Achievements:

• Develop new process and engineering technology, green technology to provide a cost and quality leadership position Perform engineering analysis to identify opportunities for development.
• Use designed experiments to demonstrate statistically validate results to justify commercialization programs.
• Direct and participate in process-related trials utilizing pilot equipment. Lead scale-up from laboratory of promising processes to full scale production lines.
• Recognize challenges in technical platform and the need to engage a variety of resources (internal and external), such as outside laboratory testing, vendor identification, reverse engineer to consistently overcome the most challenging technical problems. Explore and participate in the use of technologies, such as Nano and Sol-gel for enhancing performance. Member of Ohio Third Frontier programs to promote science.
• Plan, organize, and execute a successful support of coatings and materials technology for various substrates: paper, synthetic paper, cloth, metal, sponges, glass fibers, polyester cloth
• Identify and Participate in the selection and validation of performance of vendors for newer products and re-engineering resourcesand raw material sourcing – Supply Chain
• Ensure that products produced in plants meet performance specifications and certification. Quality Assurance.
• Support the operation on a global level, raw material purchase specification development, address management process and reviews, new product development process and production startup of new/improved lines, and develop best practices. Budgeting and establishing financial metrics.
• Document intellectual properties in Searchable database for future references and innovation entries.
• Help in the safety and lean manufacturing principles, such as “DuPont – STOP”, BBS, 5S, Kaizen and stage-gate techniques.
• Multi-national team and consulting development in manufacturing/certification and technical outsourcing of products for global leverage of cost. Can speak multiple languages-Asian
• Re-engineering to achieve financial foot-prints and metrics

Material Science, Areas of expertise: (Abrasive/Metallurgy/Nano)

Develop methodologies and design for automotive/consumer/building construction industries in coating, RIM molding, Injection molding, rapid prototyping/printing and PUR technologies. Grinding wheel and sandpaper, abrasive sponges, vitrified disks technologies using sol-gel alumina.

Develop ASTM procedures for Nuclear reactor material tests – metallurgical testing, Oil, Corrosion and accelerated test set-up confirming to industry standards. NEMA association member for Laminates – LD-3.

Development of Glass Fiber/Aramid/carbon weaving/Sizing for shield plates manufacturing for defense resources and abrasive, rectifier technologies

Development of Thermoset resins for various laminating, solid surfacing, engineered stones, flooring, filter, foam, grinding, sanding, electronics, building products and can coating applications. Low HCHO (formaldehyde) resin technologies and alternatives – Bio composites – Fibers, Starch, Soy extenders. Shape Memory technologies for flexible polymer products. Green technologies of grain resources, recycle materials, non formaldehyde, Bio-Mass, non-Phthalates as additives.

Identifying/implementing use of recycled materials for surfacing technologies.

UV coated system technologies; Chemical vapor deposition for improved surface properties – laminate and grinding wheel areas. Encapsulated technologies for timed cure/release. Surfactant, emulsion polymerization techniques and development for surfacing.

Laminating, Abrasive treating and curing technologies for HPL/TFM/CPL/Flooring for surface improvement to prevent damage, stain resistance, also prevent damage of plates for Laminate industry (Furniture): Scuff/Mar/Scratch/Taber, flow control for enhanced effects, extending resin for cost, correlating mar and scratch with Taber for optimization of surfaces.

Pressing and thermal cure technologies for composites, pre-pregs, laminates –HPL, LP, TFM, flooring, pre-pregs and grinding wheel areas.

MDF, Particle Board technologies to develop non –cracking/crazing TFM/LP/Flooring, with optimized fine layering and fiber selection and resin technologies

Development of Sol-gel technologies, Nano technologies for paper and abrasive fields (sandpaper/cut-off blades/sponges and screens)

Adhesive and glue technologies and coater identification for various substrates of many arts – organic, ceramic

Foam technologies, Rapid prototyping for tooling, release technologies – Nano, plasma- coating for multiple releases

Energy Audits, alternative fuel (Gobar gas – Methane from cow dung), solar power-India

Software development for pulp and paper and Food industry (GEMS)-(General Energy and Material balance Software – Idaho Research Foundation)

Initiation of School and University committees for Science and paper industry technologies promotion in Ohio, Tennessee, and North Carolina.

Fiber: Nylon, PET, Cotton and Rag inclusion in composites. Dyeing, Addition of anti-static, melamine wet strength to fibers.

Recycling of fibers and utilization in composites.

Product breakdown, purchasing resources, trouble shooting, testing and analysis confirming to methods approved by A2LA certifications.

Cellulose-Composite-Paper Technologies implemented:

• High ash papers and extensions of Titanium Oxide using nano retention technologies primarily in FR and décor paper base
• Use synthetic, ceramic and plant fibers to enhance cellulose fiber performance and lower cost dynamics in many situations for composite applications of paper (packaging, flooring, treated inserts)
• Use of dyes and pigments to enhance paper cosmetics and detailing for performance in special technical purposes, such as UV and high temperatures, in wet end, size press. Computerized color matching and database development.
• Coatings of all kinds – latexes, sizing (natural and synthetic of many kinds from dimers/esters to acrylic bases), abrasive, Lower COF, UV, moisture and grease barriers, conductive, anti-static, pseudo-glassine, silicone, PLA, parchmentizing looks - coatings, vulcanizing aids, microencapsulated for various uses (carbonless too), hygienic chemical addition, UV coated base, filler coated base for ink jet technologies-digital enhancements, release and watermark technologies
• Pulp screening, dynamics, recommendation of bleaching process, recycled pulp use
• Analytically correlate paper testing variables to TSO/TSI functionalities.
• Production of paper from basis weights ranging from 10 pounds to 250- pounds
• Expertise in working on paper machine with various configurations and headboxes/refiners/calenders on a global basis – India, China, Indonesia, Germany.
• Help negotiate/supply chain and technical support of marketing in specialty papers
• Re-engineer cost of materials, filler entrenchment, organo-metallic coated fillers, and, retention technologies.
• Develop wet strength for paper by inventing newer arts as resin alternatives
• Adjust machine paper dynamics of runnability using charge meter (streaming potential) in many machines – transfer of grades
• Grades: Décor, Backer, overlay, interleaving, industrial, release, container corrugating grades, crepe, gypsum, packaging, film and label stocks, filtration mediums, masking bases. Construction, FR specialties, Colored Tissues with recycled fibers, Greeting cards, packaging, release papers, vulcanization base grades, printing grades for gravure, flexographic, offset and digital on printing/tissue categories. Machine speeds from 200ft/minute to 6000ft/minute (tissue) to generate special grades. Global development of grades: UK, Germany, France, UAE, India, China, Indonesia, Canada in technical knowledge and implementation of project.
• Good knowledge of paper machine, fabric design/type and testing with drainage data and energy conservation
• Develop in-house cleaning chemical technologies.
• On hand experience with Gravure coating, flexographic coating technologies
• Converting technologies of paper in various fields to ensure technical superiority
• Recycle paper concepts and bleaching
• Conversion and security enhancements for paper identification
• Water treatment
• Colloidal ions control
• Dyes, Pigment technologies – color matching – continuous, ACS datacolor systems

Awards (Joint):

• EMTEC (Edison Materials Technology) for developing abrasive nature of paper for conversions and die damage during cutting
• NSF award for use of cellulose fibers as composites
• Awarded
• DAGSI (Dayton Area Graduate Student Institution) award for Ph.D. initiation - (in progress)

Educational Background:
MS Material science AND Chemistry
PhD– program; currently active
MS Chemical Engineering
B. Technology Chemical Engineering
BS Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics

Work Experience:
2009-current: Technical Manager, Shaw Flooring – treating, lamination- Hard Surfaces, IP, purchasing –supply chain - development
2005-2009: Technical Consultant (international Team) – India/China/UAE/USA/South America-Brazil – paper, laminates, minerals, specialty coatings, quality monitoring, outsourcing, plant set-up, personnel hiring
2006-2009: Director R&D, Confidential (Largest private label abrasive company in NA)
2000-2005: VP of Technology/Director Project Engineering Confidential (Number 1 Laminate company (HighPressureLaminate, Continuous Press Laminate, ThermoFusedMelamine) - Global)
1992-2000: Director Technology/ Product Development Manager Confidential /Sorg Paper/Bay West Paper: (Largest specialty paper company – NA)
1989-1992: Consultant, Confidential Midwest manufacturing companies - product testing and improvements – Credited Testing Laboratory
Specialized Training: Analytical: FTIR, NIR, UV/VIS, HPLC, DSC, TMA, DMA, TGA, X-ray diffraction, XPS, THz, EDS/SEM, and TEM; DOE, Statistical Design, Quality/safety systems and Lean Manufacturing.
Languages: FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG, SAS, Finite Element (ANSYS), Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes and JD Edwards- processing package, BPCs/BAAN (Purchasing Analysis Software), solid edge