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R.N.Gurin, B.S. M.S. Ph.D.

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State: Florida
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KEYWORDS: Chief Executive Officer, Board Chairman, Board Member, President, Project Management, Start-Ups, Turnarounds, Interim/Long-term Leadership, Domestic/International Concerns

EDUCATION:

1954 - 1963
Pennsylvania BSME
University of Sheffield, Nether-Green (UK) Engineering Economics MS Program
UCLA Graduate Studies Economics and Mechanical Engineering PhD
Who's Who 1980

LANGUAGES: English, German (written)

STATUS: Not Available

• Organizations achieve results by simultaneously adding income and reducing costs. To get desired results takes hard work, long hours and organization-building leadership. To do it well takes skill, courage and brains and practice. 

• Strategic Planning and plan implementation on a day-to-day shirt-sleeve basis.  
• Fix problems - - people, plans, products, services, methods.  
• Manage, train, recruit and develop people - - action, not "buzz-words".  
• Substantial high-volume industry mfg. experience from re engineering through labor-relations, contract negotiation and administration, MIS, Quality and Reliability assurance: wood cabinetry/ fixtures, laundry/linen, wire & cable, electronic assemblies/connector, valves, chem/indus. residue disposal high-temperature, Alternative energy (gasification/solar)  
• Consulting performed on-site US, Europe, Latin America 
• Consumer Product Design, development, test-marketing, marketing planning and sales
• Governmental/Industrial project development & implementation 
• Grant, Business, Strategic Plan development 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Current - - November 1994 through present. Managing start-up organization through establishing manufacturing and marketing licensing of breakthrough consumer/corporate/government/industrial application. Expanded into field of education with student-oriented products and wireless computing Learning Stations. Introduced cutting-edge software for textbook publishing and classroom use, design/develop companion electronic Reader.

• 1960 - 1965 Associate Engineer (student)/Technician, Engineer, Chief Engineer, General Manager of Pacific Automation Products Inc. aerospace hardware and defense systems organization. Managed Atlas missile-system ground support system installation and support. Contracts Ended

Significant Positions Earned:

• Chief Engineer - Pacific Automation Products Inc. (3,000+ employees) 
• Vice President and General Manager - Commerce Service Inc. (2,300 employees) 
• Vice President, and Chief Engineer - Precision Interconnect Corp. division of Pacific Automation R&D (1800 employees including site installation and field testing) 
• Vice President - General Noise Control Corp. Division of Commerce Service (980 employees) 
• President - Scientific Baits Inc. (93 employees)
• President - Innovative Companies Inc. (230 employees)
• President - Optical Publishing Inc. (34 employees)

Board Memberships and Directorships Held

• Chairman - SGI
• Director - Innovative Companies, 
• Director - Optical Publishing Company, 
• Director - Innovative Technologies Holding AG.
• Director - Multi-Safe AG. 
• Chairman - Summerland Engineering Corp. 
• Director - Energy Resources Inc. 
• Director - A.E.A. 
• Director Caribbean Airways Ltd. 
• Director - Marine Acoustics Inc. 
• Director - Gulf Wood Energy Inc.

• Major Consulting Clients:
  Governments of Jamaica, Haiti and Honduras, Chase Industries, University of Florida, State of Florida Department of Energy, ITH AG

Technical Accomplishments:

• Designed equipment, developed and received patent for unique process for extrusion of MIL C-13777 Ground Support System - Atlas Program. 
• Designed Hawk Missile Launch System Ground Support Launcher. 
• Developed system for ground-support telemetry cabling systems (Merit Award). First production of ultra high temperature extrusion instrumentation cable. Developed micro-miniature connector design and fabrication system for ultra high temperature applications - (Award for Excellence). 
• Designed, developed and received patent award for industrial noise-control and vibration isolation systems for rotating and impact equipment. 
• Developed and patented venturi exhaust system for high-speed marine diesel and airborne jet engine noise suppression/reduction applications. 
• Designed, developed patented and directed marketing and production of OSHA-standard-establishing industrial noise enclosures for high-speed mechanical equipment (punch presses etc.) (American Machinist Award for Excellence). 
• Designed, fabricated and installed world's largest gasification cogeneration system - Swedish Mechanical Testing Institute, University of Florida and U.S. Department of Energy.
  Developed and Marketed Gatorbait marine attractant/Baits. 
• Designed, developed and awarded patent for sophisticated virtual-office and related manufacturing components.

• Listed Who's Who 1980, Dr. Gurin also has high-level PC computer-literacy with limited RISC, systems engineering, IBM main frame systems experience, excellent comprehension of e-commerce and related strategies.

Publications and Courses Conducted:

• Journal of Acoustics - Industrial Noise Control Enclosure Applications 
• Vector Analysis (Graduate Seminar) 
• Industrial Development in Emerging Nations (Post Doc. Seminar Series ) 
• Co-Generation and Energy Options for The Caribbean and Central Americas 
• Gasification of Small Engines 
• Synthetic Marine Attractants (co-authored) 
• Economic and Energetic Model for Evaluating Dispersed Energy Systems 
• Net Energy Analysis: An Economic Assessment 

PERSONAL

Son of prominant Educator (Dr. Samuel Gurin, the late Dean Ret. , University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and Scientist); brother is President of Binney and Smith (Crayola Crayons) ; married, six children (including one set of twins in college plus two young grandchildren.

Start-up companies simultaneously possessed of intellectual/entrepreneurial challenge and flexible siting requirements are of particular interest to me.

I am 6'3, weigh 190 pounds, have less hair than I would like; am a product of the 1950s. I stop for traffic lights at 3 AM, don't drink beyond occasional social occasions, and believe that; finishing what you start, knowing what you are talking about, loyalty, integrity and hard work are the answer to most issues. My wife is my best friend, a talented full-time business-person, common-sense product design and creative marketing expert.

My professional skills are best employed in a "get-it-fixed/running/started" environment. That's where and when I am happiest and most productive. I am strongly incentive-motivated - - compensation being related to desired results. For me, getting results works best in a flattened, open management organization. for example: As a basic policy, I require that every employee have one good suggestion/idea every week. An individual machine operator knows more about his or her 25 square feet of work space, the equipment used, and the product produced, than anyone in the organization. He or she can, and will, make enormous contributions to profits if listened-to. Costs go down, maintenance problems are reduced, quality goes up and morale, pride and a sense of "belonging" pays off for customers, shareholders and management. Technical, administrative and sales folks react the same way too.

Informal photos of Dr. Gurin and family may be found here