The Amazing Resumé of Dr. Carson B. Roberts
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OBJECTIVE:
To secure a position in Engineering or Project Management where
I can use my skills as an Engineer, Physicist, Educator and Materials Scientist.
SKILLS:
Manufacturing:
Operated CNC milling machines and conventional machining for
fabrication of aluminum and composite materials
Programmed and ran Pick and Place machines for surface mount circuit
board manufacture including video capture and IP telephony hardware
Prepared and purchased bills of materials for electronic and mechanical assemblies
Developed and wrote standard operating procedures for a wide variety
of machines and processes used in circuit board and computer manufacture.
Engineering:
Re-engineered a large-scale MOCVD reactor, including
assembly and operation
Design, fabrication and testing of microelectronic devices
Process development and Quality Control for
Semiconductor wafer growth
Manifold design and TIG welding for toxic gas systems
Experience with statistical experiment design and
process control
Commercial and residential plumbing: water, drains and gas
Computer Systems:
Built and set up Windows NT systems in an OEM environment
Worked with IBM PCs since 1985, from 8086/DOS 3.0 to
Pentium/Win95
System set-up, repair and maintenance on Windows systems
as well as DOS, UNIX, and MacOS
Data Acquisition and analysis software coding in C,
Qbasic, Basic, and Pascal languages
Taught scientific programming to college sophomores in
Qbasic
Extensive work with video acquisition and processing on
Windows and PowerMac platforms
Materials Science:
Semiconductor crystal growth by MOCVD, HVCVD, MBE, LPE,
and Bridgman techniques
Plasma Sputtering, Evaporation, High Pressure Oxidation,
etc. for producing thin films
Sculptural Glassblowing and glass furnace design,
construction and maintenance
Physics:
Studied Low-dimensional systems, fluid dynamics, crystal
growth, Surfaces and Interfaces
Photoluminescence, XPS, AES, SIMS, and electronic
measurements of semiconductor and metal films
Designed and fabricated a 15T superconducting magnet
system with a He3 refrigerator
Flow visualization in MOCVD reactors.
Computer acquisition and analysis of flow patterns in
aqueous crystal growth systems
Communication:
Wrote and maintained operating procedures for a variety
of manufacturing equipment
Documented and developed procedures for volume
production of environmentally hardened computers
Experience in proposal writing, both in industry and
university
3 years teaching experience at highly selective liberal
arts colleges
French: moderate fluency; Japanese: 1½ years in college.
Amateur acting, directing and tech. for theater since 1980
Physics Teaching:
Helped develop and maintained Computer-based Video
laboratories for Undergraduate Physics
Taught all undergraduate subjects including laboratories
Most experienced in teaching Undergraduate Quantum
Mechanics/ Solid State Physics
EDUCATION:
- PhD, Physics, Brown University,
Providence, RI, 1994
Thesis title: "Enhancement of the Electron g-Factor in
Silicon-Germanium Heterostructures"
- MS, Physics, Brown University, 1988
- BS, Physics, Brown University, 1987
1½ years, Physics, Reed College, Portland, OR, 1982-4
PAST EMPLOYMENT:
Sept. 1999-June 2001: Engineer, Zeller Research Ltd.
Jan. 1999-May 1999: Visiting Assistant Professor of
Physics, Miami University
Sept. 1996-Aug. 1997: Visiting Assistant Professor of
Physics, Whitman College
July 1994-Aug. 1996: Visiting Assistant Professor of
Physics, Kenyon College
Nov. 1992-Nov. 1993: Joint Study Research Contractor,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Jan. 1990-Aug. 1993: Research Assistant, Brown University
Physics Department
Aug. 1988- Nov. 1989: Process Development Engineer, Spire
Corporation, Bedford, MA
Jan. 1987-Aug. 1988: Research Assistant, Brown University
Physics Department
Oct. 1985-Jan. 1987: Laboratory Assistant, Brown
University Physics Department
Jan. 1985-July 1985: Apprentice Plumber, S.C. Plumbing,
Lahaina, HI