John David
*** ******* ******., ** ********, WV *5550
**********@****.*** • 304-***-****
Results-focused, big-picture-driven engineer respected for design ingenuity. Excellent acuity for communicating across disciplines and levels of technical understanding, including the delivery of dynamic, in-depth and knowledgeable product presentations to potential customers. Outstanding talent for recognizing and proposing new directions for business success.
Highlights of expertise:
•Pioneering Leadership
•Strategic Direction
•Contract Negotiation
•Project Engineering / Management
•Research & Development (R&D)
•Engineering Documentation
•Budgetary Oversight
•Customer Relations
•Training
Education and Training
BS, Computer Science, GPA 3.84, 2017, 108 credit hours completed
Minor: Mathematics
University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Ohio
MS, Chemical Engineering, GPA 3.4, 1996
BS, Chemical Engineering; Minor: Environmental Engineering, GPA 3.2 in major, 1994
University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
Professional Experience
advantage Solutions, Irvine, CA 2016-present
retail data collector
Collect and record inventory data utilizing existing SKUs. Ensure the placement of new items at all assigned stores. Maintain schematic standards and integrity through consistent communication with Retail Supervisor and other retail personnel.
Cabot Corporation, Marshall, Texas 2010 - 2013
Senior Emissions Control Engineer
Provided technical support to Customers, Field Sales, Systems Engineering, and Business Management in the application of activated carbon into individual coal-fired customer sites. Provided technical information and services to solve application challenges and meet commercial needs related to the sale of activated carbons and activated carbon systems. Other duties included, but are not limited to, the following: maintained a high level of technical expertise regarding the application of activated carbon products in customer systems; developed a high level of technical expertise in the engineering of the injection lance technology utilized by the systems group; interfaced with pertinent members R&D to aid in solving application issues as they arise; made recommendations to customers concerning use of activated carbons, test and evaluation methods, and equipment; assisted and coordinated field trials on activated carbon in full scale test and unit start-up scenarios; authored and/or co-authored technical papers for publication; and participated in relevant professional organizations, trade shows, and conferences.
Babcock and Wilcox Power Generation Group, Barberton, Ohio 2006 – 2009
AQCS Mercury Control Primary Technical Representative
Babcock and Wilcox designs boilers and air pollution control systems for power generation industries. Served as mercury control Subject Matter Expert (SME) for North American region. Performed technical risk assessments and assessed liquid damages during mercury control guarantees. Prepared written and oral responses to internal and external mercury control inquiries. Briefed executive management on data accrued from field tests. Plan and allocate multimillion-dollar engineering budgets. Designed, assembled and operated R&D test equipment. Maintained and updated records on published product literature; reviewed competitor literature and patents to assess potential infringement on internal patents. Authored field test reports, white papers, technical guidelines, and documentation.
•Spearheaded development and implementation of highly effective procedures and documentation for conducting mercury control guarantees.
•Expertly translated product business plans into comprehensive Research & Development (R&D) strategies.
•Skillfully delivered product presentations at conferences, to potential and current customers, leading to a dramatic increase in commercial interest and sales of commercial equipment.
Powerspan Corporation, Portsmouth, New Hampshire 2004 – 2006
R&D Process Engineer III
Directed all aspects of a pilot scale facility of a company that develops and commercializes proprietary, multi-pollutant control technology for electric power plants. Directed a team of peak-performing technicians in the design, development, and testing of world-class technologies. Initiated and executed strategies for design and delivery of commercial systems with multiple operating capacities. Operated, repaired and maintained laboratory electronics systems. Generated and ran daily test plans and data reduction procedures.
•Established groundbreaking new procedure that triggered scale-up of production processes to a commercial level.
Zodiac Inc., Advanced Water Technology, Pompano Beach, Florida 2002 – 2004
R&D Process Engineer II
Zodiac Inc. develops water purification systems. Established and managed execution of production processes for converting key product Nature2® pool media to one that was EPA compliant while releasing active ingredients in the same manner. Supervised and trained teams of production engineers through all production phases. Designed and developed leading-edge tools for testing release properties of active ingredients in Nature2® pool media.
•Authored work instructions and revised Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to match new product specifications.
CERAMEM CORPORATION, Waltham, MA 2001 - 2002
Contract R&D Process Engineer
Assisted in the fabrication and testing of novel sensors; high-temperature polymeric relative humidity sensors, high-temperature copper/palladium deposited hydrogen sensors and mesoporous tin oxide sensors for chemical gas detection. LabView data acquisition software was used for evaluating sensor performance
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 1997 – 2000
Research Assistant
Delivered crucial support in research and development of emerging technologies for university’s chemical engineering department. Leveraged gas antisolvent (GAS) recrystallization process to purify an intermediate product of Cozaar, a pharmaceutically manufactured by Merck & Co. Performed various additional experimentation, modeling, and analytical procedures.
Technical Proficiencies
Platforms:
Windows 10/8
Tools:
Java, Javascript, Labview & Labview PID Toolkit, Graphics, MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access), MS Project, MS Visio, SigmaPlot, SQL, HTML, CSS, Agile Methodology, TCP/IP protocols