Technical Skills: Comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of materials characterization techniques and failure analysis; Extensive experience with data acquisition and instrumentation; Well developed hands-on laboratory skills; Comprehensive experience in characterization techniques following ASTM, ISO, USP, EP, BP and ICH requirements; Extensive experience in development and validation of experimental techniques for regulatory compliance purposes. Leadership Skills: Comprehensive experience in day-to-day management of the safe and effective operation of electron and optical microscopes, X-ray diffraction equipment, metallographic sample preparation facility and other analytical equipment as well as training of laboratory staff. Proven ability to develop and manage multimillion annual budget. Comprehensive experience writing proposals to secure new equipment. Communication Skills: Proven ability to write technical documentation for both instruction and presentation. Good presentation skills. Authored and co-authored over 30 technical publications and presentations. Fluent in English, Polish and Russian Computer Skills: Comprehensive software proficiency covering wide variety of applications: MS Office, Visual Basic, CRM applications, MS Forecaster, LIMS, Camtasia, TeamViewer.

Key responsibilities:  Oversaw day-to-day operations of two Departments with a total of 15 people reporting to ensure effective management and operation;  Actively participated in formulating business development and marketing strategies;  Evaluated work assignments and developed a master schedule for multiple projects to facilitate proper usage of limited labor resources;  Provided expertise on latest scientific developments and industry technology in the area of physical characterization in a variety of industries;  Developed new and modified existing testing methods to satisfy client’s inquires and regulatory authorities;  Dealt with customer requests for different testing problems, proposals and technical reports;  Ensured that all work performed by direct reports is conducted in accordance with regulatory requirements, best practices and health & safety standards;  Assisted in preparation activities for regulatory and customer inspections, and provided assistance during inspections and follow up activities;  Supervised and trained direct reports on an on-going basis and maintained appropriate personnel records, provided feedback on a regular basis and conducted annual performance reviews;  Confronted direct reports to manage performance issues or progress;  Worked with vendors to schedule routine maintenance as well as fixing instrumentation problems;  Applied a wide range of materials characterization experience in solving tough problems for the customers to ensure that Exova new analytical capability were truly world class. Key Accomplishments:  Achieved the best performance for both departments in the Division in terms of profit and sales per capita;  Consistently delivered 110-115% of the budget;  Generated new sources of revenue by developing new services to the customers (over $700K in 2012-2015 alone);  Consistently achieved one of the best EBIT in the Division;  Successfully secured funds and commissioned new equipment: surface area and SEM/EDS (first model of its kind in Canada) systems as well as to upgrade the existing;  Provided expert contribution to equipment qualification (IQ/OQ/PQ) and commissioning/relocation;  Successfully lead the departments through FDA and Health Canada regulatory audits and numerous audits performed by external customers.

Key responsibilities:  Lead the activities on microstructural and physical characterization of damage nucleation and evolution in high strength dual-phase steel DP600;  Actively participated in development and implementation of a novel digital image correlation techniques for evaluation macro and micro-strain distribution. Key Accomplishments:  Developed and implemented a new procedure for assessment of strain partitioning in metals during deformation by using e-beam lithography and in-situ SEM;  Actively participated in design and initial implementation of a unique apparatus for in-situ SEM biaxial testing;  Achieved over 190 citations of papers on the subject by a scientific community;  Two papers on the subject were reported among top ten on science web site;  Actively participated in commissioning of a new EBSD system and trained others to use it.

Key responsibilities:  Directed activities related to dispatching, routing, and tracking transportation vehicles;  Directed investigations to verify and resolve customer or shipper complaints;  Monitored spending to ensure that expenses are consistent with approved budgets;  Set tariff classifications and prepared customer billing. Key Accomplishments:  Increased profits by 25-30% and improved services by analyzing expenditures and other financial information.

Conducted experimental program aimed to correlate the critical hydrogen concentration causing permanent microstructural damage with the change in fatigue resistance of a pearlitic rail steel (350HT); Designed and implemented a special equipment for electrochemical measurements of hydrogen permeation (combined with an originally coded data acquisition and analyzing software); Initiated a collaboration with Tula State Technical University to perform series of tests grain boundary relaxation in the studied steel; Obtained new results confirming a model of Grain Boundary relaxation in industrial steels proposed during previous Ph.D. studies.

Monitored the effectiveness of corrosion protection of industrial installations; Performed the routine corrosion inspections of industrial equipment; Established relationship between hydrogen uptake, corrosion rate and chemistry of industrial medium in fluidal catalytic cracking industrial installation; Designed and implemented hydrogen permeation microprobe; Designed and implemented a new digital data acquisition and analyzing system for hydrogen permeation and thermal vacuum hydrogen extraction laboratory set-ups combined with an original coded software; Completed the first investigation of the effect of hydrogen induced pre-damage on Grain Boundary (GB) relaxation; Predicted and demonstrated the utility of mechanical spectroscopy technique for investigation of microstructural changes at earlier stages of corrosion degradation; Isolated the contribution of different kind of phase interfaces to GB IF spectrum; Conducted extensive structure examination program towards Ph.D.; Established the relationship between film texture, morphology, chlorine content and corrosion resistance for TiN layers deposited by PACVD technique; Evaluated hydrogen critical concentration causing permanent metal damage for different kind of model materials and industrial pipeline steels; Estimated activation energy and hydrogen distribution between different kind of traps in metal with various degree of degradation, based on kinetic measurements of thermal vacuum hydrogen extraction.

Performed TEM investigations of thin structure of AK8 (type 2014A) alloy to optimize regime of artificial aging to obtain the best corrosion resistance; Conducted X-ray experiments on iron-based alloys with different boron microadditions to study its effect on recrystallization process; Provided highly professional and satisfied support in TEM/X-ray investigations to research and academic staff at the Department of Materials Science; Operated and maintained TEM/SEM and other laboratory equipment.

Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Engineering/Corrosion

Materisals Science and Engieering, Materials Science and Engineering/Physical Metallurgy