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Floyd R.

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Floyd Roberts has appeared on the discovery channels feature piece on rapid prototyping and has been cited and featured in articles from ASTM\'s Standardization News to Business week magazine. He is responsible for several patents, has earned a Masters (materials engineering), an MBA, and is registered to practice law before the US patent and trademark office. Floyd used to be a heck of an Ultimate Frisbee Player with over 8 trips to the national or world championships. Most Importantly he has yet to loose his sense of curiosity and wonder.

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Experience

CEO

MPAC
Sep 1999 - Dec 2012 (13 years, 3 months)
How do you describe the work of a CEO of a small manufacturing operation. From a technical writing standpoint.....I prepared grants in partnership with a wide variety of organizations covering a wide spectrum of subject areas from fisheries to launch pad coatings to environmental mitigation. This position has required technical writing in a wide variety of formats for a breadth of purposes. I have written technical specifications and documentation for products, prepared patents, written marketing mat

VP of Engineering

MLA Patient Transfer Systems
May 1998 - Nov 1999 (1 year, 6 months)
Oversaw all Engineering operations Staff of 4 Brought in to correct product development bottleneck of 3 yrs - within 1 year brought 2 new products to market and upgrades of two others.Oversaw all Engineering operations Staff of 4 Brought in to correct product development bottleneck of 3 yrs - within 1 year brought 2 new products to market and upgrades of two others. Responsible for technical documentation, patent preparation, and proposal preparation among other technical writing responsibilities.

Rocket Scientist

NASA MSFC
Sep 1989 - Aug 1999 (9 years, 11 months)
In a decade of work at MSFC I was fortunate enough to be involved with a very wide variety of projects and programs. From the development and championing of NASA's premier rapid-prototyping facility (8years) to coatings responsibility on Space Station Freedom, and production QC on the shuttle solid rocket boosters to redesign of Space Shuttle Main Engine Turbopump bearings, to design of Martian habitation facilities and in situ fuel production, to lost wax foundry development to When I started at Marshall

Education

MBA

Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, United States 1991 - 1996
(5 years)

Masters Material Science

University of Florida, United States 1986 - 1990
(4 years)

Mechanical Engineering

The George Washington University, United States 1981 - 1986
(5 years)

Qualifications

FINRA Arbitrator

FINRA
2005
Registered FINRA arbitrator

Business Broker / Real estate lic

State of Florida
2001
I was a buisness broker which requires a Florida Real Estate License

Registered Patent Agent

USPTO
1993
Passed Patent Bar Registered Patent Agent #32935;

Publications

Application of Rapid Prototyping Models to Transoinc Wind Tunnel Testing

A.Springer, K.Cooper, and F.Roberts. Proceedings of the AIAA 97-0988
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The Third Dimension

ASTM Standaridzation News Vol 25 No 2 Feb 1997
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Effect of processing Parameters on surface finish for fused deposition of Machinable wax patterns

AFS Transactionans 95-64 pg 305-308
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Rapid Prototyping at Zero Gravity for In-Flight Repairs and Fabrication on Space Station Freedom

Proceedings of the Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium 1992 - Austin Tx
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Improved oxyacetylene torch diamond growth

Advanced Coatings and Surface Technology issn 0896-422x Vol 8 no 8 August 1995

Multi gas coating control system

Proceedings of the controls and simulations conference Pittsburg Pa. 1996
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Optical Measurements on Solid Specimens of Solid Rocket Motor Exhaust and Solid Rocket Motor Slag

Nasa Technical Paper 3177
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