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Mr. Brien has over 37 years of experience encompassing Organic, Analytical, and Forensic Chemistry in addition to indoor air quality assessments. As manager of the Chemical and Microbiology Laboratories inSacramento,CA, he performs chemical analyses, provides direction and operation of the laboratory and quality assurance. Mr. Brien’s primary activities include fire debris analyses, fungal and environmental testing, materials identification, physical property analyses, and determinations of product failure. He also conducts routine chemical testing including GC, GC/MS, Pyrolysis GC and GC/MS, FTIR, TGA and Microscopy.

• Forensic and Analytical Chemistry
• Fire Debris Analysis – ASTM E1618
• Product Defect and Failure Analysis
• Microbial Investigations
• Microbial Remediation