CHASE R. TAYLOR

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402-***-**** Westminster, CO 80030

Experienced Chemical and Materials Engineer having over three years of design engineering and process control experience in the refining of special nuclear materials and over two years of hands on laboratory and processing equipment experience. Engineering experience focused on developing and implementing solutions to technical issues, documenting safe work procedures, large data management, improvement identification, and programming solutions. Very trustworthy and accountable, shown by ability to maintain a Department of Energy security clearance and participate in a further program to ensure performance reliability in the field.

EDUCATION

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL June ‘11

Master of Science in Materials Science and Engineering GPA: 3.73/4.00

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE May ‘09

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering; Bachelor of Science in Mathematics GPA: 3.45/4.00

EXPERIENCE

Y-12 National Security Complex ● Oak Ridge, TN December ‘11 to April ‘15

Y-12 employs advanced technologies to protect, purify, and produce materials and components used in the nuclear fuel and weapons industry. Y-12 is the only U.S. facility to purify enriched uranium.

Dismantlement and Assembly Process Engineer

Gained diversified experience on the mechanical design of complex classified devices

Led unique design teams to develop functional requirements and material specifications

Initiated data analysis for a variety of projects and processes to identify trends and improvements

Operated research reactor and instrumentation and documented findings for deployment

Nebraska Department of Roads ● Lincoln, NE November ‘09 to September ‘10

The Material & Research group maintains and updates the quality assurance of materials and products used in the field on construction projects by performing materials testing, research, and failure analysis.

Analytical Chemist

Analyzed chemical makeup and maintained databases for quality control of bitumen and cement

Identified a weakness in interpretation of samples and built an Excel VBA Macro to address it

NASA Langley-Advanced Materials and Processing Branch ● Hampton, VA Summer ‘08 & ‘09

Summer Research Assistant

Developed methods to measure optoelectronic properties of Carbon Nanotube/Polyimide films

Tailored material composition which resulted in a patent and conference presentation

University of Nebraska-Lincoln ● Lincoln, NE August ‘08 to May ‘09

Student Analytical Laboratory Teaching Assistant

Described the mechanics, theory, and results of analytical instruments to students

Clariant AG ● Muttenz, Switzerland November ‘07 to May ‘08

Analytical Chemist Intern

Responsible for preparing a database for the Environmental Cataloging Project (REACH)

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PROJECTS

Macro Used to Predict Completion of Weapon Qualification

Recognized and initiated process improvement project to identify time to completion and pass/fail rate from the initial process data resulting in time savings and early identification of problems

Optimization of Packaging for Nuclear Waste Materials

Identified a significant waste of company resources in manually sorting nuclear waste and produced a VBA Macro that saved 10% in capital costs and 90% of engineering staff costs for the project

Equipment and Process Identification from Dynamic Modeling

Provided recommendations on equipment required to meet throughput after doing dynamic discrete modeling on data organized from interpretations of historical and expert information

Density Functional Theory (DFT) Analysis of Molecules Found in Interstellar Medium

Worked with DFT to calculate absorption spectra of molecules predicted to exist in space

Computational Modeling of a Friction-Stir Weldable Aluminum for Aerospace Applications

Used Thermo-Calc to develop an alloy that met specifications needed by the Boeing Company

DFT and Monte Carlo Analysis on a Hypothetical Hydrogen Storage Material

Analyzed stoichiometrically similar compounds and used DFT and Monte Carlo to predict structure of our hydrogen storage material and predict pressure and temperature of operating conditions

PUBLICATIONS

NASA invention disclosure, LAR 17746-1, “Lightweight Flexible Energy Manageable Polymer Nanocomposites”, innovated J.H. Kang, C. Taylor, et al.

J. H. Kang, C. R. Taylor, et al., “Solar absorbance and thermal emittance characterization of nanostructured materials”, SPIE Photonics, San Francisco, CA, January 26, 2010.

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

International Assoc. for the Exchange of Students for Tech. Experience, President 2008 & 2009

Organized fundraising projects and raised over 20 research related jobs for foreign exchange students

Hosted a regional conference and organized two group trips to the national conference

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Treasurer 2009

Helped found organization at UNL and balanced annual and project budgets

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Laboratory

Extensive analytical experience with wet chemistry methods, Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES), Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF), Ultraviolet-Visual (UV/VIS), Digital Scanning Calorimeter (DSC), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Infrared (IR), and Atomic Absorption (AA) spectroscopy

Computer Software

Extensive Knowledge and Experience with AutoCAD, MathCAD, and Excel

Experience with Finite Element Analysis methods and Thermo-Calc

Knowledge of Materials Computational Methods like Density-Functional Theory, Molecular Dynamics, and Lennard-Jones

Computer Language

Experience using SAP, HTML, CSS, Java, AJAX, C++, UNIX, Python, Visual Basic for Applications, and Fortran

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