ROBIN SCHLINGER, CFRW, CMRW, CPRW, CECC, JCTC 404-875-2688 • robinschlinger@robinresumes.com • Page 2
Engineer, ENZYMATIC DEINKING TECHNOLOGIES, Norcross, GA 10/2001 - 2/2002
• Supported on-site studies to improve manufacturing at several paper mills.
Senior QA Engineer II / Senior Process Engineer I, BROWN AND WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION, Macon, GA 10/1992 - 12/2000
• Managed quality engineering and process improvement projects at a 100 billion-cigarette/year factory, including documenting operations.
• Facilitated ISO 9000 site certification by leading over 10 internal multi-discipline process quality audits and documenting processes.
• Conducted process capability studies and implemented Statistical Process Control while providing process support and troubleshooting.
• Saved $1.3 million/year expenses and over $10 million in capital costs by conceiving, developing, documenting and leading the
implementation of award-winning technology which significantly reduced greenhouse gas pollution.
• Reduced tobacco usage 1%, saving $1.8 million/year, by implementing new tobacco processing technology.
• Recovered $1 million/year lamina (good tobacco) from waste tobacco by researching and implementing new separation technology.
• Slashed costs $500,000/year by using Design of Experiments (DOE) methodology to test cigarettes for relationship of density-to-loose-ends.
• Increased process yield 20% and capacity 80% by managing improved shredder technology implementation.
• Cut overall product consumer complaints 7% by driving new vision inspection technology testing and evaluation.
• Enabled improved quality and yield with simplified operations by developing the business justification for a $6.5M plant modification.
• Evaluated effect of possible Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation on the tobacco industry, including documenting requirements.
• Enhanced plant flexibility by developing patented (6,807,969) “Method for Processing Reconstituted Tobacco.”
Senior Applications Engineer / Lead Engineer, ABB SIMCON, INC., Bloomfield, NJ 5/1988 - 5/1992
• Documented software and wrote comprehensive technical and user manuals for several large software programs.
• Produced and conducted several computer application training courses in-house and at international client sites in Brazil and Korea.
• Increased gross margin for 3 ethylene plants in Brazil and Korea 4 to 7% by leading a team to develop and install DEC VAX/VMS based
Optimization and Process Control FORTRAN programs. Installed programs on-site at international locations.
Planning Analyst / Research Engineer / Senior Staff Engineer / Engineer, MOBIL CHEMICAL COMPANY, NJ and FL 8/1978 - 4/1988
• Sought after to create and edit presentations and papers for executive management throughout tenure in position.
• Produced and conducted several computer training courses for hundreds of staff on APL, DOS, Spreadsheets and Word Processing.
• Prepared the Capital Budget and 5 Year Objectives for a $100 million international specialty chemicals and catalysts division by developing
scenarios to determine best solutions, including creating financial analysis of and writing justifications for major capital projects.
• Streamlined operations by writing a Lotus-based computer program for the Capital Budget and 5 Year Objectives.
• Delivered key financial analysis and justification for a multimillion-dollar European plant by performing strategic analysis.
• Documented Mobil's Geology Mine Simulator, a 100,000-line FORTRAN and RPGII program, ensuring efficacy of the program.
• Saved $11 million/year raw material costs by developing a statistics-based phosphate mine computer model.
• Replaced phosphate mine sizing and modified flotation operations on time, increasing recovery significantly, $500,000 below budget.
• Increased plant recovery from 88% to 92% by researching and implementing programmable control logic.
• Bought the first IBM PC for Mobil after attending an IBM presentation in Florida one day after the IBM PC was officially announced.
• Nominated for two Gordon Research Conferences on Statistics in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering based on knowledge.
• Granted patent 4,457,899 for “Process for Removal of Residual Organic Matter from Purified Phosphoric Acid.”
CERTIFICATIONS • PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS • COMMUNITY SERVICE
Certified Federal Resume Writer (CFRW) • Certified Master Resume Writer (CMRW)
Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) • Certified Job and Career Transition Coach (JCTC) • 360 Reach Branding Coach
Certified Electronic Career Coach (CECC) • Held Certified Federal Resume Writer and Coach (CFRWC) [discontinued]
ASQ Certifications (expired): Certified Quality Manager • Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) • Certified Quality Analyst (CQA)
FAA License: Private Pilot, Single Engine Land
Former Director of Awards, Career Directors International (CDI) • National Resume Writers Association (NRWA)
Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches (PARW/CC) • National Career Development Association (NCDA)
Career Thought Leaders • Georgia Career Development Association (GCDA) • Class Stewardship Agent, MIT Class of 1978
SELECTED COMPUTER EXPERTISE
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access), Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Notes, dBase, WordPerfect, StatGraphics, SAS
Windows, VAX/VMS, MS DOS, Networking, IBM PC, APL, FORTRAN, PL/1, Assembler, some C/C++, BASIC, AutoCAD
Visio, Acrobat, Freelance, Microsoft Project, Timeline, Photoshop, PageMaker, FrontPage, HTML, Wordpress
EDUCATION
Pursued Master of Science (MS) in the Management of Technology, MERCER UNIVERSITY, Macon, GA (program discontinued), 1994
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering (BSChE) with a Concentration in Writing
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1978