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Education:

Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA

Doctorates in Philosophy in Chemical Engineering, 2000.  (Towards A Comprehensive Kinetic Model for Step-Growth Polymerization).  Minor:  Dynamic Modeling.

Masters in Science in Chemical Engineering, 1996.  (Kinetics and Evolution of Primary Structure in Step-Growth Polymerization:  Analysis of Silica Sol-Gel Systems).  Concentration:  Stochastic Processes.

Florida State University  Tallahassee, FL

Masters of Business Administration, 2000.  (Modeling the US-Canada Foreign Exchange Rate using Neural Networks).  Concentration:  Finance and Financial Modeling.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Cambridge, MA

Scientific Baccalaureate in Chemical Engineering in 1992.  (Egger Plan USA).  Concentration:  Modeling and Psychology.

Professional Experience:

Florida Agriculture & Mechanical University  Tallahassee, FL

·        Fall 2004.  Assistant Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

·        Fall 2002 – present.  Director for the Environmental and Materials Technologies Laboratory.

·        Fall 2003-Summer 2004.  Associate Director for the Office of Technology Transfer, Licensing and Commercialization. 

·        Fall 2003-Summer 2004.  Senior Research Associate for the Undergraduate Research Center for Cutting Edge Technologies.

·        Summer 2002-Summer 2003.  Program Area Coordinator in Biological and Agricultural Systems Engineering. 

·        Fall 2002-Summer 2003.  Director and designer of C.A.R.E. - Course Awareness and Research Excellence Program (a retention program for undergraduate students).

Business, Information and Technology Solutions, LLC   Tallahassee, FL

1996-2003.  Partner providing consulting advice to start-ups and small businesses.

 Boston Consulting Group  Atlanta, GA

2000-2001.  Strategic Management Consultant.

Florida State University                                                                                Tallahassee, FL

·        Spring 2000.  Instructor in the Department of Information and Management Science.

·        Summer and Fall 1999.  Research Assistant.

Rohm and Haas Company  Croydon, PA

·        1997-1999.  Senior Polymer Research Process Engineering for the Polymer Process Research Department.

·        1998-1999.  Team Leader for Adhesive Business Unit Best Practices Taskforce.

 

Clark Atlanta University   Atlanta, GA

Summer 1997.  Research Scientist for the Polymer Processing Research Laboratory, High Performance Polymer and Composite Center.

Morehouse College  Atlanta, GA

Spring 1997.  Instructor of the Engineering Program in the Physics Department.

Center for the Advancement of Technology and Educational Resources  St. Louis, MO

1994-1996.  Co-founded Vice President and Director of Operations.

Georgia Institute of Technology  Atlanta, GA

Fall 1992-Fall 1996.  Teaching Assistantship for the School of Chemical Engineering.

Funded Projects:

  1. Project:  Establishing a Remote Sensing Center at FAMU (PI)

Source:  Defense Intelligence Agency

Amount (type):  TBD (contract)

Period:  10/2004 – 9/2005
Collaborators:  Drs. Lewis Johnson

  1. Project:  Vapor Detection/ Sensor Development (PI)
    Source:  Defense Intelligence Agency
    Amount (type):  $100,000 (contract)
    Period:  7/2002 - 12/2003
    Collaborators:  Dr. Robert Klein

  2. Project:  Use of Vortices in Decreasing Engine Emissions (PI)
    Source:  Boeing Corporation
    Amount (type): 2 patents, technical know-how, seed grant $15,000 (donation),
         corporate value of donation ~ $6.5 M
    Period:  7/2003 – 7/2004
    Collaborators:  Dr. Robert Klein

Recent Publications:

  1. R. Parker, L. Nelson, Z. Farngalo, A. Elmore, D. Johnson, "A More Environmentally and Ergonomically Friendly Design for Surface Acoustic Wave Device Systems For Various Environmental Factors", Proceedings from the American Society of Agricultural Engineering National Conference 2003
  2. R. Parker, “An Elementary Model of Sag Distance and Time in Thermoforming Plastic Materials”, Proceedings of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) National Conference 2002
  3. D. Hylton, T. Spence, E. Sampson, K. Dorsey, R. Parker and T. Emyael; “An Analysis of the Heat Exchange Phenomena in Heavy Gauge Thermoforming-Part I”, ANTEC 2000

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