Francis “Fran” J. Lorin
1425 Eads St, #607
Arlington, VA 22202
571-235-7611
franlorin@mail.com
websites: www.siberkhem.com (English, French, Dutch), siberkhem.blogspot.com (earlier websites: www.angelfire.com/va3/patent; www.patent.0catch.com, brevet.sky.prohosting.com (French only), members.lycos.nl/octrooi (Dutch only))
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Objective: freelance or contract work in the fields of intellectual property (e.g., patent search, patent application writing, trend analysis), technical writing and/or linguistics (e.g., translation, document/claim analysis)
Education
Work History
SiberKhem Company, registered in Virginia: Sole Proprietor
freelance and contract services in the intellectual property, technical writing, and linguistics (e.g., translation) fields
US Patent and Trademark Office, Arlington, VA: Primary Patent Examiner
examination of patent applications; examined in the chemical arts, Classes 156 and 428, and in the electrical and mechanical arts in class 152 [total patents issued 1990-2001: 650]
US Patent and Trademark Office, Arlington, VA: Patent Examiner
examination of patent applications in classes 152 and 156
CyberChem Company, registered in MD: Sole Proprietor
technical training services to the chemical process industries; demineralizer performance and basic distillation column training courses; all material researched, written, produced, marketed and presented; major client: Dow Chemical Co.
General Physics Corporation, Columbia, MD: Technical Writer/Trainer
technical training materials developed and services provided for the fossil and nuclear utility industries; major clients: PEPCO, BG&E, Dayton Power & Light, Toledo Edison
Ohio Edison Electric Company, Akron, OH:
Performance Engineer, W.H. Sammis Generating Station, Stratton, OH, 7units, 2.3GW total, coal-fired
performance tests on various plant process equipment (e.g., boiler, turbine, pump, coal pulverizer, condenser), conducted measurements/analysis/reports
Chemical Engineer, Ohio Edison Chemical Laboratory, Fairlawn, OH
boiler acid washes when needed for coal-fired plants, fuel oil monitoring, laboratory analysis, e.g., ion exchange (Dionex) for high purity water analysis, gas chromatography for oil, sulfur oven for coal, etc.; general analytical work, e.g., pH, conductivity, etc., and reports for generating plants
Skills
· Languages
Dutch: average fluency, conversation/translation
French: average fluency, conversation/translation
Russian: college course (3 semesters)
Japanese: self-taught since 1991, beginner-intermediate level, approximate current proficiency: Level 3 (2007 Japanese Proficiency Test)
· Computer
Fortran, Pascal/Ada (e.g., mathematical discretization of fluid flow differential equations using Newton’s approximation, string manipulation, text searching), C/C++ (GCC), PHP, HTML, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, MySQL (various levels of proficiency, ongoing use and learning)
Databases:: routine use: USPTO (EAST/WEST at Public Search Room in Alexandria, VA, uspto.gov), EPO (espacenet.com), JPO (ipdl.inpit.go.jp); limited use: PubMed by NCBI (3-hour hands-on course taken at NIH in 2007)
Dexterity:: Matias Half Keyboard (left hand), Frogpad: 7-year proficiency at single-handed typing (current speed: 40-60 wpm)
· Certificate
Engineer-in-Training
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