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Summary
This Lean Manufacturing & QC Consultant is a results-oriented, hands-on chemist with exceptional research and analytical skills in the rubber industry. Veritable track record for the successful completion of projects through coordination within all levels of management. He has 10+ years working experience with custom engineered rubber components and polymer formulations. His expertise includes formulations, compounding, molding, and QC/QA testing of products. This Lean Manufacturing & QC Consultant has the last 8 years working experience in asphalt emulsion processing, selection and manufacturing. He has working knowledge and experience with asphalt emulsion chemistry, coatings and applications
Highlights
- Material Science (Polymer Chemistry, Rubber Compounding and Processing – FKM, FEPM, EPDM, NBR, FVMQ, AEM)
- Formulation Improvement
- Management ( Technical Sales and Market Development, Project Management, Team Management)
- R&D of new raw materials
- Product enhancements
- Developing testing protocols
- Lean Strategies / Six Sigma
Relevant Accomplishments
- Maintained and continuously improved several formulations and maintained inventory of customer formulations.
- Analyzed, reviewed and revised formulations to improve productivity and reduce cost through a rigorous VAVE analysis with a focus on material cost adjustment using alternative raw materials with a targeted cost savings of $65K/year.
- Provide technical assistance to sales team, performed true root cause analysis to assist with customer complaints, and served in an advisory capacity as technical consult for new applications
- Managed research and development of new raw materials within the framework of activities related to procurement, manufacturing and distribution of product streams
- Technical direction and execution of non-standard testing methods to predict and correlate product life-cycle and influence coatings life-cycle
- Setup, adjusted and maintained operator logs to meet customer on-time leads and maintained inventory for unanticipated product demands
- Performed administrative duties including working closely with Site Operations and Lab Manager on capital budgets, procurement, and projects management
- Initiated new development projects according to commercial objectives in the rubber and tire business unit.
- Developed and maintained close communication with Market Development and to proactively support development efforts.
- Support current product lines by establishing new application spaces and end-use by defining and exploiting synergies across product lines.
- Responsible for all technical aspects; commercial and experimental products including maintaining relationships with key customers and co-suppliers.
- Participated in market-specific trade shows, conferences including presentation of technical papers.
- Developed testing protocols to study rubber-textile reinforcement, produced data set and demonstrated utility of technology based on market research.
- Conducted research and experimentation for developing peroxide cured rubber systems leading to new strategies for rubber curing.
- Provided testing services and detailed reports on viscoelastic behavior of semi-crystalline polymers and polymer blends.
- Researched, designed and manufactured nano-materials used to reinforce polyesters leading to successful product patent
- Developed and maintained FTIR library for tracking in-house batches. Conducted dynamic viscoelastic property research on products (EPDM, NBR, FKM, etc.) under development to improve mechanical properties using Dynamic Mechanical Rheologic Testing (DMRT).
- Performed physical testing (Tensile strength, elongation, compression set, explosive decompression, etc.) and SPC in the lab to ensure tight tolerance on all shipped product
Roles
- Chemist II
- Project Manager
- Senior Chemist, Applications
- Applications Development Chemist
- Consultant Chemist
- Chemist
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