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This is the home of the Alexander Turfa personal space.

Contact information

Email address: alex dot turfa at gmail dot com

Personal information

Currently seeking a full-time position; involved with consulting & contract work in the meanwhile.

Most recently Senior Information Scientist at Arkema's North America R&D campus in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania USA

Chiefly responsible for evaluating the novelty of ideas in R&D (chemistry & polymer science/technology) 

PhD in physical chemistry (theoretical/computational) molecular collisional phenomena & chemical reactions; experience in experimantal R&D (pH measurement & other chemical sensor application areas) before transition to information role (originally at a small high-tech start-up company)

Please do not leave this page without at least adding your email address as explained in the Personal Spaces Quick Reference Guide.

That QRG further explains:

PIUG members are strongly encouraged to create and maintain add Personal Spaces as their professional portals. These may contain multiple pages as well as attachments, e.g. resumes, that would be appropriate to highlight one's professional life. The Personal Space is similar to committee, task force and committee spaces but only the registered user controls the content. Some tips follow.

Theme - When setting up the Personal Space for the first time, be sure to use the default "Adaptavist Theme Builder" theme. After that, the choice should be PIUG Main Layout. Users may be creative and try other or create other layouts, but then users would not have the top menu bar and left-side navigation that they would be used to on almost all the other spaces within the PIUG Wiki. Further changes to the layout Personal Space layout would have to be coordinated with the site administrator (piugwikimaster @ gmail.com). The PIUG Main Layout requires the users to add a photo or assign a placeholder avatar.

Editing Content - Users may edit their personal spaces at any time using the "Edit Personal Space" link under the username menu item in the top menu bar.

Email addresses - If you set up a Personal Space, users will be directed in links to it rather than to your Personal Profile. The latter includes your email address by default. However, your Personal Space is blank and contains no contact information. Please be sure to add your email address at minimum in your Personal Space. Consider disguising the email address with spaces around the @ sign to keep spammers from harvesting the password, e.g. piugwikimaster @ gmail.com. Links to personal webpages and LinkedIn pages are also frequently useful.

Blogging - A new "blog" function is now available in the Confluence wiki function. See the [Blog Testing Page] in the Sandbox space for explanation of available functionality and usage.

See the Confluence Help page on "Setting up your personal space" for more information. Note that this is generic Confluence help and does not include specific functionality and themes available on the PIUG wiki implementation.