Owner, Macatea Productions and Information Technology and Services Consultant
Greenville, South Carolina Area
- Current
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- Freelance Technical Editor at ScienceDocs
- Owner at Macatea Productions (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Senior Scientist at Stealth-Mode Startup, Silicon Valley, CA
- Professor of Chemical Engineering at Clemson University
- Officer at U. S. Navy
- Education
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- University of Florida
- Vanderbilt University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
James M. Haile’s Summary
Original, independent, creative thinker that can stimulate team efforts toward problem solving. Ability to adjust problem-solving strategies to find new insights and lines of attack. Preference for whole-system analyses rather than piece wise quick-fixes.
Adept at finding and identifying underlying causes and sources of problems, developing a plan of attack, uncovering secondary issues, and following through to resolution.
Advanced ability to digest highly technical material and convey the essence in a form that is understandable to a target audience.
Comfortable in cross-disciplinary environments, including physicists, chemists, engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists, educational psychologists, artists.
Expert in thermodynamics, classical statistical mechanics, molecular dynamics simulation, Monte Carlo simulation, molecular theory, solution theories, thermophysical properties of fluids, applied numerical methods, numerical analysis, data analysis, technical writing, technical editing, technical illustration.
James M. Haile’s Specialties:
FrameMaker, LaTeX, Photoshop, HTML,PHP, CSS, RSS, MySQL, MediaWiki, Fortran, Word; some Unix, some C++ and Javascript.
Experienced in standards-compliant design and maintenance of websites using HTML, CSS, PHP in an open-source (LAMP) environment.
Experienced in page layout, design, and composition of technical books, including text, tables, figures, schematic diagrams, equations, computer code. Designed four-color book covers. Conversant in digital and off-set print technologies.
James M. Haile’s Experience
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Freelance Technical Editor
ScienceDocs
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
Perform editing of highly technical content, especially research papers and theses in physics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, economics, and psychology. Editing includes correcting for proper use of English, revising page layout to meet journal requirements, verifying equations, and confirming logic of presentations. Editing routinely done either in MS Word or LaTeX.
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Owner
Macatea Productions (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — Present (7 years 7 months)
Publish, edit, write, illustrate, and design printed books and ebooks in engineering, education, and technical communication. Prepare books for printing and manage printing via both offset and digital technologies. Develop and maintain company website of 150+ pages that includes technical articles, book reviews, fluid-property calculators, RSS feeds, widget for Mac OS X, and shopping cart.
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Senior Scientist
Stealth-Mode Startup, Silicon Valley, CA
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)
September 2006 — April 2007 (8 months)
In charge of developing proprietary methods for analyzing information transmitted across intranets; in charge of developing company's public website and company's communication with customers through technical articles, user's manuals, and product guides.
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Professor of Chemical Engineering
Clemson University
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1976 — December 2000 (24 years 5 months)
Developed and taught courses in thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, molecular-scale computer simulation, numerical methods, data analysis, technical communications. Supervised research of Masters and PhD students, as well as post-doctoral associates. Performed original research funded by National Science Foundation, ACS-PRF, Research Corporation, and NATO. Author of numerous technical papers and books.
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Officer
U. S. Navy
(Government Agency; Military industry)
September 1968 — November 1972 (4 years 3 months)
Sea duty in Gulf of Tonkin and Persian Gulf. Qualified Engineering Officer of the Watch on 600-psi steam plants; qualified Officer of the Deck (Underway).
James M. Haile’s Education
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University of Florida
PhD, Chemical Engineering, 1973 — 1976
PhD thesis titled "Surface Tension and Computer Simulation of Polyatomic Fluids'
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Vanderbilt University
BS, Chemical Engineering, 1964 — 1968
- Activities and Societies:
- AIChE
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James M. Haile’s Interests:
information architecture; website development; organization and dissemination of highly technical content through written, oral, and web-based media; music composition
James M. Haile’s Honors:
Presidential Young Investigator Award from National Science Foundation;
Corcoran Award from American Society for Engineering Education;
McQueen Quattlebaum Faculty Achievement Award from Clemson University
James M. Haile’s Contact Settings
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