Mark Colowit (ac4ifv@r.postjobfree.com)

* ********** *****, **********, ** 15215

412-***-****

Career Summary & Objective: Laboratory Professional

Key Skill Set:

• Performed HPLC & CG Chromatography, Did data analysis. Originated and maintained laboratory lab book and logbooks

• Wrote procedures, did graphic analysis of data in excel

• Made one-off hand-built prototypes for research purposes

• Wrote project summaries for managers and handled customer inquiries regarding products

• Ordered chemicals and equipment

• Responsible for safekeeping of high value items and material, e.g. platinum, gold metal

• Operated Leco C, S, and O analytical machines

• Operated XRD and XRF analytical machines, operated refractometers

• Performed wet chemistry techniques, e.g. protein digestion, nutrient analysis, ash content, etc.

• Performed micrometer, vernier caliper, and other detailed dimensional measurements

• Performed tensile test and related metals analysis, including Rockwell hardness and compositional analysis

• Operated data acquisition software

• Worked in high temperature, toxic gas environments

• PPE knowledgable-respirators, metatarsal boots, PAPR’s, PR-97, kevlar, cotton, nitrile latex gloves, hearing protection, electrical protection, aluminized coats

• Fork truck operator’s license, overhead crane operator’s license

• Led product demonstrations for foreign investors

• Led meetings in absence of primary researcher

Experience:

8/2017-Present: Technician Dynamet, Titanium Samples - Receiving; Machining & CNC; grinding & polishing; hardness; tensile strength & elongation; micrography, ICP, and Leco prep; logging data and archiving.

1/2017 Technician, MarkWest Bluestone (hydrocarbon refinery). Ethane, propane, butane, and natural gasoline sample collection and testing using GC, freeze valves, corrosion tests, and wet chemistry testing.

8/2015-2/2016: Senior Technician, Alcoa Technical Center, New Kensington, PA 15068. Materials Characterization Group, Metal sample testing, primarily static testing of aluminum alloys for aerospace and automotive applications, including Young’s modulus determinations, tensile strength, yield points, and elongation; also fatigue crack growth testing including R-curves.

• Successfully participated in qualification testing of proprietary alloys for Boeing and Airbus

• Successfully conducted formability testing for Tesla automotive applications

8/2002-8/2015: Senior Technician, Alcoa Technical Center, New Kensington, PA 15068

Aluminum smelting R&D concentrating on inert anode development in electrochemical smelting. Responsibilities included shift leader role for a team of technicians operating research cells (from bench scale size up to 50,000 amp quarter commercial scale) exploring new methodologies in non-greenhouse gas emitting aluminum production. Duties included high temperature chemical/electrical work in toxic gas environments, operation of state of the art computer controlled testing and data acquisition, professional record-keeping and documentation in laboratory notebooks, thorough safety training and emergency preparedness.

• Shift leader on $300 million+, cutting edge aluminum smelting research project

8/2000-8/2001: Analytical Chemist, H.J. Heinz Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA

Contract quality control Analytical Chemist working through Lab Support Incorporated in the food production industry. Duties included QC wet chemistry and HPLC chromatography in vitamin and nutrient determinations on samples from production facilities for a major food producing corporation.

• Performed essential nutrient quality control on successful new food product launches

4/1991-7/2000: Applications Chemist, Bacharach Incorporated, Blawnox, PA 15238

R&D development of electrochemical and catalytic gas detection sensors. Work included development of new sensor types, as in the successful development and commercialization of halogen-free refrigerant detection sensors, as well as development and refinement of electrochemical sensors for oxygen (using lead anode/gold cathode technology) and carbon monoxide (using fuel cell grade platinum catalysts). Latter required development of proprietary catalyst deposition methodologies on porous teflon membranes.

• Successfully performed new product demonstrations for prospective foreign licensees

• Led new catalytic and electrochemical gas detection sensor testing

9/1989-1/1991: Customer Service Representative, J.C. Penney Catalog, Pittsburgh, PA 15238

Telephone sales representative for catalog operations of a major retail department store.

Education: B.S. Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh; MBA International Business, University of Pittsburgh.

Travel: Willing to travel, valid passport.

Activities: Writing novels, travel, bicycling, painting, lifting weights. Member MENSA.

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