charles mire

* Managed a multidisciplinary project involving a small team of researchers, engineers, and programmers. * Outlined project tasks and milestones. * Led weekly project status meetings with team. * Directly performed, assisted with and designed laboratory experiments. * Designed custom instrumentation for experiments. * Analysed experimental data and discussed results with team members. * Built custom equipment and modified existing equipment per project requirements. * Reviewed scientific literature for topics relevant to project. * Authored company whitepapers. * Engaged other research teams to augment project undertakings.

* Negotiated new VAN service contract which saved the company $300K/year. * Mapped X12 EDI transactions using Gentran Server for Unix. * Interfaced EDI transactions to SAP IDOCs where appropriate. * Set up new EDI trading partners and maintained trading partner database in Gentran Server for Unix. * Investigated and resolved problems with EDI-related files, which included checking Unix system log files. * Wrote Unix shell scripts (awk, nawk, ksh, sed) to simplify tasks and create reports from EDI files.

* Responsible for entire company network and related issues. * Managed $100K annual technology budget. * Trained other employers on technology systems. * Project management of technology systems. * Responsible for company implementation of EDI processes, terminology, ANSI Standards and Transaction Sets, and barcodes. * Coordinated EDI system migration. Continued to resolve customer and system-related issues involving EDI. * Supervised Y2K project through completion. * Installed new Unix system (enterprise and EDI) for sister company, Smith Abrasives, based on Jokari's system. * Assisted Smith Abrasives with Y2K testing with EDI Trading Partners. * Purchasing wholesale products from production factories.

* Taught English to Russian children. * Devised lesson plans, quizes, tests. * Made lessons more exciting by incorporating games, such as the classic hangman -- but the students enjoyed my introduction of the American "Spelling Bee" contest the most.

* Maintained and resolved issues in object-oriented Perl and PHP code, and MySQL queries (LAMP architecture). * Updated HTML as needed. * Developed custom website enhancements per customer requests (U.S. and U.K. sites). * Liaised with internal team and external customers.

Working on advanced materials and systems for 3D printing under Professor Leonardo Simon.

We are a 3D printing company making technology to print soft materials. Our first product is the Discov3ry extruder, which was successfully launched on Kickstarter in June/July 2014. We sold over 400 units, becoming the solid leader in 3D paste printing. The company graduated from Communitech's HYPERDRIVE accelerator program as part of cohort #4 in 2014, and successfully graduated as part of the first cohort of HAX Boost in 2015. Our Discov3ry extruder is used worldwide in over 50 universities and research organizations to further materials research and prototyping. www.structur3d.io Invited Talks: "The Untapped Opportunities for 3D Printing with Soft Materials" -- RAPID Toronto, September 2015 "How to Build and Grow a Hardware Startup" -- ACTION Conference 2015 (Hamilton, Ontario, November 2015) "5 Important Items to Do in Your Company’s First Year" -- ACTION Conference 2016 (Hamilton, Ontario, November 2016) 3D Printing Panelist, TiECon2016 (Ottawa, ON, November 2016)

Spent 5 months studying in Moscow. Have been to Russia 3 times since 1990 and witnessed the many changes of the 1990s. Still retain decent fluency in the language, and would love to go back there again.