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RESUME R. N. WHEELER, JR. 1912 Shady Branch Trail Richmond, Va. 23233 Telephone (804)741-9496 Graduate Chemical Engineer from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1943. Employed by Union Carbide Corporation in various capacities for over forty-two years. Career 1943 Gas Analyst Rubber Reserve Company Butadiene-Styrene Plant at Institute, West Virginia operated by Union Carbide Corporation. Quality control and special analytical projects involving process stream and vent sampling, sample fractionation and absorption spectroscopy of organic gases. 1944 Technical Assistant Rubber Reserve Company Butadiene-Styrene Plant at Institute, West Virginia. Production supervisor and technical project work in a styrene monomer plant. Operations involved liquid phase alkylation, liquid phase oxidation, liquid phase hydrogenation, vapor phase dehydration, gas separation and distillation. 1945 Technical Assistant Union Carbide Corporation plant at South Charleston, West Virginia. Production supervision and technical project work in solvent polymerization of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate. Operations involved polymerization monomer recovery, solvent recovery and process development. RNW20044 RESUME 1947 1952 1958 1959 1965 1968 Page 2 Career Production Supervisor Union Carbide Corporation plant at South Charleston, West Virginia. Production supervision and technical project work in the solvent polymerization of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate. Initiated production of vinyl alcohol terpolymer resins. Production Department Head Union Carbide Corporation plant in South Charleston, West Virginia. Responsible charge of production facilities and personnel in the solvent vinyl resin plant. Converted the plant from batch to continuous operation. Initiated production of vinyl alkyl ether polymers. Production Department Head at-Large Union Carbide Corporation plant at South Charleston, West Virginia. Engineering design project, new process evaluation and business, and economic analysis. Area Supervisor Union Carbide Corporation plant at South Charleston, West Virginia. Responsible charge of facilities and personnel by the manufacture of solution vinyl chloride resins, vinyl aklyl ether resins, polyethylene oxide, and vinyl acetate resins and latexes. Area Superintendent Union Carbide Corporation plant at South Charleston, West Virginia. Responsible charge of facilities and personnel for the manufacture of vinyl chloride monomer, solution vinyl chloride resins, vinyl acetate resins, dispersion vinyl chloride resins, and vinyl alkyl ether resins. Union Carbide Corporation representative to MCA for planning and coordinating the acro-osteolysis epidemiological study. Production Manager for Vinyl Resins Union Carbide Corporation plants at South Charleston, West Virginia and Texas City, Texas. Responsible for manufacture of suspension PVC, bulk PVC, and dispersion PVC resins. The assignment was later revised to dispersion PVC resins, vinyl acetate resins and vinyl alkyl ether resins. Continued work on MCA's acro-osteolysis epidemiological study. RNW20045 RESUME 1971 1978 1980 1985 Page 3 Career Technical Superintendent for Vinyl Resins Union Carbide Corporation plant at South Charleston, West Virginia. Special projects and problems-for the plant and for the vinyl resins Operations Teams including business planning and analysis, customer service, occupational health and governmental regulations. Served as Chairman of the MCA Ad Hoc Vinyl Chloride Committee while the research program was organized, planned and funded. Project Manager for Environmental Protection and Occupational Health Union Carbide Corporation Chemicals and Plastics Division, SHARE Group (Safety, Health and Environment). Responsible for projects related to occupational health, environmental protection and governmental regulations. Assistant Director of Product Safety Union Carbide Corporation Health, Safety and Environmental Affairs Group. Coordinate and plan activities within Union Carbide Corporation to further product safety concepts and objectives with particular reference to trade organizations, governmental regulations and product liability. Retired RNW20046 RESUME Page 4 ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES I. Organization Resources Counselors Washington, D.C. 1. Vinyl Chloride Task Force 2. PVC Fabricating Industry, Epidemiology Steering Committee II. Society of Plastics Industries VC-PVC Producers Association New York, New York 1. VCM-PVC EPA Technical Committee 2. Health Study Committee III. Manufacturing Chemists Association Washington, D.C. 1. Vinyl Chloride Technical Committee a. VCM Research Program Coordination lb. VCM Safety Data Sheet Subcommittee 2. Styrene Toxicity Technical Panel IV. Society of the Plastics Industry New York, New York 1. Acrylonitrile Copolymer Group 2. Toxicology Committee a. Vinyls Subcommittee b. Vinyl Acetate Study Task Force 3. Ad hoc Committee on Ethylene Diehloride 4. Ad hoc Committee on Epichlorohydrin V. Organization Resources Counselors Washington, D.C. 1. Acrylonitrile Task Force 2. OSHA Generic Carcinogen Proposal Task Force RNW20047 RESUME Page 5 PUBLICATIONS 1. Wheeler, Jr., R. N., and Sutherland, M. E., "Control of Vinyl Chloride Emissions in Distribution Operations", American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Houston Meeting - 1974. 2. Wheeler, Jr., R. N., "Specialty Vinyl Chloride Resin Processes, Effects of Governmental Regulations", American Chemical Society, San Francisco Meeting - 1976. 3. Wheeler, Jr., R. N., "Automatic Monitoring Systems for Vinyl Chloride", American Institute of Chemical Engineers, New York Meeting - 1977. 4. Wheeler, Jr., R. N., Barr, J. T., Laundrie, R. W. and Snyder, P. J., "Properties and Essential Information for Safe Handling and Use of Vinyl Chloride", April 1, 1977 - NIOSH Symposium on Control Technology in the Plastics and Resins Industry, Atlanta, Georgia - February 28, 1979. 5. Wheeler, Jr., R. N., "Training, A Work Practice", NIOSH Symposium on Control Technology in the Plastics and Resins Industry, Atlanta, Georgia - February 28, 1979. 6. Wheeler, Jr., R. N., "Performance Standards - The Key to Optimum Governmental Regulation", American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Boston Meeting, August, 1979. 7. Wheeler, Jr., R. N., "Polyvinyl Chloride Processes and Products", Conference to Re-evaluate the Toxicity of Vinyl Chloride, Polyvinyl Chloride and Structural Analogues, NIEHS, NIOSH, OSHA March, 1980. RNW20048