Technical Director- Packaging, 04475

Industry: Packaging - Plastics - Cast and Blown film

Resides: Virginia

Salary: Open

Relocate: Yes

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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Dedicated technical professional with strong skills in the following areas:

.       NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
.       DESIGNING/IMPROVING BUSINESS SYSTEMS
.       PROBLEM SOLVING
.       DEVELOPING PRODUCT TEST METHODS
.       SIX SIGMA PROJECT MANAGEMENT
.       FORMING CUSTOMER TECHNICAL RELATIONSHIPS
.       STAFF MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING
.       COMMUNICATING EASILY ACROSS FUNCTIONS AND LEVELS

 EXPERIENCE
1999-2002: Technical Director, (Packaging Company) Corporation
Internal consultant for development groups concerning food packaging, personal care and industrial film formulations.  Developed unique bumper faschia film.  Used Six Sigma, DOE and Kepner-Tregoe methods to:
.       Save six million lbs./year of sales by leading technical/manufacturing/sales team to reformulate a discoloring film.
.       Reduce major customer claim from three million to $300,000. 
.       Revise and validate a faulty measurement system that endangered 11 million lbs of new business.
Directed staff of 12 serving 23 sites.  Staff investigated customer complaints, solved product failure and contamination issues, developed new tests, and analyzed competitive films. 

1998-1999: Technical Services Manager, (Same Packaging- Company)
Consolidated Edison, CT, Deerfield and Performance Films analytical labs using Six Sigma method.  Reduced response time for lab results 25 percent while processing 50 percent more requests.  Guided developing new masking product lines for customer.  Managed cast film pilot line.  Introduced thermal microscopy to corporate lab.

1997-1998: Development Group Leader, Edison Plastics
Led development group in penetrating the masking and food packaging markets.  Developed film providing Edison's customer with a low-cost, high performance entry into the auto masking market.  Supervised developing wide-seal-range packaging films.  Recognized as one of GE's 1998 Top Ten Six Sigma Black Belt Vendors for identifying a product-line cost saving opportunity. 

1995-1997:  Senior Development Engineer, Edison Plastics
Developed and commercialized surface-printed co-extruded produce film that gained Edison Plastics a two million pound/year entry position into the food packaging market.  Introduced precision heat seal testing.

1993, 1995:  Adjunct Instructor, College of William and Mary
Taught and supervised evening organic laboratory sections.

1993-1995:  Development Engineer, Edison Plastics
Optimzed additive system for metallocene polyethylene sealants using DOE.  Guided reformulation of opaque film additives to reduce internal scrap.  Deformulated competitive products for reverse engineering.  Introduced chromatography to lab.


1992:  Lab Manager, Marine Chemist Service, Inc.
Supervised environmental/petroleum analytical lab.  Expanded lab's capabilities by adding five new EPA methods.  Trained chemists.  Documented Standard Operating Procedures and 90% of the laboratory's Quality Assurance Manual. 

1987 - 1991:  R&D Chemist, BASF Structural Materials
Led project to transfer an acrylic polymerization process from lab scale to production scale.  Developed and documented the analytical methods for raw materials, effluents and product. Chose and set up analytical instruments for the quality assurance lab.  Trained and supervised the pilot plant and lab technicians.  Developed Statistical Process Control charts.  Finalist for BASF Quality Award for improving polymer quality while cutting installation costs $600,000. 
 
1985 - 1986:  Research Chemist, Allied-Signal Engineered Materials, Central Research
Co-invented and patented a high-contrast deep UV photoresist for printed circuits.  Designed and synthesized polymers with electro-optical responses.  Developed analytical techniques for the optical characterization of polymers. 

EDUCATION
M.B.A. with Marketing emphasis, College of William and Mary
M.S. Organic Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
B.S. Chemistry, Santa Clara University (Cum Laude, National Merit Scholar)

PROFESSIONAL COURSES
Multivac Thermoforming Course
Roll Process Variability and Quality Seminar
Troubleshooting the Extrusion Process
GE Six Sigma Black Belt Course
Hayssen Vertical Form Fill and Seal Course
DuPont's Strategy of Experimentation (Factorial Design of Experiment)
DuPont's Experimentation for Robust Product Design with Design Expert®

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Polymer and additive properties, polymer degradation, cast and blown film processes, lab methods including: DSC, UV-Vis, FT-IR (ATR, Microscopic FT-IR, Quantitative programs for Quality Control), Gas and Supercritical Fluid Chromatography, Microscopy (optical and thermal), physical test methods including heat sealing

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