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Bob Richards

Email: aboqsk@r.postjobfree.com

Address: * ******* *****

City: Columbine Valley

State: CO

Zip: 80123

Country: USA

Phone: 303-***-****

Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: 120

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William Robert (Bob) Richards Home Phone 303-***-****

3 Riviera Court Cell Phone 720-***-****

Columbine Valley, CO 80123 email: aboqsk@r.postjobfree.com

My work and life experiences include:

Sales of Long Term Care Insurance and supplemental life, heath, accident and short term disability insurance for the past two years. I have an appointment with AFLAC.

Following the Earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, I and my wife went to Sendai on Honshu for two months to help our children residing there recover from the physical and psychological damage that resulted.

Working with five colleagues to publish and market an investment newsletter covering the nascent satellite radio industry. My partners were a reporter for a major newspaper, an automotive engineer, a radio personality in a major city, a medical doctor and an experienced venture capitalist. Our publication was a modest financial success for its 2 years of life and a great learning experience for all of us.

Owning and operating an office building which served as a small business incubator. I bought the building out of bankruptcy, substantially improved its operating costs and increased tenancy, finally selling it at a profit after 5 years. I halved utility costs for the building by replacing all T12 florescent bulbs with more efficient T8 bulbs, improving insulation and improving HVAC operation. I introduced a high speed internet access to the building and introduced the tenants to its use. Owning and operating a 12 unit apartment building for 16 years through bad and then good times, selling it at a profit.

Operating a consultancy serving medical product manufacturers having significant quality assurance, regulatory affairs and product liability issues. It was my role to work with the managers and other employees at companies to define the problems, develop an action plan, communicate with senior management and with regulatory officials and implement the resultant approved plan. I also conducted product failure investigations and gave expert testimony and advice in product liability matters. My best known client was the Shiley Division of Pfizer. I conducted a failure investigation of the Shiley Heart Valve including a review of the quality assurance operations and gave testimony as to my opinions.

I was the Vice President of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs for Cobe Laboratories, Inc. This company was a significant provider of equipment and supplies for Kidney Dialysis and for Open Heart surgical procedures. The products are life supporting and life sustaining and as such, the company operations were closely monitored by the US Food and Drug Administration. I had a staff of life and physical scientists and engineers to help the company comply with regulations related to the design, manufacture and sale of products. During my tenure, the FDA Commissioner, Donald Kennedy paid a visit to the regional FDA office and our company was selected to host a visit for him to see our company operations. We were selected because of our excellent quality reputation. Also during my tenure, I proposed to build a large scale Cobalt 60 irradiator to process our substantial volume of disposable products that must be assured to be sterile. I obtained the funding, selected vendors and managed the construction of the facility. The sterility operations reported to me throughout my tenure and I initially served as Radiation Safety Officer. I interacted with the Colorado State Department of Health in that role.

As VP of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs, it was my responsibility to monitor the product development process and the performance of products in use. I established two advisory boards whose members were physicians engaged in the practice of open heart surgery and Nephrology respectively. I and my staff presented product ideas and issues to them for their input and advice.

I had two positions with Becton Dickinson, Inc. (BD). This company is an important producer of sterile laboratory and medical devices and of laboratory reagents. My first position was as the R&D Manager for Spectra Biologicals, a producer of Blood Banking reagents and associated supplies. In that role, I coordinated a multisite engineering program to redesign a special purpose centrifuge used for the automated conduct of the Coombs Test for antihuman globulin. The program was needed because the original centrifuge had unreliable electronics and did not consistently add the Coombs reagent to the test samples. The redesigned system was a substantial improvement. I also managed the development of an improved Coombs reagent for the centrifuge.

My second position with BD was as the Manager of Quality Assurance for the BioQuest manufacturing facility in Oxnard, CA. This role expanded my responsibility beyond that for Spectra Biologicals by adding quality assurance for a large injection molding plant having about 1000 employees. The plant produced sterile injected molded laboratory ware such as Petri dishes, Pipettes, and Tissue Culture Flasks. Sterilization methods included use of Ethylene Oxide gas and Ultraviolet radiation. UV was used for tissue culture products because gas residuals would have made the surfaces unable to support tissue culture growth. Because UV is not capable of sterilizing a mass that is opaque to it, e.g. a dust particle, there were instances in which a satisfactory probability of sterility was not achieved by its use and there was a substantial cost to rejecting and scrapping such product. I developed a recovery process for such product in which I designed holders for cobalt 60 source rods at an Atomics International facility and used their facility to expose product to a fairly uniform gamma flux sufficient to achieve a satisfactory probability of sterility and eliminate scrap losses.

Also, while in the role of Quality Assurance Manager for BioQuest, I met the requirements for a MBA at Pepperdine University. I chose a study of Flexible working hours upon the productivity of a test and a control group of my inspection staff. I found that allowing flexibility in working hours for these women, largely working mothers, led to their producing about 5% more per hour than produced by women in the control group of inspectors.

While a graduate student at UC Berkeley, I was the laboratory director for a course in Radiation Biology for high school teachers. This was a National Science Foundation program. We performed tracer studies in plants and small animals using isotopes such as P32 and we exposed groups of mice to gamma radiation doses up to about two times that which begins to result in death and observed the time course of the effects. I did this for 4 summer courses.

My first professional positions were as Senior Engineer with the General Electric Company, first with the Atomic Power Equipment Department in San Jose, CA and later with the Specialty Control Department in Waynesboro, VA. While at APED, I was given the task of developing an improved method of detecting reactor control rod position and motion. I had moderate success given the state of electronic arts by using signals from reed relays used to power position indicating lights. I assisted in studies of Beta, Gamma and Neutron fluxes upon function of several, low, medium and high explosives materials. At Specialty Control, I designed numerical controls for machine tools. I also conducted stability studies of a very large gantry machine tool using an analog computer.

My educational background is:

High School graduate of Campion Academy in Loveland Colorado.

BSEE, Walla Walla College. I achieved a ranking of 99 percentile on the Graduate Record Examination for Engineers.

Master of Bioradiology (Health Physics) UC Berkeley where I was a Health Physics Fellow.

Ph.D, Biophysics UC Berkeley where I was a NSF biophysics Training Grant Fellow.

Master of Business Administration, Pepperdine University, Malibu CA.

I am a professional engineer with Colorado registration number 25549

I am a licensed life, health and accident insurance producer with Colorado registration number 366393 and national registration number 16015065

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