Richard Seale

Machinery Specialist  Designer  Inventor  Entrepreneur  Consultant

Montreal, Canada

Specialties

 Food preservation. Lyophilization. Cryodesiccation.
 Process and packaging automation.
 Vacuum, gas flush.
 Machine design, fabrication, sales and installation.
 Vacuum casting.
 PhotoBioReactor design and testing.
 Energetic materials development.
 Substantial experience in energetic materials: formulation and vacuum casting.
 Lipid separation catalyst experimentation.

Current

Owner
Infinity-Systems (Machinery industry)

Design, fabrication/acquisition, installation and repair of machinery for the food processing/packaging industry.
Design, fabrication/acquisition, installation and repair of machinery for the pharmaceutical industry.
Thorough knowledge of regulatory requirements, including HACCP, cGCP, ISO.

1980 – Present (31 years)

Experience

Consultant Contributor
Think Tanks / Management Consulting

 ProdigyWorks
 Innocentive
 IdeaConnection
 Mensa Process

Brainstorming in a team or individual environment to develop solutions to various invention challenges (under Non-Disclosure Agreements) in a wide variety of industries.

"Think of the Mensa Process as your private brain trust — a group of exceptionally intelligent, highly creative people dedicated to helping your organization address its most vexing challenges. Drawing on the unique abilities of Mensa members around the globe, this company is a Mensa partner internationally and provides novel input and breakthrough thinking on the issues you face today — and the challenges you’ll face tomorrow — including problem solving, new product creation and brand evolution."

2010 – present

Webmaster / Information Officer
Mensa Montreal

Volunteered to maintain a Joomla-based social-interaction website for Mensa Montreal for a period of time.

2010

Consultant contractor - Machinery industry

Naval Engineering Test Establishment - Supplied advanced rapid-prototyping technology protocols for electronics projects. (1992)

DREV - Defense Research Establishment: Valcartier, QC - Designed and developed new processes and machinery to more accurately mix, handle and cast energetic materials for both propellant and warhead. (1991)
Subsequently consulted and supplied similar technology for other plants in McMasterville and Brownsburg QC. The following year the CF Artillery ranked #1 in Commonwealth competitions.


VP Engineering
M2M Robotics / Mind to Matter Robotics

Machinery industry

1983 – 1990

Co-founded company to develop and capitalize my invention. Produced wire-wrapping machine and associated necessary software to allow the EE designer to take logical information from the schematic capture application and the physical information from the layout application, resolve the wire paths and create the matrix to be wired in the machine. The machine used an insulation-displacement wire wrapping technique which is the same as the Voyageur spacecraft - and it is still working since 1977.
Participated in IPO with LavalinTech a subsidiary of Lavalin Engineering (now SNC Lavalin) to raise C$10M.

Consultant - Designer
General Electric Nuclear (Peterborough)

With co-contributor Dr Jerry S. the retired Metallurgist from P&W we designed a nuclear fuel bundle brazing apparatus to perform the automatic assembly in vacuum (with a little Ar at 0Bar05) without human intervention. Subsequently I further consulted with Electric Boat for a similar requirement.

Communications Software Manager
MICOM Philips Electronics WordProcessing

Z80-based workstation pre-dated PCs. I wrote communications software to allow these WordProcessors to communicate with IBM mainframes in 2780/3780 protocol then a full emulation and implementation of 3276 with 3278 printer and 3270 concentrator. Developed (designed, coded, tested) Text Storage and Retrieval software for mainframe archival and retrieval of full format wordprocessing data.
EMACS on UNIX environment on Vax 11-780.
Supervised junior programmers for coding Z80 SIO subroutines and applications for common communications protocols.


Racing Officer - Regatta Chairman
Canadian Forces Sailing Association - Point Picard

With a partner I ran the world wide CF Regatta in 1992 and then continued on to run the racing program at CFSA Pt Picard. Since I was certified by CYA as a Race Chairman I enjoyed contributing to the management of many races on Lake St Louis.

1992 – 2002

Instructor: Marine Electronics, VHF Radio, HAM Radio
Canadian Power and Sail Squadron

I taught night courses at Lower Canada College (NDG) in Marine Electronics, VHF Radio (seminar - 3 week course) and Amateur Radio (VE2FEL) and in addition graded all English and French Marine Electronics from Eastern Canada. I supervised the VHF and Amateur Radio exams, corrected and scored the exams and issued the licenses on behalf of Industry Canada.
I discovered that I love to teach.

1990 – 2002

Summer Student
High Altitude Research Project - McGill University

Employer Dr. Gerald Bull, (Dr. Gerry) McGill physics professor - employed students for summer employment as human calculators at Highwater, QC for the HARP gas cannon calculations.

1969 – 1973

Education
Concordia University
Commerce
1978

Additional Information

Interests and Leisure Activities

Sailing, HAM radio, Scottish Country Dancing, Ballroom dancing, Racketball.

Groups and Associations:

ARRL HAM Radio
LinkedIn groups:
Startup Specialists
Open Source
The UNIX and Linux Forums Users
Linux Expert
Mensa International
OmniBiz
The Mind Society
Intertel
InnoCentive
ProdigyWorks


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