Project Manager Engineer

Michael C. Martin, Ph.D

**** ***** ***** **. ****: 937-***-****

Spring Valley, OH 45370 Cell: 937-***-****

email: **********@***.**.***

Objective: Seeking a Product Design / Manufacturing / Supply Chain position as Project Manager / Director /

Team Coordinator IP Portfolio Manager Transition Manager requiring strong technical,

project management and supply chain development skills. Strong interest in technical problem

solving, and development of successful manufacturing processes and procedures to build products,

within cost and schedule constraints.

Summary: Over thirty five years of experience in engineering design, product manufacturing and business

development with a demonstrated track record of accomplishment. Able to think outside the

box, has a whatever it takes attitude to resolving practical problems and ensuring that key

project deliverables are completed on time, within budget and according to customers

specifications.

Proven ability to lead a team of professionals, including assignment and coordination of work

activities, technical design, personnel development and management activities, and raise the level

of technical and business staff on the team. Demonstrated ability to liaise between Product

Development and Marketing staff. Ability to coordinate technical successes with intellectual

property business protections through admittance to prepare and prosecute patent applications

before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) as a registered Patent Agent.

Broad based and successful Technical and Management experience in Electronic, Electro-ceramic

and Electro-Mechanical systems in both very large corporations (General Dynamics) and very

small companies (Composite Specialties, Inc.). Participated at the corporate level, developing

strategy pertaining to project and product development, and building teams to carry out said

strategy. Designed and manufactured over a hundred products utilizing circuit design,

electromechanical controls and/or electro-optics; many of these product lines grossed over a

million dollars each, including several with Dr. Martin s patented infrared sensor. Valuable

experience in leading hardware design, specification, test method, failure diagnosis, yield analysis,

and corrective action identification efforts.

Skills and Accomplishments:

2004 Present Vice President of Alternative Energy Technology

EDISON MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY CENTER (EMTEC)

. Built/participated in over seventy State and Federally sponsored industrial product

development teams.

. Participated on teams that won two R&D100 awards:

- 2006: Ultrafast Nanostructured Hydrogen Sensor (Argonne National Lab, Makel

Engineering)

- 2011: CermaClad (MesoCoat and Oak Ridge National Lab)

. Led the development of Ohio s Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Infrastructure technology cluster.

- Developed and sponsored forty-four projects with Ohio companies

. Participated in the State of Ohio Third Frontier Program in over thirty projects

. Participated in the preparation and execution of over forty successful proposals requiring

collaboration with multiple industrial partners valued at over $100M, including Principal

Investigator on eight collaborative projects valued at $21.6M

. Coordinated and hosted multiple seminars on fuel cells and patent law.

- Membrane Electrode Assembly Manufacturing Symposium for three years.

- National Fuel Cell Research Center short course for six years.

. Counseled small and medium sized companies on supply chain, product development IP.

Michael C. Martin, Page 2

Ph.D

Materials Science Engineering (Fuel Cell / Energy Technology) MS and PhD

1996 - 2003

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA at IRVINE, CA : Grain Boundary Analysis and Ionic

Conductivity of Superplastic Cubic Zirconia for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrolytes.

1994 2002 Engineering Manager & Chief Engineer & Part Owner

COMPOSITE SPECIALTIES INCORPORATED, Corona, CA

. Designed all electronics-based products and associated test equipment and procedures

. Developed processes and procedures to manufacture, test and certify products per FAA.

. Electro-mechanical design of coffee maker patented infrared level sensor (US Patent 5,687,635)

. Designed innovative coffee maker improvements: electronic vent valve; solid state relay.

. Modified existing oven design with a solid state power controller for superior EMI performance.

. Designed a water resistant cart controller that won accolades at United Airlines.

1990 1993 Engineering Consultant, Clients included Composite Specialties, Pegasus Technology, Superior

Metal Shapes, Driessen Aircraft.

. Circuit design, ACAD drawing capture, CNC programming, machine repair. SPICE and

PCAD for requirements and concept through to CCA layout and CCA routing.

1979 1989 GENERAL DYNAMICS, Pomona Division, Pomona, CA

Senior Project Engineer Standard Missile Production Program Office

. Management and coordination of guidance-system design or manufacturing electronics, and

technical management of NAVSEA contract line items for improving missile performance.

Electronic Engineer Electro-Optics Guidance Design Group

Technology areas and specific Experience and Accomplishments during this period include:

. GaAs hyper-abrupt varactor diode failure analysis and process development. Successful

technology transfer for multiple sources at dramatically improved yield and reduced cost.

. Thin- vs thick-film resistor array production yield improvement and cost reduction.

. Guidance and Autopilot System yield improvement through root cause failure diagnosis, leading

to design, test and assembly corrective action identification.

. VHSIC applications and CMOS standard cell in-house IC design. Included 20 year strategic plan

modification to hire a 12-person design team. First 15 designs were first pass successes!

. Data telemetry instrumentation and horizontal integration of propulsion test vehicle. Overcame

a 4-month schedule slip in three months.

. Oversaw 28 engineers on three shifts trying to build a dozen IR guided bombs. We hit 7 for 7 at a

NAVY flight test!

1976 1978 Principal Investigator

McDONNELL DOUGLAS ASTRONAUTICS, Huntington Beach, CA . Acoustic CM and CCM.

1968 1973 Production Supervisor

DICKSON ELECTRONICS INC., Mesa, AZ. Tantalum capacitor manufacturing facility.

Education: (Electronic & Material Science Engineering)

PhD-MSE, University of California at Irvine, 2003

MS-MSE, University of California at Irvine, 2000 (GPA 3.9)

ME-EEP, University of California at Los Angeles, 1979

BSE-EE, Arizona State University, 1976 (Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi)

USPTO Patent Bar, 2008, as a registered patent agent (63,567).

A list of References and Presentations/Publications will be provided upon request.

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