Heater Lunn
Education
Bachelor of Science, Physics and Math
University of Wisconsin-River Falls, May 2006
3.81 GPA
Technical Skills
• Strengthened quantitative and analytic problem solving skills developed in the classroom and applied them in the laboratory.
• Well-versed in fundamental experimental skills including data acquisition, data analysis, and error analysis.
• Enhanced strong technical writing skills including documenting daily lab work as well as writing lab reports and lab journal maintenance.
Communication Skills
• Clarified goals and provided enabling training to build a successful team.
• Sensitive to both verbal and non-verbal clues, and used these to creatively address, analyze, and formulate solutions to problems.
• Attained strong listening and observational skills.
• Improved conversational Spanish by interpreting the needs of others at work.
Personal Skills
• Honed time management skills while balancing school, home, work, and responsibilities successfully.
• Developed mechanisms to deal with high stress work environments including prioritizing demands, anticipating problems, and efficient decision-making while keeping a positive attitude.
• Generated a very strong work ethic in being dependable for school and work.
• Initiated a positive attitude that seeks to maximize the value of every situation.
Lab Equipment Experience
• Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA)
• Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
• Simultaneous Differential Technique (SDT) Analyzer
• Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM)
• Some experience with the LKB microtome
• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR)
• BET Surface Area Analyzer
• X-Ray Diffraction (XRD)
• X-Ray Florescence (XRF)
• Instron Testing
• Gas Pycnometer
• Video Contact Angle (VCA), some experience calculating surface energy
• pH meter
• Horiba, Accusizer, Coulter Counter, Zeta-sizer, Plasmod
• Confocal and Optical microscopy
• Wyko surface profilometry
• Metallography
• Various wet chemistry apparatus, extractions, ashing, sieving
• Soldering, with both traditional lead solder and conductive epoxy onto flexible substrates
• Experience printing and building flexible electronics.
Work Experience
Process Development Engineer, Soligie, Savage, MN 06/12-Present
• Print and assemble flexible printed electronic pressure sensors, antennae and circuits.
• Hand-place micro components using a tweezers and a stereo microscope.
• Experience soldering small components with traditional lead solder and conductive epoxy on flexible substrates
• Data acquisition using the Keithley and Excel LINX program.
Lab Analyst I & II, Pace Analytical, 3M, St. Paul, MN 04/07-06/12
• Reverse engineer abrasive samples by using all techniques necessary to complete a full competitive analysis.
• Data acquisition, analysis, and presentation as instructed by 3M client.
• Continue to learn new techniques and instruments and develop instruction guides for future team members to use to be more efficient.
• Provide 3M clients with honest and accurate feedback on progress, problems, setbacks, and insight.
• Prepare a vast variety of samples for metallography, interferometry, and optical microscopy using a variety of techniques.
• Prepare various samples for the TGA, DSC, and SDT in a time effective manner while learning how to operate the instruments, use the software, and calibrate the TGA independently.
• Interpret and analyze data and begin initial reports and spreadsheets, meet deadlines efficiently, while paying close attention to detail.
Pizza Cook, Line Cook, Prep, The Little Oven, Maplewood, MN 07/10-Present
• Prepare, cook and serve pizzas, home-made pasta dishes in a fast-paced, high stress environment while maintaining a positive attitude and staying organized.
Manager, Kitchen Mgr., Server, Josephs Restaurant, Stillwater, MN 06/98-03...
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