Richard Gardner

Technology & Operations Manager

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

About

Senior technical executive and U.S. Distinguished Inventor with extensive Materials Engineering, Information Technology & operations expertise. Hands-on operations manager & problem-solver. Key impact as Principal Investigator/architect, in the successful design, development, and commercialization of novel products & processes, (First-to-market). Programmatic oversight of laboratory & manufacturing technology teams, interdisciplinary teams, including integration of activities among multiple, remote sites. Specialties: • Micro-replication • Coating/lamination processes • Laser matter interactive processes • Web material handling systems • Informatics • Network Storage • Data Management Software • Applications & Embedded Software • Media (e.g., magneto-optic; erasable optical) • Materials (e.g., powder metallurgical systems; crystal growth) • Vacuum fabrication/processing of materials • Device Fabrication (e.g. metallization; CVD; lithographic processes; rapid tooling technologies)

Experience

  • Senior Consulting Scientist at Inter-IM
    2011 - Present · 15 yrs 7 mos

    Senior Consulting Scientist for Oil and Gas Company

  • Principal at MicroProcessed Surfaces, LLC
    2010 - 2011 · 1 yr

    mPS provides tooling materials and related technology & market consulting

  • CTO at BrightView Technologies
    2003 - 2010 · 7 yrs

    Brightview develops microstructure based optical & lighting films acquired by Tredegar Inc

  • CTO at Incellico
    2001 - 2003 · 2 yrs

    Incellico built ontology- based expert systems for biosciences research & discovery. A medical informatics solution that was acquired to make proprietary, a novel ontology network based discovery platform.

  • CTO at Calendar Central
    2000 - 2001 · 1 yr

    Web-based business calendar provider with customer base of >80 organizations