DON. C.
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TECHNICAL
EXPERT / CONSULTANT
SKILLS
Engineering: chemical, civil, environmental, food, mechanical, mining,
petroleum, thermodynamic
Resolving crises: high profile / risk in technical
research, development, beta-site or catastrophic situations
Inventing: innovating and initiating new
product lines, and discovering basic scientific theories
Managing: problem projects and staff, while
communicating with diverse levels, disciplines, and ethic groups
Expert witnessing: investigating technical frauds /
hoaxes, analyzing complex technical and market data
Public Speaking: humorous presentations (creativity
and science) and serious instructing (technical)
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE / ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Verified “crisis problem-solver” and
“Innovator”:
patents ( 19
scientific theories and discoveries
equipment
designs used worldwide
corporate “Creative Contribution Award”, seven time winner
Professional activity:
Forty (40) years of consulting experience
with clients or assignments in
North and South America / Europe / Asia /
negotiating, designing and implementing
technical resolutions;
15 of those years as a 20 of those years as an independent
consultant with
member
of
a client list of 41 while serving as many
as 4 at any time
a “corporate think
tank”
for periods of up to seven years; an
invited lecturer
(Engineering Foundation Conferences,
with publications
/ papers ( IFT, ACS, SME, ASAE, ASP, CAP, NASA, et al.).
Exposed technical and
scientific fraud:
1.) Debunked the “Great Oil
Crisis” and advised my OEM clients to maintain minimal drilling
inventories, they
remain viable entities today, 2.) halted my client’s
multi-million dollar investment in a spurious “Super Fuel”
and averted an international
embarrassment, 3.) revealed, by creative
thermodynamics analysis, fraudulent
natural gas heating values reporting by a major utility company –
saving my client over a $1,000,000 per
year,
and the general public much
more.
4.) – 16.) confidential
Clients in
transition
Merged three
separate company
Provided technical support / critical Prepared and
implemented a
engineering
departments with documentation / customer confidence nationwide technical sales program
“problem
employees” successfully for a “to be discontinued”
product
for the introduction of foreign
without
incident and provided
essential at many environmental processing equipment resulting in
continual
technical support for a “Super Fund” sites avoiding
lawsuits sales of $ 1,200,000 the first year
myriad of
product lines.
and extended requirements.
and $ 14,700,000 the second year.
EDUCATION
Degrees:
MS, Chemical Engineering / Geology minor,
BS, Chemical Engineering /
Chemistry and Physics minors,
Postgraduate Studies:
Astrophysics and Food Engineering – Microbiology,
Continuing Education:
“Maximizing
Profits from Research and Development”, The Center for Professional Advancement
“Fundamentals of Petroleum Engineering”,
“Advanced
Coal Preparations”,
“Cementaceous Materials”,
“Auto
Emissions”,
EMPLOYERS and CLIENT LISTS
EMPLOYER/
CLIENT NO.
EMPLOYERS
1
State of
2
3
4
5
NASA
contract, UC Davis, Davis, CA
6
Kaiser Cement Corp.
Permanente, CA
7
FMC Corp., Central Engineering Laboratories,
CORPORATE
(FMC Corp.) CLIENTS
8
Food Processing Machinery,
9
Packaging Machinery,
10
Food Machinery Europe,
11
Food and Pharmaceutical Products,
12
Agricultural Machinery,
13
Automotive Service Department,
14
Materials Handling Equipment,
15
Materials Handling Systems,
16
Environmental
Equipment,
17
Mineral Development,
18
Phosphorus Chemicals Division,
19
Mining Equipment Division,
20
Alkali Chemicals Division,
21
Marin and Rail Equipment,
22
Engineering Systems,
23
Ordinance Division,
24
Vitafreeze,
25
Agriculture Chemical Group,
26
Marine Colloids,
27
Citrus Machinery Division,
28
Air quality Control Itasca, IL
29
Construction Equipment International,
30
Natural Resources Operations, Denver, CO
31
Fluid Control,
32
Wellhead Control,
33
Specialty Electronics Products,
INDEPENDENT
CONSULTANT (Process Technology and Development) CLIENTS
34
Industrial Light and Magic (Lucasfilms),
35
Magnuson
Engineers Inc.,
36
Rossi Trading,
37
Filper /
Magnuson / Weigh-O-Matic,
38
Heat
and Control Inc,
39
Tri-Valley Growers,
40
ESD-Nesco,
41
Occidental Chemical Co.
42
Miles Labs
43
Caterpillar Tractor Co.
44
45
Hyland Laboratories,
46
Campbell Soup Co.
47
Du Pont Chemical Co.
48
49
Verbatim,
50
SIVA Inc,
51
Food Machinery
Sales and Service,
, NY
52
Savi Engineering,
53
Reid-Ashmann Manufacturing Inc.,
54
Calbee,
55
Mike Sells Co.,
56
Lamb-Wesson,
57
ElPo Spa,
58
Applied
Engineering and Design Inc,.
59
Recyclene Inc.,
60
Fenco
Spa,
61
Optima Technologies
Group Inc,
62
Ultratech
Stepper Inc,
63
Pneumatic
Products Corp.,
64
Recovery Systems Inc.
65
Monterey Mushroom
Inc.,
66
Wylie, McBride, Jessinger, Sure, &Platten
Corp.,
67
Purus
Inc.,
68
StoreMedia
Inc.,
69
Oliver Design Inc.,
70
OnTrack Systems
Inc.,
71
Equilasers,
72
Kraft
Foods Inc.
73
Tru-Si,
74
Semitech,
75 - 87
Anonymous
MATRIX; consulting duties for clients
/ employers
Original works of
AUTHORSHIP and DISCOVERIES
PATENTS ( sole inventor for all except one* )
1. Method and apparatus for processing
products in flexible containers
Mar 1970
2. Processing products in flexible
containers
Sept 1970
3. Control of diffusion of gases in
pouches
Dec
1971
4. Control of hydrogen formation in
pouches during heat treatment
Jan 1972
5. Filling method and apparatus
Mar 1972
6. Method of purging air from
containers
Apr 1972
7. Apparatus for preserving delicate
food products
Oct 1972
8. Cooking and freezing products in
flexible containers
Nov 1972
9. Keying grip clamp for holding a
thin flexible article
Oct 1973
10. Package sealing in steam
atmosphere
Aug 1974
11. Package sealing in
steam atmosphere
Nov 1974
12. Method
and apparatus for assorting particles according to the physical characteristics
thereof
Sept 1975
13. Method
and apparatus for assorting particles according to the physical characteristics
thereof
Mar 1976
14. Fluid
displacement of noncondensible gas from voids in products
Mar 1977
15. Method
and apparatus for purging air from containers *
Apr 1977
16. Air-free
pouch packaging method
Jun 1977
17. Method
and apparatus for dewatering slurries of coal and the like
Mar 1982
18. Method
and apparatus for removing rot from potatoes
July 1983
19.
Method
for continuous synthesis of sucrose fatty-acid esters
Feb 1999
20.
through
Foreign Patents
85.
INVENTION DISCLOSURES ( sole inventor in all except one )
[ peer reviewed by both technical and
legal staffs ]
1.
through
confidential, archived as intellectual property, CEL /
FMC Corp.
87.
INDUSTRIAL IMPROVEMENTS ( sole inventor of all )
1. “Process
reconfiguration”, advanced product from pilot plant to industrial
production of, ethylene
Glycol di-borate ( gasoline additive ).
1962
2. “World’s Largest
Calorimeter”, exposed fraudulent activity of major natural gas
supplier, Kaiser
Cement Co,
1966
3. “Nugget Former”, a meat
extruder to form pizza toppings.
Heat and Control Inc.
1989
4. “Kleenheat”, a
thermodynamically optimized shaped pollution control heat exchanger for cooking
oils. Worldwide installations by Heat and
Control Inc.
1991
5. “Anti-Vapor lock
Device”, prevents volatiles hindering continuous flow in centrifugal
pumps. Cornell
Pump Inc.
1992
Original works of
AUTHORSHIP ( sole author of all )
1.
“Congruous Processing of Flexible
Packages”
Mar 1970
2. “The All Disposable Sterile
Pouch”