician and sampler. After graduation, while still in Phoenix, he worked for Rosarita Mexican Foods as a QA technician checking food and can quality for 1 year. Next, he began working for Aqualab (later Acculabs) in the wetchemistry department. He later moved into metals. A few years later, he moved to Reno, NV to work for Acculabs with Michelle Sherven (formerly Kramer).

Since working for WETLAB (formerly Acculabs) he has done pretty much everything. He has been a wetchemistry analyst, a metals analyst, supervisor, laboratory manager, and now QA/Technical director. His training spans everything our lab currently offers, as well as in-depth training by the manufacturers for our IC, ICPMS and Lachet equipment. Also, he had a one day stint as a fish fossil digger in Kemmerer, WY!

Andy fills his time outside work being an avid fan of ice hockey (and even playing some when he gets the chance) and skateboarding. He has also recently started taking boxing classes at TMCC and his favorite author is Michael Crichton.

Feel free to contact Andy at andy@wetlaboratory.com