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More than 45 years of experience in science and technology with more than 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books and 13 U.S. patents. Mentored 39 Ph.D. and 9 M.S. students in the fields of atmospheric and analytical chemistry while on the faculties of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Twenty years of experience at 2B Technologies, a company I co-founded in 1998, where I am involved in all aspects of business ranging from R&D to marketing and sales. My goal is to continue to develop new, innovative products while greatly expanding sales and the markets we address. Our niche is highly portable instruments for air pollution measurements with high precision and accuracy. We are looking for new business partners for OEM arrangements and distribution of products throughout the world.My current passion is the Global Ozone Project for middle and high schools students. In the "GO3 Project" students measure ground-level ozone and meteorological parameters outside their schools and upload their data to an overlay in Google Earth. Schools are funded by individual, small business and large corporation donations to the GO3 Foundation. We recently added the Black Carbon Experiment, CO2 Experiment and AQTreks to the GO3 Project. You can learn more at www.go3project.com.Specialties: Atmospheric chemistry, invention of new detection technologies, instrumentation development, small business development and management.

Listed skills include Chemistry, Science, Analytical Chemistry, Research, and 23 others.