DAVID W. HAGERTY

acap1z@r.postjobfree.com

Cell 302-***-****

OBJECTIVE

I am seeking a fulltime or contract position as a team member in a lab

setting. I am a responsible, reliable employee with outstanding computer

skills and excellent references.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

March 2012 - Present Lab Technician

Dwyer Instruments, Michigan City, In

FlowLab

NIST Certifying Flowmeters and other Dwyer products, working in Engineering

Lab testing when Flowlab is slow.

Feb 2011 - June 2011 Lab Technician

Cathay Pigments, Valparaiso, In

Testing Lab

QC tests of pigment samples from production lots. Testing includes pH,

titration, surface area, color work (Draw-downs, color comparisons, mixing)

March 2010 - Sept 2010 Test Technician II

Advanced Technology Services (Caterpillar Technical Center) Peoria, IL

Strain Gauge Laboratory

Strain Gauge applications on Caterpillar engine parts to understand

internal stresses.

May to September 2008 Test Lab Technician (Contract Job)

Case New Holland, Burr Ridge IL

Applied Mechanics Area, Reaction Floor

Strain Gauge applications on prototype structural parts for large

agricultural tractors. Stress- Coating to determine

proper gauge application areas. Mounting and testing tractor frames under

real life conditions, to determine ultimate strength of the prototype

parts.

Calibration Lab - Calibrating & repairing Pressure Sensors, building small

PCBs, cables for different applications. Thru-hole soldering and repair of

Circuit Boards.

1982 - 2006 Senior Lab Technician

Hercules Incorporated, Wilmington DE

This position involved detailed physical property testing on a wide variety

of materials being made with Hercules products. Negotiation and

communication of test specifications and results for onsite and visiting

international chemists. Findings were prepared and presented using Excel

spreadsheets, graphs, and MS PowerPoint. All Tests were ASTM certified.

Results were entered into LIMS for transmittal to customer.

CAREER TRACK AT HERCULES

1982 - 1984 Merigraph QC Lab Technician

QC of new chemicals and raw materials; QC of production pre-polymers and

resins. Physical testing of cured resin plates

1984 - 2006 Mechanical Properties Lab Technician

1997 - 2006 Lab Supervisor

Feb 2007 Consultant (Concrete Construction Lab)

General Tasks:

All types of Instron Testing in compliance with ASTM, TAPPI, & ANSI Test

Methods including tensile, flexural, peel, tear, compressive, torsional,

and high/low temperature testing. Equipment setup and calibration.

Designed numerous test methods for TestWorks and TestStar II Data

Acquisition Systems. Use of Lab View Data Acquisition System for certain

specific test setups.

Proficient in the following types of tests:

Physical and Electrical Properties of Paper

Mullen Burst

D.C. Surface Resistively

M.I.T. Folding Endurance Test

Tribo-Electric Measurements

Gurley Porosity

Taber Stiffness

Crepe-Adhesion Testing and Crepe Simulation experiments

Physical and Electrical Properties of Plastics

Water Vapor Transmission & Gas Permeability

DC Surface and Volume Resistivity Measurements

Melt Flow

Pill Compaction Simulation

Heat Distortion

AC Dielectric Strength Measurements

Elmendorf Tear

Taber Abrasion

Precision Electronic Calipers

Izod, Instrumented Plate, and Tensile Impact

Vacuum Metallization of samples for Electrical Properties Measurements.

Hardness (Rockwell, Micro-Hardness, Shore A & D)

High-Speed Tensile Tests (MTS Servo-Hydraulic Test Machine)

Precision Strain Gauge Applications and Analysis

Other Physical Properties Tests

Humidity Chambers

Gradient Column Density

Mercury Intrusion Porosimitry

Surface Area Analysis by Nitrogen Adsorption

Bulk Density of Powders

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