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OBJECTIVE
Seeking position in materials metallurgical engineering, where 19 years
of experience in research and development of new materials and novel processes, broad background, equipment mechanical design skills, materials testing, macro-, and microstructural characterization expertise will increase efficiency of development/improvement of product/process.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Experienced (15+yrs.) Materials Metallurgical Engineer with Ph. D. in Materials Science, M. Sc. Metallurgical Engineering. Performed research projects from conception to implementation. Excellent project management skills.
Proficient with a broad spectrum of materials/processes: metals, alloys, composites, ceramics, coatings, compounds, powders, nanopowders, gasars or metal/alloy/ceramic-matrix lightweight composite materials with honeycomb porous structure, ceramics, metal hydrides, metal-hydrogen alloys.
Expert in materials selection, failure analysis, mechanical properties testing, analytic chemistry, macro- and microstructure characterization using metallography, OM, TEM, EDX, STEM, SEM, EDS, AFM, STEM, AA, XRD, SIMS, FTIR, and GC. Samples preparation and results interpretation.
Thorough knowledge of metallurgical and ceramics processes, corrosion, solid state physics, physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry.
Scientific and pilot plant equipment design. Drawing, fabrication, assembly support, maintenance.
Excellent intellectual property development skills.
EDUCATION
Ph. D. in Materials Science. The State Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine. 10/1989. Solid state shape loss effect in the metal-hydrogen alloys. Development of Gasars (gas-reinforced composites with the honeycomb porous structure) products, and processes.
M. Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering. Diploma with Honours. The State
Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine. 06/1986. Specialization: Metal Science, Engineering, Equipment and Technology of the Thermal Treatments of metals and alloys.
Final Project Title: Proton emission in the metal-hydrogen alloys.
Patent Management certificate. Patent Management Institute of Ukraine.
6/1986.
WORK EXPERIENCE
04/2000-09/2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics Department, Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, Canada.
Performed research and failure analysis, reports in collaboration with
a variety of companies, and universities:
- Atomic ordering correlated with anisotropic resistivity in p-type MOCVD grown GaAsSb/InP.
- Strain relaxation in dilute nitride systems GaAsN/GaAs and InGaNAs/GaAs.
- GaSb quantum dots structural evaluation.
- Structural evaluation of GaAs grown in porous Al oxide.
- Structural analysis of ZnSe/BeTe heterojunctions.
- Pt particles TEM analysis.
- Metal powder characteristics optimization for sintering.
Extensive use of electron microscopy, including samples preparation, results interpretations. Literature surveys, reports preparation, publications and presentations. Advising STEM Laboratory, maintaining equipment, ordering parts, and people training.
01/1996-06/1997 Research Associate/Materials Engineer, Supersold Ltd.
Soldering Products, Haifa, Israel.
Optimized smelting regimes for a variety of sealing and joining alloys:
tin, lead, indium, silver, bismuth, cadmium based: Bi-Pb-In-Sn-Cd; In-Pb-Ag;Sn-Ag. Technical reports preparations and presentations.
Developed new process of the Au, Pd, Pt recovering from dental alloys
and electronics wastes. Performed stages: literature survey, planning,
design of experiments, scheduling, and scaling, equipment selection,
and improvement.
01/1995-01/1996 Research Associate/Materials Engineer, L. G. Research
Ltd., Nesher, Israel
Performed research into ultrasounding effects for leaching of tantalite and columbite applications. Conducted project stages: budget planning, process and equipment design, regime optimization, control procedures advice and performance. Tested and analyzed different properties and structures of Ta, Nb, Ti metal oxides, various compounds, and metals.
Provided materials compositional, and microstructural analysis, and
equipment design support for development of pyrolise for nanopowders processing.
Developed New Hydrogen technology of scrap metals recovery for powder processing. Proposal prepared, conducted stages: marketing, experimental equipment design, and presentations.
01/1994-01/19995 Research Associate/Materials Engineer, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, Israel
Microstructural characterization and textural analysis of mash-seam and electron-beam welded automotive metal sheets.
Hard metal coating on plastics.
Thermal stability and interfacial reactions in Ni-Ti/SiC and Ni-Ti/Si alloy thin films.
09/1981-07/1995 Projects Leader/Senior Research Associate/ Metallurgical Engineer, "Metal-hydrogen interactions", "Alloy" (or SPLAV) Laboratory, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
Provided development, supervision, budget search and planning, managing, scheduling, and performance of fundamental scientific and industrial Research Programs & Projects for Material Engineering (Science/Automotive, Space-, and Aircraft Industries, other applications). Designed/performed over 15 research/industrial projects. 27 scientific publications. Obtained 42 patents: New Materials, Novel Technologies.
Budget search, planning, projects management, and performance, presentations, publications preparations, collaborations search:
- Designing, development, applications research, and implementation of gasars or new functional porous composites, gas-reinforced metal/alloy/ ceramic with honeycomb controlled porosity and GASAR technology.
- Developed novel functional materials and materials processes for application in fuel cells, fuel reformers, heat storage, exhausts, filters, catalysts, hydrogen storage, porous alloy coatings. High-temperature, and corrosion resistant materials development.
- Hydrogen absorbing materials development, research and implementation. Creating of high porosity materials / processes: metals, alloys, ceramics, composites, coatings.
- Analysis of phase (gas-eutectic and gas-eutectoid) transitions in metal-hydrogen systems.
- New solid-state shape loss effect in metal-hydrogen systems.
- Designed new alloys, composites with high formability, based on formation and properties of hydrogen over-saturated layers in metals during solid-state phase transformations.
- Modeling of GASAR crystallization processes, dynamical effects of hydrogen over saturated layers on formability in metal/alloys.
- Designed laboratory, experimental and pilot plant equipment for GASAR technology, heat treatments, research of properties of metal-hydrogen alloys. Autoclaves, Hydrogen/argon/helium high pressure and high vacuum uses, thermal cycling, casting capacity. Drawing, fabrication support, control and maintenance.
Taught "Fe-C Alloy Metallography", graduate level course, Ukrainian Metallurgical Academy.
Supervised group of 5-10 people, engineers, technicians, graduate, and Ph. D. students.
Patents development, and processing.
Provided mechanical design, fabrication, and assembly support for development of new rotary internal combustion engine.
Performed projects for DMK Tek Corp., Ann-Arbor, USA.
AFFILIATIONS
Member of Materials Research Society.
Member of Microscopy Society of Canada.
Member of Microscopy Society of America.
COMPUTER SKILLS
MS Word, MS Power Point, Excel, Corel Draw, Adobe Photoshop, MATLAB, AutoCAD 14, Scion Imaging.
PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS
More than 50 publications in scientific journals, conference presentations. 41 Soviet Union author certificates (equal to patents) in the field of Fabrication and Processing of materials, metals and metal composites, ceramics; Fabrication of porous metals; Methods of Deformation, Materials Heat Treatments; New Materials. 1 Ukrainian patent "New diesel/gas rotary engine" (internal combustion).
REFERENCES
Available upon request.
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