Warren Vidrine's Résumé

• Aug.12,1948 · Born Drouét Warren Joseph-Pierre Vidrine, fils in Ville Platte, LA
• May ·· 1969 · B.S. Chemistry, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL
• 1969 - 1971 · Chemistry teacher, Xavier High School, St. Louis, MO
• 1971 - 1974 · Biochem. Lab Instructor, St. Louis U. Medical School
• May ·· 1974 · M.S. Biochemistry, St. Louis U., St. Louis, MO
• 1974 - 1977 · Chemistry Lab Instructor, U. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
• Nov. · 1977 · Ph.D. Physical Organic Chemistry, USC (ceremony 1/79)
• 1977 - 1981 · Applications Chemist, Nicolet Instrument Corp., Madison WI
• 1981 - 1986 · Chief Scientist, Nicolet Instrument Corp. Analytical Division
• 2/86 - 9/86 · Director of R&D, ASD Corp., Newton, MA
• Oct. · 1986 · (ASD Corp. bought by Measurex Corp., Cupertino, CA)
• 10/86- 2/90 · Senior Staff Scientist, ISG Division, Measurex Corp.
• 2/90 - 9/90 · Manager, Advanced Applications, LPC Analect Div., Irvine, CA
• 5/90 - 7/91 · Acting technical manager, LPC Analect Engineering Group
• 9/90 - 8/91 · Director of Technology, LPC Analect Div., Irvine, CA
• Aug. · 1991 · (Analect Div. bought by AWT & made part of KVB, Irvine, CA)
• 8/91 -12/93 · Member, Research-Cottrell Technology Leadership Committee
• 8/91 - 7/94 · Dev. Eng. Mgr. (9 persons) & Dir. of Technology, KVB/Analect
• 1992 - 7/94 · Management responsibility for Applications Lab (+3 persons)
• 1993 - 7/94 · Management responsibility for Production Eng. (+3½ persons)
• 1/94 - 9/94 · Member, AWT Corporate Integrated Technology Committee
• 2/94 - 7/94 · Management responsibility for Document Control (+1 person)
• July · 1994 · (founded Vidrine Consulting)
• - currently · General Manager, Vidrine Consulting

• Governing Board Member, Coblentz Society
• Chairman, Coblentz Bomem-Michelson Award Committee
• Chairman, S. CA Section, Society of Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) (2 terms)
• SAS Program Chairman, 1999 Pacific Conference
• National SAS Governing Board Member (8 years)
• Program Committee Member, 1998 SPIE (San Diego)
• Chairman, ASTM Task Force on FTIR (Subcommittee E13.03.02)
• Chairman, 1993 & 1994 SAS Arrowhead Conferences
• Adjunct Professor, California State University, Fullerton
• Member, original ICOFTS (now ICAVS) Organizing Committee
• Member, Instrumentation Advisory Panel, Analytical Chemistry
• Reviewer (Analytical Chemistry, Applied Spectroscopy, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Spectroscopy, LC/GC, PRF, NSF, Academic Press, Wiley) (many of these also represent current activities)

• E13 Committee Member, American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM)
• Advisory Panel, Spectroscopy Magazine
• Associate Editor, Handbook on Vibrational Spectroscopy
• Boards of Directors, HBD & HJVP Corporations
• General Manager, Vidrine Consulting

• Over 50 reviewed scientific publications, including 14 patents
• Many applications notes, instructional booklets, and training courses
• Invited speaker at 24 international conferences on 4 continents
• Approximately 500 technical presentations given so far

• National Merit Scholar
• SHC Liberal Arts Honors Program Graduate
• ACS Chemistry Program Honors Graduate
• NDEA Title IV Fellow
• Nicolet Corporate Fellow
• Current Titles: one of 10 most-cited papers in chemistry & spectroscopy
• Distinguished service citation, ASTM E13 Committee
• "Father of Invention" Award, KVB/Analect
• Williams-Wright Award, Coblentz Society
  

• Invented stochastic noise excitation NMR (with P.E. Peterson)
• 1st flowcell LC/FTIR accessory; 1st patented SFC/FTIR flowcell
• Developed Nicolet's capillary column GC/IR (with R. Julian)
• 1st photoacoustic/FTIR; 1st commercial FTIR/PAS accessory
• Invented double-modulation FTIR (with L. Nafie)
• Invented coaxial quadrature laser for FT-IR (with J. Kisslinger & al.)
• Invented rigid silicon far-IR beamsplitter
• 1st on-line industrial silicon impurity analyzer (with M. Roth)
• 1st on-line industrial magnetic disk lubricant analyzer (with F. Walder)
• Invented direct optical fiber ATR spectroscopy (with M. Roth)
• 1st in-situ fiber IR measurement of composite cure (with D. Compton)
• 1st automatic band-selection/nonlinear calibration method for FTIR
• 1st on-line sheet-scanning industrial FTIR analyzer (with D. Calhoun)
• Project manager for Diamond-20 FTIR spectrometer development
• Invented 3-D structure for refractively-scanned FT-IR (with F. Ponce)
• Invented gettering system for removing organic vapors from hermetic enclosure
• 1st on-line sparging FTIR analyzer (with B. McIntosh & M. Doyle)
• Lab automation system for calibrating oxygenates in gasoline
• 1st installed power plant FTIR-CEMS (with B. McIntosh & M. Marano)
• Thermal-regenerative design for alum sludge dewatering (with S. Bishop)
• Noninvasive heart rate monitor for exercise machine (with J. Kisslinger)
• Submicron epi silicon analyzer (with D. Northey)