David Schmit, Ei Email & Phone Number

Northbrook, Il

Engineering consulting services focusing on failure investigations and laboratory testing of metal structures and components.-Project Manager of failure examination and laboratory assessment projects.-Support in forensic investigations of hundreds of projects ranging from pressure vessel explosions and subsequent fire damage to corrosion of underground domestic water lines.-Routine laboratory testing as part of product quality assurance and verification with national or international specifications such as hardness testing, chemical composition, or metallography.-Fracture analysis of components to determine mode of failure in cases of overload, fatigue, creep, stress-cracking, and more.-Corrosion testing to determine corrosion rates in certain solutions and deposit analysis to isolate potential sources for corrosive species.-Laboratory use of SEM/EDS, OES, Optical Microscopy, Brinell, Rockwell, Microhardness, XRF, XRD

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Evansville, Indiana Area

· Managed client accounts by maintaining effective communication between departments and keeping up-to-date and organized notes on projects to ensure maximum productivity.· Instructed managers of different departments to complete integral tasks for ongoing projects.· Actively engaged clients and engineers to address problems quickly and effectively.· Created spreadsheets used to evaluate productivity and collaborated with managers to increase work flow.

·Created data structure allowing upper management to effectively perform audit of project manager’s technical work product·Audited client database ensuring consistency of information; made recommendations for corrections·Geo-tagged over 40,000 project locations completing data integrity allowing for thorough and relevant verification of conflicts of interest

Interacted with consumers on a daily basis, trained new employees, and maintained front of the store

Materials Science Engineering, Materials Engineering

Keramos (Materials Science Professional Fraternity) MA (Materials Advantage - Society for undergrad students in MatSE)

Master Of Education - Med, Physics Teacher Education

Materials Engineering

Activities and Societies: Study abroad program: May 2016 - July 2016· Continued language and culture studies. · Enhanced decision making.