Richard Hoshowski

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Hone phone 847-***-****

E-mail: r2davn@r.postjobfree.com

Qualifications:

Extensive experience in analytical and process control equipment. Calibrate and repair of equipment including three phase applications. Worked both in R&D and manufacturing so can work under pressure.

Work well with little supervision also like working in teams.

Professional Experience:

10/10-06/11 Volt Technical Service at VWR world wide

3951 Wilk Rd Arlington Heights IL.

Calibration and Validation Technician for the Midwest.

+ Calibrated and validated equipment

08/06-11/08 Kelly Services at Hospira Worldwide, Inc

1400 Sheridan North Chicago, IL

Instrumentation and Repair Technician

+ Calibration of gas monitors for safety

+ Calibration of inspection booths for proper product release

+ Also calibration of : freeze dryers; auto claves; solution tanks; resistivity meters;

pH and conductivity meters; pressure switches; vacuum and pressure gages

VHP sterilizers and differential pressure gages.

+ Trained in confined space entry

+ Trained in lock out tag out

03/06-08/2006 Sears 2063 George Street Melrose Park , IL

Repair Technician

+ Trained in Safe operation of yard equipment

+Trained in troubleshooting yard equipment

+ Dealt with inventory and customers

11/2004-5/2005 Manpower at Motorola 1301 East Algonquin road Schaumburg, IL

Quality Control Technician

+ Checked orders

+ Checked operation of functions on radios

+ Added programs to radios

+ Checked for defects and water tightness

09/2002-06/2004 Septran Wheeling, IL

School bus driver

+ Got CDL and permit to drive school bus.

08/2001-09/2002 Associated Research 13860 West Laurel Dr. Lake Forest , IL 60045

Calibration & Repair Technician

+ Setup calibrated and repaired electrical safety equipment like Checkll; hypotulra 7504 and 7500DT

+ Put in new memory into flash memory chip

+ Advised Customers on equipment needed

02/2000-06/2001 Lab.Temps. at Siemens 100 Kee Street Batavia , IL

Repair and Calibration Technician

+ Inspected non- working elevator softstarts for damage by nature,

User, manufacturing, or design

+ Worked with design teams to decrease product malfunctions

+ Repaired elevator soft starts.

02/1999-02/2000 Lab. Temps at B.O.C. Gases Carol Stream , IL

Night Chemist

+ Inspected cylinders for damage

+ Used gas chromatography to check head gases and purity.

+ Weight cylinder and got cylinders ready for shipment

+ Ran the Quality Assurance lab on third Shift.

1998-1999 Baxter Laboratories Round Lake , IL

Sr. Instrumentation Technician

Trained other new calibration techs

+ Calibrated pipettes, rota meters, RTDs and other lab equipment.

1997-1998 Mullins and associates contract to Motorola (Tri-State Locations)

Electronic Technician

+ Worked on cell sites for cellular telephones

1996 - 1997 Mullins and associates contract to Abbott Laboratories

Instrumentation Technician

+ worked with instrumentation pertaining to fermentation process like Fisher Provox Distributed controls Systems and Pneumatic systems..Performimg maintenance on analytical devices such as high pressure liquid chromatography pumps

1982- 1996 GD Searle Laboratories

Metrologist Technician

+ worked on force gages pressure switch gages of al kinds transducers some that go into dogs to measure blood and other pressures inside the animal, to transducers for Freeze Dryers.

+ Repaired and calibrated spectrophotometers and output recorders in Puerto Rico.

+ Temperature calibrations for column heaters for HPLC Systems.

+ Provided support to Evanston Hospital clinical studies, manufacturing facilities in Canada, Puerto Rico, and Illinois

+ Maintained traceability back to N. I. S. T. National Institute of Standards and Technologies

Validated and calibrated fume hoods stability cabinets and steam sterilizers and auto-clays

+ Did training on liquid scintillation counters and wrote out SOP.

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Relevant Military Experience:

United States Marine Corps Radio Operator

Set up and supervised communication nets Utilizing MUX gear secret clearance

Education & Training:

DeVry Institute of Technology Majored in Electronic Digital/Analog Control Communications Graduated Pneumatic Instrument Maintenance, Calibration and Repair Instrument Society of America , Raleigh, North Carolina ; Pragmatic Calibration at G.D. Searle, Skokie , Illinois ; Principles of Metrology John Fluke Manufacturing Company, Palatine , Illinois; Precision Thermometry at the National Institute of Standards and Technologies , Greensburg, Maryland.

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