project manager, construction materials testing and repair, geology, alternative energy
LIS KOVACH
Industrial Minerals Geologist & Technical Writer
Qualification Statement
A technical-service management professional with a track record of project management, comprehensive analysis, and delivering solutions. Experience in construction materials testing, geology, and structural failures. Expert in time management, technical writing, research, and problem solving. www.linkedin.com/in/lkovach
Accomplishments
• Directed a team of scientists and engineers analyzing a NASA-sponsored space-shuttle experiment. Concrete mixed in zero-gravity was studied and evaluated for homogeneity, crystal growth and strength.
First, RC and Kovach, L. Petrographic Analysis of a Concrete Mortar Mixed Onboard a Recent Space Shuttle Mission, 1999
• Initiated and designed annual scientific experiments targeted to improve products, test new technology and improve testing methods. Successfully managed team members, directed workflow, analyzed data and completed technical reports. Author of over 1500 technical documents.
• A cement-based materials expert who provided technical support preventing $1,000,000 in legal claims per year.
• Recommendations reduced cost of quarry operations by 40% after re-designing quality control and improving mining strategy. Created a superior product that exceeded minimum ODOT requirements by blending two rock types, thereby generating $80,000 in yearly sales.
• Performed field evaluation and exploration at rock quarries and sand-and-gravel pits, structural examinations, analyzed mine tailings, field sampling, mapping, carbon fibers in concrete, fly ash, metakaolin-as-a-pozzolan feasibility studies.
• Formulated and presented a redesign of quality control recommendations to management that ultimately reduced the cost of quarry operations by 40%.
• Technical and scientific writer, editor, grant research proposals, abstracts, proposals, book chapters, and standard operating procedures, manuscripts, technical reports, manuals.
• Notable technical services projects include Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland; Chrysler engine assembly plant, Detroit; Jeep manufacturing plant, Toledo; Sunshine Skyway bridge, Tampa; McCormick Spices distribution center, Maryland; Progressive Field, Cleveland; Pennsylvania Turnpike.
• MS Office, Lotus Notes, EndNote, some CSS and HTML, X-ray powder diffraction, polarized-light microscopy and thin-section analysis, some metallographic microscopy, scanning electron microscope, energy dispersive spectrometry.
Professional Experience
Editorial Asst & Medical Sec
Business Owner & Student Cleveland Clinic, Anesthesiology
Mary Kay, Lancôme, Macy’s 2007-2009
2002-2007
Staff Scientist/&
Concrete Petrographer Master Builders nka BASF 1992-2002
Geological Consultant Rogers Group, Crushed Stone 1991-1992
Education
MS Indiana University, Bloomington Geology
BS Cleveland State University, Cleveland Geology
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