Re: Can you answer some questions for our project, please?

1.  I am the Technical Director for the Specialty Sweeteners Department of 
the Food Ingredient Sector for Chr. Hansen, Inc. United States Division.  
Most companies have various departments therefore various heads of 
departments.  I happen to be responsible for every technical (scientific) 
aspect involved in my department.  For example all products being shipped 
from our facilities, analyzing and matching competitors samples, quality 
control/quality assurance, and technical presentations to new companies.

2.  I started with Chr. Hansen, Inc (formally Crompton and Knowles) in 
1991 as a Food Technologist.  I have since "moved up the ladder" from Food 
Technologist to Senior Food Technologist to my present position of 
Technical Director six months ago.

3.  I have a Food Science degree from Rutgers University and I am 
presently attending Stevens Institute of Technology for my masters in 
BioChem.
Each school has certain classes that are required for you to achieve a 
science degree.  Your Freshman and Sophmore years are usually you core 
classes (i.e. Chem, Biology, Organic Chem, Math, etc.).  Once you get into 
your third and fourth years you start to become specialized.  Rutgers Food 
Science had classes dealing specifically with Food Science.  I know that 
sounds simple but once you go to college and discover what degree you 
would like to pursue you will understand what that statement means.

4&5.  Yes I do consider myself a scientist.  Although sometimes you deal 
with alot of administrative aspects when you are in charge of an entire 
department.  But we do perform a number of responsibilites each day that 
deal specifically with scientific knowledge.  These include analytical 
procedures in the laboratory, interperating the results to determine the 
cause or outcome, technical service phone calls with new or present 
customers, analytical writting of analysis forms and memo's.