Quality Engineer /Manager

Calvin Beard

***.*****@*****.*** 903-***-****

Chemist

Highlights of Qualifications:

+ Variety of laboratory experience, fuels, process control, and environmental labs. Design, startup, staffing, operation, documentation.

+ Excellent communicator and project manager.

+ Versatile planner and organizer.

Skills and Technical Expertise:

+ Precise laboratory operation, procedure improvements, SOP development.

+ Thorough inventory management, stock, reagents, process materials.

+ Documentation skills including ISO and process documentation.

+ Management skills including nuclear and environmental permitting, safety training and audits, department and staff supervision, new product integration, mine planning.

+ Process troubleshooting skills with electrical, pneumatic and air systems, automated controls, coal and gas pyroprocessing, powder mills, presses, inventory and transportation.

+ Technical skills including statistical analysis, database design, PID and process control programming, chemical and physical testing laboratory operation.

+ Optimization skills including cross functional team leadership, Lean Six Sigma applications.

+ Energetic team motivator and organizer.

+ Flexible work schedule, adaptive to all analytical needs.

Analytical skills: Gas chromatograph for screening PCBs, Karl Fisher, AA, Parr calorimeter, and flash point analyzer. Redesigned controls and maintained calibration of XRF chemical analyzer. Particle size analysis, microscopic image analysis, laboratory automation.

Work Experience:

+ Tyler Junior College – Tyler Texas 2007 – present Presenter at Planetarium, teaching astronomy at public programs.

+ Chapel Hill High School – Tyler, Texas, 2009-present – Chemistry teacher.

+ Vesuvius USA - Tyler, Texas 2006-2009 Process Engineer in Quality Department manufacturing ceramic components. Process improvement, change, and optimization.

+ Holcim Texas; LLP - Midlothian, Texas 2002 – 2005 Quality Manager in manufacture of TxDOT certified cement.

+ Lafarge Corporation –1987 – 2001 Plant Startup Quality Manager of “green field cement plant project” in Missouri, Supervisory Chemist at cement and fuel co-processing plant in Kansas, Product Specialist at Centre De Recherche et de Technique in Montreal.

+ Other experience: Trainer at Family History Library, Boy Scout leader; two sons Eagle rank. Computer graphic artist.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry / Geology UNM - Albuquerque, NM

Certifications: CQE - Certified Quality Engineer and CQA - Certified Quality Auditor – Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project complete for next certification. Dale Carnegie Public Speaking. Certified Public School Teacher [Texas]

Computer skills: AutoCAD, SAP, Rockwell and Honeywell process control; Linux Gambas; Significant digital art experience with Corel Graphics and Photoshop. Microsoft Project, Visio, Access, SQL, Visual Basic & .NET.

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