MARK J. TOPOLSKI

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Hendersonville, North Carolina 28739 USA

Cellphone: 828-***-****

Home Telephone: 828-***-****

Home e-mail: ac0zhd@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER OBJECTIVE

I am seeking a responsible position in Metallurgical/Materials Engineering utilizing my talents and experience to help solve customer problems, develop new and novel products, or assist in improving existing production processes & products via a team approach. I’m fascinated by Metallurgical/Materials structure-properties relationships, balancing cost-effective quality manufacturing & value-added end-product properties in supplying a product valued by the customer and an asset to the organization.

EXPERIENCE

SELEE Corporation, a Porvair plc company, Hendersonville, NC. Research Engineer

January 2001 to March 2017

Primarily responsible for metallurgical/materials analytical services support to SELEE Corporation and its Engineered Ceramics division.

Manage & lead user of scanning electron microscope (SEM) with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) analytical capability. Solely vetted the offerings of the range of SEM

& EDS manufacturers against SELEE’s needs before arriving at equipment purchase 4th Quarter 2012.

Assist SELEE internal and external customers in identifying and characterizing product defects as well as sources of process issues.

Developed the powder metal (P/M) processing for making reticulated (open-cell) metal foams via a metal powder/polymer paint-like slurry foam replication process resulting in a sintered powder metal open-cell foam. Metal foams such as cobalt-based superalloy Haynes 25; nickel-based superalloys Hastelloy X, & Inconel 625; and stainless steels 17- 4PH, 440A, 310, 314, & 316; and iron, copper, and silver.

Developed the processing for thin ( 1mm) metal & metal alloy foams.

Developed the processing for brazing reticulated (open-cell) metal foam strut ends to solid substrates via the use of either nickel-based filler metals or silver-based filler metals resulting in the issuing of a US Patent.

Developed the processing for the self-bonding of reticulated copper foam to solid substrates greatly reducing the need for very close thickness tolerance silver-plating, and in some cases the elimination of the need for silver-plating, of the solid substrate.

Familiar with, and have used, LECO Carbon Sulfur & Oxygen Nitrogen analytical equipment in reticulated metal foam process development.

Inventor or Co-Inventor on numerous new idea disclosures. One patent has been issued. Refined my technique for addressing US Patent Examiner rejection of claims.

Co-Inventor on a recently filed US Patent Application for a reticulated ceramic foam filter. California Pellet Mill Company (a part of Ingersoll-Rand Company when hired), Crawfordsville, IN.

Metallurgist (Company's Only Metallurgist)

October 1995 to December 2000

Primarily responsible for researching & developing new longer life and more cost- effective cylindrical pelleting die material & processing combinations for California Pellet Mill (CPM). CPM is an original equipment manufacturer of agricultural and industrial feed- stream pelletizing equipment.

Responsible as CPM's sole Metallurgical Engineer for failure & root cause analysis of failed components for their facilities in Crawfordsville, IN, Merrimack, NH, Waterloo, IA, Wexford Ireland, and Singapore.

Lead Inventor on a U.S. Patent for the new application of an industrially available material and a well documented surface hardening process to manufacturing cylindrical agricultural and industrial feed pelleting dies. This new application can easily be manufactured using existing equipment. Feed pelleting die life has been greatly extended for certain customers over that achieved with carburized low-alloy dies and martensitic stainless steel dies.

Babcock & Wilcox Company, a McDermott company

Research Engineer Ill, Assigned to the Research & Development Division (B&W R&DD), Metallurgical Analysis Section, Alliance, OH.

January 1989 to September 1995

Directly responsible as Principal Investigator for the project management of an Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Department of Energy subcontract.

Responsible as Project Leader for the management of Operating Division research programs involving the development of improved methods for diffusion coating metal objects for enhanced corrosion resistance, and for novel weld-cladding methods.

Responsible as Research Metallurgist for the metallurgical analysis of service components and of manufacturing processes. Developed novel, efficient, reporting style for Operating Division reports.

Inventor or Co-Inventor on numerous new idea disclosures regarding weld cladding, corrosion or wear resistant diffusion coatings, and manufacturing methods. Gained valuable experience at successfully addressing US Patent Examiner rejection of claims of US Patent Applications where I was either the sole or lead inventor. Three new ideas lead to the awarding of U.S. Patents.

Studied the physical metallurgy of 300-series stainless steels;

Studied chromize, chrome-silicon, and chrome-vanadium pack cementation processing; familiar with medium-carbon steel, carbon-molybdenum steel, chrome-molybdenum steel, and austenitic stainless steel fossil-power boiler alloys.

Received project management training. B&W’s R&D Division was project oriented where the investigating engineer managed all aspects of assigned failure analysis or operating division R&D projects.

Received technical report writing training.

Remington Arms Company (a part of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company at the time of my employment), Ilion, NY.

Metallurgical Engineer

July 1982 to December 1988

Developed and implemented state-of-the-art metal injection molding production thermal process. Taking the thermal process from laboratory scale to full production scale. The metal injection molding (MIM) process is used in manufacturing highly-configured, very near full density, net shaped, 3-dimensional metal parts.

Established optimum metal powder size and morphological characteristics for MIM process and developed new powder metal/polymer binder feedstocks for such alloys as Fe-2%Ni, Fe-3%Si, Fe-6%Si, 3l6L, and 410.

Responsible for firearms & external customer parts process development.

Responsible for high temperature pusher-style reducing-atmosphere sintering furnaces, intermediate temperature nitrogen-atmosphere belt furnace, and debinderizing ovens.

Familiar with, and have used, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), differential thermal analysis (DTA), and thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) equipment in MIM process development.

Training received in statistical process control (SPC) via Perry L. Johnson Seminar and design of experiments (DOE) including Taguchi Method. Became familiar with automotive-industry quality programs.

Received technical report writing training.

Attended a DuPont-sponsored Marketing seminar geared towards non-marketing technical staff. Because of this interesting seminar, I’ve read “Marketing Imagination” by Theodore Levitt and “Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors” by Michael Porter.

Drexel University, Department of Materials Engineering, Philadelphia, PA. Research Assistant (Graduate Student)

July 1980 to June 1982

Worked on the initial phase development of a composite powder metallurgy (P/M) aluminum alloy for the Naval Air Development Center, Warminster, PA. The work was in partial fulfillment of the requirements (my thesis) for the degree of Masters of Science. The work consisted of evaluating the mechanical & corrosion resistant properties of P/M full-density processed AA7075 & AA7091 with varying amounts of added Al–17w/o Mn high elastic modulus powder.

Hoeganaes Corporation, Research & Development, Riverton, NJ. Research Assistant (Coop. Education Student)

1978 - 1979

Developed processing-structure-property relationships for P/M soft magnetic alloys, such as: iron, iron-nickel, iron-silicon, and iron-phosphorous. EDUCATION

Drexel University, M.S. (1982) and B.S. (1980) in Materials Engineering U.S. PATENTS AWARDED

Topolski, M.J., “Method of making a brazed metal article and the article formed thereby”, U.S. Patent 7,328,831 awarded February 12, 2008.

Topolski, M.J., Allis, C.R., "Nitrided H-13 Alloy Cylindrical Pelleting Dies", U.S. Patent 6,053,722 awarded April 25, 2000.

Topolski, M.J., "Method for Making Alloying Additions to The Weld Overlay Weld Pool", U.S. Patent 5,569,396 awarded October 29, 1996.

Topolski, M.J., Tanzosh, J.M., "Corrosion Resistant Nickel Oxide Surface Coating", U.S. Patent 5,547,768 awarded August 20, 1996.

Mack, W.C., Tanzosh, J.M., Topolski, M.J., "Surface Hardened 300 Series Stainless Steel", U.S. Patent 5,344,502 awarded September 6, 1994. U.S. PATENT APPLICATION

Olson III, R.A., Willer, M.W., Topolski, M.J., “Boron-Free Aluminum Castshop Ceramic Foam Filter”, U.S. Patent Application 201******** filed February 23, 2017. PUBLICATIONS

Floyd II, D.E., Topolski, M.J., and Darabi, J., “Design and Evaluation of Copper Metal Foams in Cold Plates”, ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Chicago, IL, November 5–10, 2006.

Topolski, M.J., Floyd II, D.E., “Brazing of Open-Celled Copper Foam Flow-Field Elements to Copper Substrates”, 3rd International Brazing & Soldering Conference, San Antonio, TX, April 23-26, 2006.

Topolski, M.J., "Evaluation of the Fabricability of Advanced Austenitic Tubing", Fifth Annual Conference on Fossil Energy Materials, U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy, Advanced Research and Technology Development, Oak Ridge, TN, May 14-16, 1991.

Topolski, M.J., Domian, H.A., "Evaluation of the Fabricability of Advanced Austenitic Tubing", Fourth Annual Conference on Fossil Energy Materials, U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy, Advanced Research and Technology Development, Oak Ridge, TN, May 15-17, 1990.

Koczak, M.J., Topolski, M.J., "Development of a Duplex Al-Zn-Mg/Al-Mn High Modulus P/M Aluminum Alloys", 111th AIME Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX, February 1982.

Moyer, K.H., McDermott, M.J., Topolski, M.J., and Kearney, D.F., "Magnetic Properties of Iron Alloys", Powder Technology, Vol. 30, No.1, Sept-Oct 1981, pp. 51-71.

Topolski, M.J., Agarwala, V.S., Koczak, M.J., "Electro-chemical and Microstructural Characteristics of 7000 and 3000 Series Powder Metallurgy Aluminum Alloys", 13th National SAMPE Technical Conference, October 1981, Mount Pocono, P A., Society for the Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering, Azusa, CA.

Moyer, K.H., Topolski, M.J. McDermott, M.J., and Wisniewski, P., "Predicting DC Properties of P/M Materials", 1979 National Powder Metallurgy Conference, June 1979, Cincinnati, OH., Metal Powder Industries Federation, APMI, Princeton, NJ. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

TMS member

ASM International former member (member for +20 years)

APMI former member

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Have held U.S. Department of Defense "Secret" and U.S. Department of Energy "L" clearance when needed.

INTERESTS

Award-winning winemaking, woodworking, time with my Wife, photography, traveling Southeast Asia.

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