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I am a degreed chemist with several years of experience in process 
development, quality control, and a strong background in research.
I have spent the last several years in the electronics and defense
industries where I have learned valuable process control and project 
management skills and I am seeking a position as a technical 
manager in a non-defense related industry.

While acquiring my degree I collected extensive biophysics and 
physical chemistry research experience. I have significant 
(i.e. expert) knowledge of chromatographic systems including ion
exchange, size exclusion, and chemical adsorption.  I have 
significant exposure to reverse osmosis, pervaporation, dialysis,
and membrane technologies, and I am a fairly competent 
spectroscopist with expertise in X-ray diffraction, FTIR, circular
dichroism, atomic absorption and ICP, UV spectroscopy, and 
fluorescence methods.  I also have a fair degree of experience in
materials characterization including thermal analysis and tensile
tests.

My current post is in TI�s Defense Electronics Group and I am a 
senior member of a multidisciplinary team of process engineers.  
Our group includes expertise ranging from process flow to mechanical
design and my contributions are material chemistry, processing, and
analysis.  I recommend and test various materials and designs for 
their ability to perform in a military environment (generally extreme
conditions), for their processing ease and cost, for reliability, and
for environmental and demilitarization concerns.  I am responsible 
for monitoring and improving various cleaning, bonding, coating, 
forming, and assembly operations on equipment ranging from missile
airframes to circuit card assemblies to payloads.   

I am also a member of a group referred to as the Six Sigma Blackbelt
Community. This group�s mission is to provide statistical and 
experimental design expertise to various business units and military
programs so that they may achieve low cost, high yield, defect free,
manufacturing processes.  To this end we employ the tools of Total
Quality Management (TQM), Statistical Process Control (SPC), 
Statistical Experimental Design (DOE), Response Surface Methods, and
Six Sigma Analyses.  My forte is "out of the box" concept design and
process optimization.  I pride myself on achieving elegant and simple
solutions rather than the more common Rube Goldberg solutions which
are commonplace in the chemical and especially the defense industries.
I do my share of calculations but strongly believe that designs should
always be supported not just by computations but whenever practical
and economical by scaled experiments.  My research background gives
me a unique insight into process and quality problems which I have 
noticed many engineers seem not to have.  Experimental design 
something easily taught but often not practiced, I have learned
through both classical and statistical methods to ferret out the root
cause of a problem in both a cost and time saving manner.

During the early part of 1993 through the end of 1995, I was the leader
of TI's Chemical Specification team during design and ramp-up of new
wafer fabs in Avezzano, Italy (AMOS6); Miho, Japan (MIHO8); and Dallas,
Texas (DP1/DMOS5). Our team designed ultraclean chemical delivery
systems, negotiated specifications with suppliers for raw materials 
(mostly acids, photoresists, and gases), and implemented several closed
loop recycling systems for sulfuric and hydrochloric acids, process 
water, and alcohol.  My team was also responsible for reviewing best
practices at each of TI�s facilities around the globe and choosing 
standard processes to be implemented worldwide.  We reduced both 
process and administrative waste, implemented tracking and reporting 
systems to measure process efficiencies, and by cherry picking the best
methods of each fab, achieved overall process improvements resulting in
enough increased production to equal the output of an entire factory.

You will find that I am an accomplished team leader, have better than 
adequate communication skills in several languages,  and am very capable
of mustering the resources and support necessary to not just complete a 
project but to do it well.  I am looking for a position where technical 
excellence is valued.  I need an environment where calculated risks are 
acceptable.   I will only accept a position which I have judged to be a 
good long term fit for my personal and professional goals.  I expect 
solid growth opportunities and stability in exchange and commensurate 
with the work I put into a project and I require challenges.  I am most 
happy working the project everyone else has deemed impossible.

Attached is my resume.  Please review my credentials.  I look forward to 
hearing from you.

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                               Michael Carver
                                2312 Micarta
                              Plano, TX 75025
                           (972) 618-3053 home
                          (972) 462-5623 office
                             MACZ@TIMSG.TI.COM

EXPERIENCE:

Texas Instruments, Defense Systems Electronics Group, Missile Systems
   CHEMIST/PROCESS ENGINEER: NOVEMBER 1995 TO PRESENT
     * Provide technical support to manufacturing operations for HARM, 
       JSOW, and Javelin missiles in all phases of construction from 
       Printed circuit board fabrication to final assembly.
     * Review materials and methods used to construct, repair, and refit 
       advanced weapons systems.
     * Responsible for 20% reduction in site-wide absorbent waste and 
       50% reduction in VOC emissions for consolidated missile factory.
     * Six Sigma Blackbelt.  Provide statistical and Experimental Design
       expertise to manufacturing and design groups with a goal of 
       achieving low defect robust manufacturing systems.

Texas Instruments, Worldwide Chemical Operations
   CHEMIST/APPLICATIONS ENGINEER:  SEPTEMBER 1992 TO NOVEMBER 1995
     * Negotiated with quality managers, product and process engineers, 
       regulatory agencies, and chemical suppliers in 23 countries 
       (Europe, North America, and Pacific Rim) to develop analytical
       standards for raw materials using the Six Sigma Design Concept. 
     * Re-engineered the chemical specification process to decrease 
       cycle time, reduce redundancy, and improve the flow of 
       information. 
     * Contributed significantly to Chemical Operations' score of 98%
       on ISO-9002 certification by standardizing and fully documenting
       the chemical specifications process. 
     * Designed and presented extensive and directed classroom training 
       on TI's Engineering Information System. 

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, X-Ray Crystallography Group
   RESEARCH TECHNICIAN:  JUNE 1990 TO FEBRUARY 1992 
     * Designed an automated pilot plant for large scale, ultra-pure, 
       protein production.
     * Set-up 160 liter fermentation laboratory, developed operating 
       procedures and documentation, and trained professional staff on 
       use and care of facility.
     * Built instrumentation to control crystal seeding and growth.
     * Prepared crystals of ultra-pure protein and conducted X-ray 
       diffraction studies.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dept. of Microbiology
   RESEARCH ASSISTANT:  JUNE 1989 TO JUNE 1990
     * Set-up and managed protein analysis laboratory.
     * Designed HPLC and PAGE separations for genetically engineered 
       proteins.
     * Designed ELISA and Radioimmunoassays for various oncoproteins.
     * Implimented Laboratory Information Management System.

Core Laboratories (Electric Power Research Institute Grant)
   CHEMIST:  JULY 1988 TO JUNE 1989
     * Researched the oxidation of pyrite in a compressed air storage 
       reservoir created from an aquifer.
     * Confirmed the reaction mechanism, kinetics, and thermodynamics.
     * Prepared detailed progress reports and held regular seminars.
     * Managed small staff of technicians

University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Department of 
Biochemistry.
   RESEARCH ASSISTANT:  AUGUST 1986 TO JANUARY 1988
     * Conducted independent research on the regulation of tissue 
       elastases.
     * Developed chromatographic, immunologic, and radiochemical
       procedures for purification of immunologically active
       intermediates in elastase synthesis.
     * Trained junior technicians

EDUCATION:
   Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, University of North Texas, 1992.
   Concentrations in physical chemistry and biochemistry.
   Financed entire education through employment as research technician.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH:
   High Temperature FTIR Spectra of Alkaline Salts.  Developed 
   instrumentation to verify  de novo computations of the basic 
   structures of NaCl,  NaOH, and NaCN in the gas phase.  These are
   important intermediates in the stratospheric cycling of ozone and
   inhibition agents in silicate vapor deposition; 1992.

PUBLICATIONS:
   Coleman, D.; Carver, M.; Linder, M.; Sprang, S.; and Gilman, A; 
   Crystallization of Gs and Gi:  Members of the G-Protein Family of 
   Signal Transduction Proteins. Poster presented at the Third Annual
   Symposium on Initiatives in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry;
   Lakeway, TX; Sept. 1991.

   Welsch, V.;  Carver, M.; and Nobel, R; Demise of Oxygen in Compressed 
   Air Storage Reservoir, Pittsfield Ohio. Report to the Electric Power 
   Research Institute; Dec. 1988.

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY:
   Programming Languages: BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal.
   Operating Systems: UNIX, DOS, VMS, Macintosh, and Windows.
   Familiar with networking and Internet access systems.
   Able to interface common instruments to PC datacollectors.

INSTRUMENTAL PROFICIENCIES:
   HPLC, GLC, GC/MS, FTIR, ICP, AA, UV/Vis, PAGE, Large Scale Bacterial 
   Fermentation, X-Ray Diffraction, X-Ray Fluorescence, UV Fluorescence, 
   Radiochemical Assay (alpha, beta, and gamma counters), Tensile
   Testing, Photographic Systems, and Thermal Analysis.
 
STATISTICAL PROFICIENCIES:
   DOE, SPC, FMEA, ANOVA, Six Sigma Methods, Response Surface Methods, 
   Regression, and Taguchi Modeling.

SPOKEN LANGUAGES:
   English, German, French, and Elementary Japanese.

SECURITY CLEARANCE:  DOD Secret, Issued 12/95.

OUTSIDE INTERESTS:
   Member of the American Chemical Society.  Active in public outreach.
   Techinical Coach, 1996, Collin County BEST Program.
   Judge for Dallas Regional, Dept. of Energy, Science Bowl; 1994-95.
   Certificated Private Pilot, SEL.  Pursuing instrument rating.
   EAA Chapter 168 Young Eagles Coordinator
   President, TI Texin's Flying Club, 1994-96.

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| Michael Carver                                  |    972-462-5623     |
| Chemist, Texas Instruments, Missile Systems     |   MACZ@MSG.TI.COM   |
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