Charles Mire Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, ON, CA

• Finance:
• Financial analysis of P&L and cost breakdowns
• Built a financial model to aid scenario projections and growth planning, updating monthly
• Increased cash efficiency through banking & financial structures for U.S. branch
• Prepare reconciliations for accountants for U.S. (federal & state) & Canadian tax filings and transfer pricing agreements
• Responsible for cash flow management & currency exchange across multiple bank accounts

• Developed and delivered lectures for the Lab2Market and Raise programs; topics included “Investor Ready Checklist,” “Communicating Deeptech,” and “Revenue Streams and Cost Structure.”
• Mentored entrepreneurs through office hours and 1:1 meetings; topics included IP, Go-To-Market, traction, Product Market Fit/Founder Market Fit, investor relations, due diligence, business model and market size.
• Screened program applications for Lab2Market and Raise for final selections.
• Coached entrepreneurs in Lab2Market and Raise on pitch deck content and delivery.

Advised an assigned group of deep tech entrepreneurs within the cohort to help them assess the market opportunity and market readiness of their academic research projects. Topics include IP strategies, market interview feedback, fundraising/finance, general business/entrepreneur coaching, legal details (e.g., shareholders agreement, NDAs), operations, and.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Fundraising: Crowdfunded $126,000 on Kickstarter (exceeding the initial target by 400%); Raised $650,000 in further funding. Accepted into three respected accelerator programs: Communitech HYPERDRIVE (March 2014), HAX.
• Finance: Responsible for cash flow, SR&ED claims
• Operations: Responsible for global logistics, inventory management, supply chain, manufacturing, supplier & reseller contracts, and IP filings.
• Product Management: Steered the launch of 3 products, from concept to market.
• Sales & Customer Success: Technical sales engagement with customers at all stages, including pre-sales, fulfillment, post-sales & onboarding/training, and long-term technical support. Sold over $1M of product worldwide.

Waterloo, Ontario

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

Waterloo, ON

• Worked across a broad range of materials deposition methods (extrusion, aerosol, inkjet, capillary, screen printing), my responsibilities included:
• Experiment design a. Outline standard conditions and variables for materials testing; b. Constructed custom equipment (e.g., goniometer based on a webcam) for experiments
• Materials testing a. Investigate printability, durability, and electrical characteristics of interconnect materials; b. Investigate novel materials for standard processes, such as die attach
• Data analysis: review matrix of data to determine trends in materials and methods
• Summary reports a. Write executive summaries reviewing experimental results b. Draft reviews of potential equipment for acquisition c. Illustrate details of printing complexities to improve team understanding of.
• New ideas: generation, testing, verification

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• 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.

Thesis: Printing Conducting Polymer Structures on and Embedded in Biopolymer Platforms.Intelligent Polymer Research Institute (IPRI), ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES),School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong.IPRI/ACES is a multi-disciplined research group investigating the use of conducting polymers in organic synthesis.

• 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.

• I worked on a variety of back-end software development projects that mostly dealt with intelligent automation, verifying data integrity, automatic error-handling, regular expressions, and file parsing.Technologies.
• Re-engineered legacy processes and resolved data issues using a combination of Perl, Unix shell scripts (bash, korn, sed, awk), and SQL with Oracle and Sybase databases.
• Engineered job-controlling program (using Perl) to replace use of Unix crontab, and implemented it over multiple business units to run over 300 jobs daily.
• Consolidated FTP functionality onto single FTP server for multiple business units, and engineered processes to handle various FTP jobs.
• Resolved data issues using SQLPlus, TOAD, DBArtisan, hex editors, and other tools as needed.
• Maintained PGP key server.

• 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.

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.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemistry

Msc, Applied Physics

Bachelors, Russian

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.