Management Manager

John A. Janik,

Miami, FL / e: ****.*****@*****.*** / m: 301-***-****

Operational and strategic leader with a proven track record of entrepreneurial success. Experienced in building business systems and

streamlining operations within a growing technology sector.

HIGHLIGHTED ACHIEVEMENTS

• Raised 1MM+ in VC funding and co founder of start up operation

• Assembled management team consisting of former CEOs and successful current business owners

• Created new products and markets for diamond tooling and optical components

• Developed and closed business with national and international clients

• Managed team of technicians and factory production systems

• Earned 1 of 2 post doctoral fellowships for outstanding research in nationwide competition

• Awarded Key to the City by Mayor Gimenez and The Beacon Council for outstanding Miami business

• Recognized by Miami start up community for strategic thinking and mentorship

• Venture Coach at University of Miami with The LauchPad

EXPERIENCE

Di Amante Industries, LLC/ Miami, FL / October 2010 present

Pioneering start up focusing on the synthesis and manufacturing of single crystal diamond

Operations Manager and President of Business Development

• Managed build out of new facility

o Transformed CBC space into a complete production facility on time in 3 months and under budget by

$400K

o Optimized floor plan and work flow resulting in 20% increase in production efficiency

o Designed and implemented security and loss prevention systems resulting in 24 hour production schedule

and off site production management

• Directed operations: manufacturing procedures, technical training, and vendor relations

o Developed standard operating procedures for production of highly technical process

o Designed and implemented chemical safety protocol

o Translated scientific expertise into specific duties and routines per job function

o Trained technicians in the manufacture of diamond by translating complicated processes into simplified

routines

• Developed new markets for CVD diamond products

o Closed multiple national and international contracts

o Developed new products for tools clients to exacting specifications

o Developed new optical grade diamond product for military applications

o Managed product flow and quality for life of the contracts

• Increase operational system capacity by modeling optimal production metrics:

o Decreased machine change over down time to 15 minutes from 4 hours

o Increased production runtime from 12 to 72 hours resulting in higher quality growth of diamond film

o Developed new diamond growth technology improving production capacity output by 900%

o Improved quality of diamond material to D color from G and below and VS2 clarity and better from I1

Janik Advanced Materials, LLC / Miami, FL /October 2009 October 2010

Boutique consulting firm specializing in operations improvement

Operations Consultant

• Demand forecasting/Business Modeling

o Consolidated and analyzed three years of sales, pricing and inventory

o Designed and validated demand forecasting algorithm to predict volume and price of perishable

commodities for a sector leading importer

• Structured model for business information systems

o Implemented algorithm in customer’s SQL database minimizing waste for client

o Created entire automation of analysis for purchasing department

Carnegie Institute for Science / Washington, DC / September 2008 – October 2009

World leading independent research organization with

Post doctoral Fellow/ Project Management

Carnegie Fellow; focusing research on chemical vapor deposition of diamond

• Single crystal diamond

o Developed new techniques and gas chemistry to grow colorless and flawless diamond

o Improved growth rate of type IIa diamond by over100%

o Increased the technological value and broadened the range of potential applications for synthetic diamond

materials

• Oversaw all laboratory operations including scheduling, junior researchers, group lab meetings

• Technical writing including grants, budgets, journal article

• Data analysis of large scale experiments

• Organized weekly research seminar for laboratory

SAIC / McLean, VA/Tallahassee, FL / November 2007 August 2008

Fortune 500 defense company with 40K employees providing science and engineering solutions.

Nuclear Detection Specialist

Consulting intermediary between the private sector and the Department of Defense

• Enforcement of contracts, management support, scientific advisor

• Developed standard operating procedures compatible with government standards

Florida State University/National High Magnetic Field Laboratory / Tallahassee, FL May 2003 – July 2008

Tier 1 research university with a National Laboratory on campus

Graduate Research Assistant

Ph.D. student and graduate researcher

• Design and execution of research projects from concept to published result

o 12 peer reviewed publications with 277 citations

o Crystal growth of exotic new magnetic and superconducting materials

o Characterization of bulk properties of materials

• Analysis of large data sets to validate physical models

o Designed 50K+ line programs

• Managed laboratory

o Responsible for purchasing and safety in laboratory

o Managed junior researchers

EDUCATION

Florida State University, Ph.D. 2008

Condensed Matter Physics

Virginia Tech, B.S, 2002

Physics

Virginia Tech, B.S, 2001

Mathematics

Referenced Available Upon Request

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