Robert Edgar
Senior Process Engineer And Melt Shop Quality at Gerdau Specialty Steel
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Edgar is a senior process engineer with 15 years of melt shop experience at Gerdau Specialty Steel, specializing in alloy and carbon steel production across melting, continuous casting, and raw materials management. He has led cross-functional teams—managing a 34-person caster operation and a 12-person scrap yard—while overseeing $180M in annual scrap inventory and driving cost reduction, metallic loss control, and quality improvements. As a Six Sigma–oriented practitioner and failure-analysis lead, he has implemented Level 2 control systems and SAP for melting operations and run trials to introduce new steel grades. Robert’s blend of hands-on operations leadership and process-engineering rigor makes him adept at translating shop-floor data into repeatable quality and efficiency gains, with a track record of increasing sequence lengths and stabilizing EAF processes.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
2008, Industrial and Operations Engineering, 2008, Industrial and Operations Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (74)
benchmark10
computational-biology10
protein-sequences10
biology10
sequence-alignment10
algorithms10
bioinformatics10
protein-structure10
sequence10
scalable9
viterbi9
bar-code9
aws9
open-science9
structural-biology8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rcedgar/palmdb
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Database of virus RdRP barcode sequences
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
bar-codedatabase
rcedgar/palm_annot
Mar 2023 - May 2026
Scripts, HMMs and search databases for identifying and classifying viral RdRp sequences
Contributions:1 PR, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
databasedatabases
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