Enhanced Resume

Enhanced Resume

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OBJECTIVE

To Work in production/research in a hands on capacity with a company utilizing my technical skills and experience.

DESIRED OCCUPATION: Materials Technologist

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Employer:  xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Title:  Food Service Manager
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA

Duration:  11/2008 - 4/2011

Talk about stupidity and arrogance.   Aladdin Food Service was hired to improve food service and cut costs.  It did neither but caused all of us peons a lot of grief.  People were hired who had no business in a supervisory position.  Decisions were made with no forethought what so ever or any input from the people who had to carry them out.  Change was the order of the day.   The workload as a result was increased dramatically.

Kickbacks to Aladdin from suppliers were commonplace.  One supplier admitted that they tacked on 7% for billing purposes as a result of kickbacks.  Apparently it is legal but not totally ethical.  There is a fiduciary responsibility there which is lacking.

I was fired for not behaving properly towards Chef David.  I politely asked him if it would be possible if he and the rest of Aladdin employees would use the front door as I had to take time out from my work to open the door for Aladdin’s Staff.  I was eventually rehired and Chef David (pompous ass) was eventually fired.

Brad (VP of Aladdin’s Kosher Div) set all of us peons down and lectured us that he would like us all to remain at xxxxxxxxxx but in past experiences he found most employees left when Aladdin came in.(Huh!)

Brad also set a group of us down one day when it looked like the contract to Aladdin was going to be terminated and told us that if he goes we will go.

Brad was finally relocated to New Jersey but unfortunately Aladdin still remained.

I worked part time 12-16 hours a week.  When I was told that I have to work 40 hours a week on demand and all Jewish Holidays, I gave them my 2 week notice and left.

Job Duties:  Kosher supervision of food. Helped to serve patients and in the prepping and cooking of food to maintain appearance, nutrition and taste.

Employer: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Title: Food Service Manager
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Duration: 11/1997 - 11/2008

Job Duties: Ordered all materials and foods necessary for production Actively engaged in the planning of patient menus.

 Innovated new methods of freezing patient meals. Actively involved in sanitation.

Helped to serve patients at several area hospitals.

Helped in the prepping and cooking of food to maintain appearance, nutrition and taste.

There is a tremendous turnover in dietary personnel, well over 200%/year.  Training is minimal and primarily a legal sign off procedure.  The administration does not seem to care about its employees.   Morale is low.   Turnover affects patient care and increases costs for training, but the administration i e xxxxxxxx (totally out of his element) and his paramour xxxxxxxxxxxxx (rules with an iron fist) are not concerned about anything except their way of doing things.

xxxxx was an expert in everything.  She was a food dietician for 19 years and was then elevated to food service director.  Some of her stunts:  ordering delivery carts too big to fit through patients’ room doors,  ordering very expensive delivery carts (kept the food both hot and cold) but boy did they require maintenance.

Even employees in the kosher kitchen have problems.  Appearance, taste and quality have gone out the window.  xxxxxxxxxxx who is now in charge, intermingles funds, collected from sales of meals to satisfy extra labor costs which he feels is needed in the department.

xxxxx spends much of his time on the phone talking to either his Mother or spouse.

xxxxxxxxxxx was another case in point.  He argued with all his superiors at UPMC

To the extent that he was terminated after just a few months.  Shortly before leaving he threw out and/or destroyed 75 years of records of the kosher Kitchen.  When I asked him  why  he did that xxxxx said,  “I will not have my name associated with anything that I do not  consider halachically correct”.

Employer: Servsteel Inc.

Title: Production Coordinator
Location: Morgan, PA
Duration: 11/1995 - 11/1997

Job Duties: Coordinate and facilitate production to ensure that materials, people and equipment were available to most efficiently use available resources.

Interesting work environment. Union and management detested each other.

I okd some ceramic gates that were slightly substandard and had them fail in use.  Molten steel everywhere.  Fortunately no one was injured.  Last time that I listened to coworkers.

I was to develop a lined wooden mold to cut production costs.  I did not realize that I was not to contact anyone.  I did contact suppliers etc and found out what I already knew, that it was not technically feasible at that time.

I kept inventory of all raw materials and notified my superiors when they were to reorder.  They never listened and we always ran out.

Needless to say that I didn’t last 3 months.

Employer: Simple Treat

Title: Food Service Manager
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Duration: 11/1988 - 11/1995

Job Duties: Supervise and facilitate the preparation of breads, cakes and pastries.

Yum, yum but watch out cholesterol.

Sherman Weinstein was one of those rare bosses, knowledgeable and fair.

Employer:  Prime Kosher

Location:   Pittsburgh, PA

Duration:

Title:  Mashgiach

Kosher supervision of facility but with main effort on koshering and traboring (deveining) meat.

Under Rabbi xxxxxxxx, supervising Rabbi, who may have known less than I about the kashrus of food.

To our Deli Manager, Don, who took enough products without recording them to support himself and also make the Deli look good.  I was continuously finding packaged deli in the trash bin outside where it would be picked up after hours.

To xxxxxxxxxxxx who always told me that I was wasting too much meat in my koshering.  His idea of a pay raise was to pay me under the table so that I wouldn’t have to pay taxes.

To the butchers John and Gary who always cut more meat than necessary, wasting hundreds if not thousands of dollars every week.

Employer: Ceramic Color and Chemical

Title: Ceramic Engineer
Location: New Brighton, PA
Duration: 11/1981 - 11/1988

Job Duties: My experience includes the calculation of compositions, weighing, mixing, processing, firing and testing of inorganic pigments, enamels, glazes and glasses.

Our motto was: We pollute on land, sea and air.  Funny thing that happened, while I was working there.  A large tank(5000 gallons) of sulphuric acid, supposedly neutralized, leaked onto the ground.  Over the years it leached into the ground and corroded a large steel gas line buried 30 feet below the surface.   I used to go right after a rain and ignite the gas bubbles that came to the surface.   That’s fun? Or crazy?

Bill Wenning, our boss, was always willing to demonstrate to anyone that he was smarter and tougher than anyone else.
A favorite story Bill used to tell was about a gentleman who used one of Ceramic Color’s products in a tunnel.  It failed.  The gentleman committed suicide.

Employer: Gerber Plumbing Fixtures

Title: Ceramic Engineer
Location: Woodbridge, NJ
Duration: 04/1978 - 11/1981

Job Duties:

Ran daily check to control specific gravity and viscosity for plant use. Analyzed glazes to determine cost effectiveness. Developed colors and glazes in the laboratory and implemented their manufacture in production.

Calculated new compositions and modified older existing ones. Performed all necessary checks to evaluate new products and raw materials. Innovated new methods of mixing and milling colors. Increased atmosphere and effective quality control.

Investigated and tested refractories for thermal shock and corrosion resistance reducing refractory costs by 30 to 50% Identified inclusions in finished ware and ascertained their source; losses were running 15 to 100% due to contaminated raw materials.

Tested raw materials for particle size, chemical composition and mineral content, maintaining high quality standards.

Wrote and instituted testing procedures for contaminants in raw materials. Engaged in mineral analysis using petrographic microscope.

Never trust suppliers.  We were running losses at times of 100%.  The ware looked like tapioca pudding.  It was finally traced to our trucking company that was supposed to use dedicated trucks for the transportation of feldspar, but they also carried aragonite (calcium carbonate) on their return leg.

 Jim Stavrolakis was hired to turn things around.  PHD type who spent 80% of his life on the road.  Nice, quiet man but a hatchet man nonetheless, fired so many people, that no one else in the company (who were left) would work with him.  He was terminated as a result.  While he was wondering what to do with his life, he was in the midst of a divorce, the president of the company (Oscar Gerber) and the company controller ( Bruno Spiewak) had the misfortune to check on him.  They were worried about him.  They were both blown away and then Jim committed suicide.

Jim once told me that if I want to get ahead in this company that I should court and marry the boss’s daughter

I called off sick one day for a job interview in Florida.  It didn’t pan out.  The following day Jim came over to me and was wondering why I had to go to Florida to heal my cold.  Spies are everywhere.

Found out after I left how my raw material inventory was off.  Assistant plant manager and many of the employees were caught.  They produced more ware than they recorded and sold the excess on the side.  2000 to 3000 toilet bowls were sold every year courtesy of the Woodbridge Underground.  Hugo Golin, Plant Manager, was instrumental in discovering the theft when a “customer”  inadvertently asked to purchase an item when the plant was closed.

Employer:  Metro Glass

Title:  Glass Technologist

Job Duties:

Ran daily check to control specific gravity and viscosity for plant use

Calculated new compositions and modified older existing ones. Performed all necessary checks to evaluate new products and raw materials.

Tested raw materials for particle size, chemical composition and mineral content, maintaining high quality standards.

Wrote and instituted testing procedures for contaminants in raw materials. Engaged in mineral analysis using petrographic microscope.

Actively participated in 3 to 5  furnace heat ups per year.

Checked furnace atmosphere on regular basis in all plants.

Plants were running 10 to 15% losses due to stones (unmelted material) and cords( glass which has not properly melted).   Green glass was running chrome stones on a regular basis as well.

We busted our butt trying to determine what the source of all these stones were, of course our suppliers and workers were all doing a perfect job.

PGS, a sand company in Southern NJ was responsible for the major share.  When confronted with evidence that there sand was contaminated, they admitted culpability and even gave us a tour of their facilities to show how they tested for them.  Why didn’t they tell us before hand?

Lavino,  a chrome ore supplier also stated that there product was great and met all specs until we showed them that it was coarse and would not melt in our glass tanks.  Why didn’t they tell us before hand?

The workers In Carteret, N J. third shift discretely increased machine speed to to obtain bonuses without telling anyone.  A glass tank has to be preheated before increasing pull rate otherwise batch stones and cord will result.  Inventory of materials went out of kilter and shortages were rampant to the the tune of 2000 tons per year.  My friend Tom Stavish (batch and furnace) was caught off guard.  You don’t expect that your own people  would turn against you.  The glass cullet piled up.  Were we young and naive?

One of my jobs was to test the atmosphere in smoke stacks at various heights generally from 50 to 75 feet up.  One time in Jersey City, the rotting platform attached to a stack, that I was standing gave way. I almost bought it that time.

My boss, Robert Dreyfuss was pretty tough.  He had us work around glass tanks without proper gear to save the company money.  Our clothing and shoes would literally burn up from the heat.

One time he sent me to the airport to pick up a package. I didn’t have the money to pay for the package which was shipped COD.  I returned empty handed.  He was furious.  He assembled all the engineers and had us empty out our wallets and pockets.  There were several of us.  Together we didn’t have $20.  I was only making $12,600/year. What did he expect?

Larry Gould, an electronics technician asked for two days off for a Jewish holiday.  Bob said that he would ask his friend who was a reformed rabbi for an answer.   Of course his rabbi friend sided with Bob that Jewish holidays are celebrated for one day only.  Larry was forced to work on a Jewish holiday.

When I gave him notice that I was leaving for another job he fired me on the spot, immediately notifying security that I was not permitted back in the plant.  He probably felt that I was a bad influence.

Employer:  GTE Sylvania

Location:    Versailles Kentucky

Duration:

Title:  Glass Technologist

Duties:  Ran quality control laboratory to insure quality glass with uniform properties.

Install and maintain coating line for glass tubing.

Maintain water treatment for plant: including cooling towers and glass tanks.

Run area pollution surveillance for lead and contaminants from plant.

Never trust a weasel.  My Father told me not to trust Pearl Rutter, calling him a weasel.  I didn’t listen.  I was held responsible for erratic properties of the glass in the lab.  I did not know that Pearl was making unauthorized changes to the glass composition every day because that was the way he used to do it.  I found this out after I was fired.

It didn’t help when I told my supervisor that the glass tank heat ups could be a disaster.  Steel girders which were supposed to be continuous were not.   The crown was insulated and abutting the tie rods.  Cooling loops were closed and not usable.  Nowhere did anyone take into account the rapid expansion of refractories upon heating up. Trust Ray Biles, Engineering Supervisor and Ken Rock, Plant Engineer in their lackluster oversight of plant engineering and maintenance.

Ray was the gentleman who fired me,  most likely to cover up his ineptitude.  I E When I told him that I found what  was causing a particular piece of equipment to continuously get out of alignment, he became furious.  Maybe, my wording wasn’t very good.  If my memory serves me correctly I said,   “The ass hole who cut out 6 inches of reinforced concrete and replaced with 1 inch thick steel was at fault.” Ray said, “I am the asshole.”  The rest is history.

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The only job that I had where someone attempted to kill me.  An 18 inch wrench was dropped from a catwalk above my head narrowly missing me by inches.  When I looked up, no one was there.

Employer:  IBM

Location:   Lexington, Kentucky

Duration: 

Title:  Blueprint copier

Duties:   Copied blueprints for anyone who wanted them.

Was terminated when I went to summer camp in the Kentucky National Guard.  Hey IBM, nice supportive spirit of our men in uniform.

Employer:  Small Civil Engineering Firm

Location:  Lexington, Kentucky

Title:  Lab Supervisor

Duties:  To test all incoming concrete samples, log it and report to my supervisor, the results.  I was terminated after 3 months and still don’t know the reason why.  I was told that I didn’t take charge of the laboratory well enough. To be fair, I was the only person employed in the lab and also kept it  as clean as a mud lab could be.  I was not permitted in the main offices.

Employer:  Lexington Mall

Location:   Lexington, Kentucky

Duration:

Title:   Security and Maintenance

Basically I cleaned the place and called the police whenever anything went crazy.  Scary job,  alarms were always going off and I had to let the police in with their shotguns and automatic weapons on the ready.   Finally we traced the problem to kids living at night in the movie theatre and traveling from store to store thru the false ceilings.   Those ceilings were over 20 feet high.  How they got up and down is still a mystery to me.

Employer:   Lexington Fayette County Sewer Authority

Location:  Lexington, Kentucky

Duration:

Title:    Sludge Treatment Worker

The title says it all.  We removed the solids from the waste water.

Notes of humor:  Your coworkers can easily screw you to make themselves look good by not providing sufficient capacity so that you can do your job.

Mr. Monroe was in charge of the facility and made unauthorized changes to some equipment which invalidated the warrantee.  I believe they were centrifugal extractors but they never worked

Equipment and roads were not maintained as I can attest.  Try going up a hill with 0 visibility, defroster and wipers didn’t work, in a snow storm where the bed of the truck occasionally disengaged.   It happened and I suddenly found the truck with its front wheels in the air.

Employer:   Anchor Hocking

Location:   Lancaster, Ohio

Duration:   1968

Title:         Technician

Developed glasses as specified by supervising engineers.

Worked on ceramic glass bake ware similar to Corning Ware

Destroyed all paper work when we lost patent legal action to Corning

Worked on chemical tempering using cuprous chloride.

was a bust.  It strengthened already strong glass items such as glasses and percolator tops but did not increase the strength of weaker articles

Testing was poorly done.  To obtain better results poor results were either thrown out or ware was retested until better results were achieved.

My favorite was our CEO/President was shown a demonstration on pretested ware (percolator tops) to show how effective chemical tempering was.  When I blew the whistle on our testing techniques, I became persona non grata.  

EDUCATION

Major: Glass Technology

School: Alfred Univ., Coll. Of Ceramics

Location: NY

Degree: B.S. Glass Science

Completion Date: 06/1969

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Ran Daily checks to control specific gravity and viscosity for plant use.
Analyzed glazes to determine cost effectiveness.

Developed colors and glazes in the laboratory and implemented their manufacture in production.

Calculated new compositions and modified older existing ones.
Performed all necessary check to evaluated new products and raw materials.
Innovated new methods of mixing and milling colors.

Increased production effectiveness by controlling firing time, components, kiln atmosphere and effective quality control.

Investigated and tested refractories for thermal shock and corrosion resistance reducing refractory costs by 30 to 50%.

Identified inclusions in finished ware and ascertained their source; losses were running 15 to 100% due to contaminated raw materials.

Tested raw materials for particle size, chemical composition and mineral content, maintaining high quality standards.

Wrote and instituted testing procedures for contaminants in raw materials.
Engaged in mineral analysis using petrographic microscope.

DESIRED LOCATION:

Within 10 miles of: xxxxxxxx