
Vice President of Technology at APL Engineered Materials, Inc. and Owner, Rotating Objects, Inc.
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Vice President of Technology at APL Engineered Materials, Inc. and Owner, Rotating Objects, Inc.
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
General responsibility for research and development programs, new product development and materials characterization. Built an instrumental chemical analysis laboratory and developed chemical synthesis processes and electromechanical equipment for discharge lamp materials. Served as Project Director for the selection and successful implementation of an integrated business computer (ERP) system and, most recently, was Principal Investigator for a DARPA research grant for the development of new metal halide discharge lamps. Currently leads the Advanced Technology Group and manages programs in lamp chemistry and materials engineering.
Broad expertise and experience in the areas of inorganic, physical and analytical chemistry. Areas of specialization include the preparation and characterization of high purity materials for electric discharge lamps, high temperature materials chemistry, mathematical modeling, electrochemistry and instrumentation electronics.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
2004 — Present (5 years)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Chemicals industry)
1980 — Present (29 years)
(Public Company; Chemicals industry)
1995 — 2007 (12 years)
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
1979 — 1980 (1 year)
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
1978 — 1979 (1 year)
Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry, 1973 — 1978
Dr. Brumleve holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1978) where he held the first Morehead Fellowship in Chemistry. He earned his B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana (1973) with high honors and highest departmental distinction. He performed postdoctoral research work in electroanalytical chemistry at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, 1978-1979, and has held academic positions as a Visiting Lecturer at the State University of New York at Buffalo and other teaching and research positions at the University of North Carolina, at the University of Illinois, and at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
B.S., Chemistry, 1969 — 1973
PERSONAL INTERESTS, Antique radios, TV's, test equipment, 78 rpm records, computer music, British, (Triumph), motorcycles,
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES,
American Chemical Society, Division of Analytical Chemistry,
The Electrochemical Society,
American Ceramic Society,
Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry,
IEEE, Society Affiliate., International Symposium on the Science & Technology of Light Sources Organizing Committee
First Morehead Fellow in Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1973-1977,
High Honors and Highest Departmental Distinction in Chemistry, Univ. of Illinois,1973,.
Edmund J. James Scholar (1969-1972) and Bronze Tablet (1973), Univ. of Illinois,
ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Award, Univ. of Illinois, 1972,
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Phi Eta Sigma.