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BACKGROUND
MARTIN R. CARBONE / 5123 Don Rodolfo Drive / Carlsbad, CA 92010 / Tel. [760]
603-1910 • Fax. [760] 603-1930 • email: martycarbone@yahoo.com
BIRTH: Newark, New Jersey ... May 14, 1932
EDUCATION:
• Public Schools … Irvington, N.J. … Graduated
1949
• Electronic Technician School … 1000 hour course … U.S. Coast
Guard
• Newark College of Engineering … Newark, N.J. … B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering (1956)
MILITARY SERVICE: U. S. Coast Guard - 1949 - 1952 - Electronic
Technician … Petty
Officer at 18 years of age … Honorable Discharge as Petty Officer 2nd
Class
EMPLOYMENT:
• Radio Corporation of America - 1956 - 1959
... Manufacturing Engineer
• Mack Truck - 1960 ... Quality Control Engineer
• Nuclear Corporation of America, Central Electronics Div. - 1961 - 62
... Quality Control Manager,then Sales Manager for High Vacuum Gauges
• Self Employed - 1962 to 1973 ... Sales Rep. … Manufacturer … Product
Developer … Consultant … Inventor
• Sloan Instruments, Santa Barbara, CA - 1965 ... Sales Manager … Member
Board of Directors … Major Stockholder (15% of company)
• Abbeon Cal, Santa Barbara, CA - 1973 - 1986 ... Member Board of Directors
... V.P. in charge of new products for this catalog seller of industrial products.
• Self Employed - 1986 to present ... Owner … Inventor ( Six
patents ) … Business and Product Developer ...
24 CLIENTS OR ASSOCIATES: ( covering approximately 52 major projects )
Lou Kniep and Associates --- Advertising agency ( approximate number of major
projects --- 2 )
Research and Development --- Magazine publisher ( 3 )
Electron Technology Inc. --- Manufacturer of high vacuum gauges ( 5 )
Morris, Nemeth & Kujowski --- High vacuum equipment manufacturer (1 )
F. J. Cooke, Inc. --- High vacuum equipment manufacturer ( 10 )
C.H.A. Industries --- High vacuum equipment manufacturer ( 2 )
Geophysics Corp. --- Research and development Group ( 1 )
Vac Tec --- High vacuum equipment manufacturer ( 1 )
Astrosystems Int'l. --- Product development Co. (1 )
E. I. Doucette, Inc. --- R & D group (10 )
W.M.Hicks --- Technical sales rep group ( 1 )
Kurt Lesker --- Manufacturer / distributor of high tech products ( 1 )
P.K. Engineering --- Manufacturer ( 2 )
Sloan Instruments --- Manufacture of high vacuum equipment ( 3 )
Larder and Sons --- Gold jewelry manufacturer ( 1 )
General Dynamics --- Aerospace manufacturer ( 1 )
Quad Group --- Manufacturer
of measuring instruments ( 1 )
Crawford Fitting Co. --- Manufacturer of aerospace fittings ( 1 )
Hallmark --- Greeting card manufacturer ( 1 )
Eldon Industries --- Toy manufacturer ( 2 )
E. J. Filipelli --- Developer / marketer of "DoodleArt" ( 1 )
Yardi Systems --- Software developer and publisher ( 1 )
Envelope & Business Printing --- Printer ( 1 )
Aleene's, Inc. --- Craft company ( 6 )
40 SIGNIFICANT SPECIFIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Roughly in chronological
order
• Autobiography published in "Berkeley News" (grammar school) when I was nine years old.
• Science award recipient in junior high school (9th grade).
• Highest batting average award, American Legion baseball, Spring Lake,
NJ (1948).
• Willie Ratner "Best fight of the night award", Golden Gloves.
• Petty Officer at 18 years of age while in Coast Guard
• Founding Member, Alpha Sigma Mu … National veteran's fraternity.
• Finalist, Intramural basketball in college.
• Member, Pi Tau Sigma … Honorary Mechanical Engineering fraternity.
• Joint Founder. Junior Achievement Program for high school students at Newark College of Engineering .
• Chairman, Class Night, graduating class of 1956.
• Finalist, Harvard MBA fellowship competition at RCA.
• Leading recipient for two years, " I Have Achieved The Impossible" award
at RCA after three months on the job.
• Bowled 692 three game series in a sanctioned league --- my first 600
series. It was the highest ever in that league up to that time.
• Developed high vacuum tube cathode Quality Control program at RCA.
• Developed analysis system for Quality Control program at Mack Truck.
• Established Quality Control department and created quality control manual
at Nuclear Corp, Of America.
• Challenged competitor's patent while at Nuclear Corp.; leading to new
product which yielded more than 50% of product line sales volume.
• Conceived of and developed alliance with Geophysics Corp. of America,
leading to the founding of Vac Tec, Inc. with Rockefeller money.
• Founded Mason Renshaw Industries.
• Editorial consultant to R & D magazine
• Conceived of and created the "High Vacuum Technology Directory" for
R&D magazine.
• Conceived of, wrote and edited, "Nothing Matters", a high vacuum
newsletter.
• Conceived of and started high tech incubator in 1963 ... may have been
the first one ever.
• Conceived of and created a revolutionary commission program for sales
reps at Sloan Instruments.
• Reorganized production department and wrote Production Management Manual
at Sloan. Hired new Production Manager.
• Developed machine to make flexible stainless steel tubing.
• Developed line of patented high vacuum fittings.
• Sold Flexible metal tubing product line for the equivalent of 12 years
income to Fred Lennon of Swagelok and Cajon Fittings. At the time, he was the 100th richest man in the U.S., according
to Forbes magazine.
• Gave 1 years income to my one employee of 3 months as his share of the
profits from the above sale.
• Contributed "Blue Sky Experiments" to a book on High Vacuum
Experiments published by the American Vacuum society.
• Designed and developed the first large Styrofoam glider. Sold design
on a royalty basis to Eldon Industries. More than 500,000 sold. (Figure 1)
• Developed GAPOXIO (tm), a ceramic/epoxy composite repair and construction
material which we sold by mail order to industrial accounts for 31 years.
• As General Manager and Vice President, took 20 year old mail order company
from $500,000 annual sales to $3,5000,000 in three years. At that time, we
were the largest user of UPS in Santa Barbara and the largest single user of
card
pack advertising in the world.
• Singlehandedly captured a purse snatcher on Fremont St. in downtown Las
Vegas.
• Conceived of and produced 1,000 page mail order catalog of industrial
products.
• Managed largest Card Deck Sales Program of industrial products in the
world for a decade. Personally wrote copy and did most of the art work for
more than 1000 cards -- probably more than any other person over that period.
• Finished 9th (final table) in Original World Series of Poker (7-card stud) at Binion's
(1976?)
• Knocked Johnny Moss, the Babe Ruth of poker players, out of a World Series
of Poker tournament in Las Vegas. (1977?)
• Conceived of, and started the Boys' Club
soccer league in Carpinteria, Cal. (1978)
• Invented Tabletop Boxmakers. Patent # 5,484,373 and four others. 300,000
Boxmakers sold in the craft market
• Semi-retired since 1996
• Self-published a book on teaching reading " Teach The Short Words First"
* Self-published "How-To make Boxes"
• Received a patent on a knife sharpening system in 2006.
• Compiled a list of 9,000 phonetic words and the rules they follow. Self
published a book (the link is a PDF)
on
the
subject.
• Developed a Website: http://www.alphabeticalist.com
• Directories written
31 PRODUCTS & BUSINESSES DEVELOPED BY MARTIN R. CARBONE IN 42 YEARS
1.
FLEXPAND™ Flexible Metal Tubing - Sold
to Crawford Fitting Company, - 1969 (still being produced)
2. Compress -O- Couplings ™ - (high vacuum fittings) - Sold to Crawford
Fitting Company, - 1969
3. Omegatron Mass Spectrometer - Developed with Vacunetics of Chatham, N.J. -
Sold to Sloan Inst. - 1964
4. Mason-Renshaw Industries - Sales representative company ( N.J. & N.Y.
) - sold to W.M. Hicks - 1963
5. Vacuum Technology Directory - Developed for Research & Development Magazine,
- 1963
6. High Tech Business Incubator - Developed for E.I. Doucette Associates, Chatham,
N.J. - 1963
7. Model Airplane Made from Molded Styrofoam - Sold to Eldon Industries 1971.
The most popular large flying model ever , if measured by number sold. Sold under
the name “Flying Eagle”.
8. FLOATERS™ (Small flying models) - Sold to E. J. Filapelli, the developer
of “Doodle-Art”, 1972
9. Boy’s Soccer League - turned over to Carpinteria Boy’s Club, 1978
(still going)
10. 1000 Page Industrial Catalog - done under contract to an industrial mail
order company, 1974 (still going)
11. FOUR-SCORE™ Box Making System - A system for making boxes of card stock
or corrugated cardboard at any desk, work shop, table or counter. U.S. Patent
# 5, 484, 373 plus three others. 300,000 units sold in the craft market in first
four years on market.
12. Max G™ Money Clip - World’s thinnest money clip.
13. Aunt Gladys’ ™ Photo Calendar - Put your photos in the calendar
with supplied adhesive strips.
14. Printing Business - Prototype low priced business capable of being duplicated
in other cities. Sold to Guadalupe Medina, 1995. (still operating)
15. FLUGEL™ Book - Do-it-yourself indoor flying discs.
16. PANCAKE ™ Binding System - An economical system for producing books
that lay flat and will not snap shut.
17. ROLLER COATER™ - Adhesive Applicator - Rolls on a film of pressure
sensitive adhesive to join any two flat surfaces at any later time.
18. GLUE STRIP ™ Adhesive Applicator - Applies a bead of pressure sensitive
adhesive. Loads into a standard caulking gun. (available)
19. STICK STOP™ - A system for coating pressure sensitive adhesive pellets
so they do not stick together - allowing them to be loaded into the applicators
described above.
20. INK-MOP™ - A superior wiper for cleaning printing plates.
21. Sanding Sticks™ - A sanding device for small projects.
22. Power Driven Rotary Ice Cream Scooper - For commercial use - saves significant
amount of time.
23. Anti-Status Patches ™ - For covering Designer Logos.
24. Magic Dice™ - 3 sets of two dice, each numbered differently. When thrown,
if numbers are totaled, on the average, Red beats White, White beats Green and
Green beats Red!
25. Reunion Books™ - An inexpensive way to make reunions more fun.
26. Professional Foam Cutter - A device for precisely cutting plastic foam. Used
by industrial model makers - sold 12,000 over the years.
27. GAZINTA™ Packaging System - A better way to pack & ship products.
28. Paper Finishing Factory - Prototype business for finishing (folding, collating,
booklet making, etc.) paper printed by any copier or printing press.
29. Carbone’s Warehouse - Managed a 5000 square foot warehouse in Santa
Barbara for five years --1995 to 1999.
30. Retail Store Concept - Developed plans for a retail store which will sell
paper, cardstock, adhesives, tapes, tools and paraphernalia related to scrapbooks,
photo albums, boxes, portfolios, envelopes, display cases & such in which
to store, preserve, protect and display memorabilia. This could be a stand-alone
location or a “Memory - Lane” section of an existing store.This store
could also serve industrial and commercial customers, making boxes for these
companies and processing paper and cardstock as in #28 above -- the store would
also sell various archival products for use by industrial companies.(this project
was shelved in 2001)
31. Technical Literature Check List and Writing Guide -- 1962 |
