RAY
R. FLEMING
11303 Blackmoor Drive • Austin, Texas 78759
(512) 750-0163 • ray@rayfleming.com
Executive with a background in technology
based products including research
and engineering, applications and marketing
development, and technical sales.
Skilled at managing scientists, engineers,
and other technology workers and
facilitating
relationships between marketing, sales, engineering, R&D, and
manufacturing.
Proven track record in developing complex
technology driven products and
applications for those products and
transitioning them into the marketplace.
Hands-on manager with a proven track
record at developing and meeting
schedules for multiple complex tasks
with up to 20 direct reports and 35 or
more indirect reports.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant 8/99 - present
Independent consultant specializing in the development
of technologically innovative equipment
and environmental, health, and safety compliance.
R&D Manager / Safety Manager
ASOMA Instruments - Austin, Texas(Part of
SPECTRO as of 6/98) 11/90 - 8/99
R&D
Manager 2/99 - 8/99
Conducted
fundamental research, industrial engineering optical design, and mechanical
design,
while
managing teams of software, electronic, and mechanical engineers responsible
for
designing
electronic instrumentation with external or embedded PC and microprocessor
control
systems.
Safety
Manager 11/92 - 8/99
Responsible
for all environmental, safety, and health programs and product safety,
including
compliance
with OSHA, EPA, TNRCC, TDH, NFPA, and others.
Radiation
Safety Officer 6/91 - 8/99
Responsible
for regulatory compliance, licensing, and registration world-wide including
compliance
with USNRC, USFDA, TDH BRC, and other organizations.
Applications
Lab Manager 3/93 - 2/99
Responsible
for applications studies, providing customer, sales, and inside technical
support
and
training, marketing research, product improvement, and new product specifications,
design
and development, and software and hardware evaluation and testing.
Interim
Production Manager 9/95 - 3/96
Responsible
for bench-top product manufacturing. Led ISO 9000 audit team.
Calibration
Technician 11/90 -3/93
Calibration,
testing, and quality control inspection
Radiological Control
Technician
Mare Island Naval Shipyard -Vallejo, California
7/88 - 9/90
Civilian employee responsible
for radiation safety on naval nuclear reactors and associated equipment.
Distribution Center Supplemental
IBM - Houston, Texas 7/87 - 6/88
Responsible for distributing, inventorying, and
inspecting computer components.
Warehouse Manager
W. Bell & Co. - Houston, Texas 5/80
- 5/87
Managed retail warehouse for a catalog showroom
store.
EDUCATION
University of Houston
BS: Physics, August 1986
INTERESTS
Artist- airbrushed watercolor portraits, acrylic abstracts
Photographer
- portraiture, industrial, and nature
Writer
- MacHiavelli’s the CEO (unpublished)
Screenwriter
- Soul Collectors Club, State of the Union (unproduced)
Automobiles
- Car Collector, SCCA corner worker
Science
and Technology - Cosmology
PAPERS AND PATENTS (selected)
R.R.
Fleming: Method and Apparatus for Reduced Background X-Ray Analysis, Patent
pending
1999.
R.R.
Fleming, R.C. Tisdale: Vapor Phase Analysis via EDXRF, Pittsburgh Conference
1999.
R.R.
Fleming, J.C. Harlan: X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy With Fresnel Zone
Plates,
Patent
Pending, 1998.
R.R
Fleming, P.W. Almquist, W.M. Slough: Sodium Analysis with a Bench Top EDXRF
Analyzer,
Presented: Pittsburgh Conference, March 1992.
R.R.
Fleming, J.D. Jefferson: Magnesium Analysis with a Low-Cost EDXRF Cement
Analyzer,
World Cement Vol. 26, No. 8, pg. 60-66 (August 1995).
R.R.
Fleming, J.D. Jefferson: A benchtop Energy-Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence
Analyzer
for
Improved Light Element Performance, Spectroscopy Vol. 10, No. 6, pg. 36-39
(July/August
1995) Presented: Pittsburgh Conference 1995.