Development Engineer - Plastics/Packaging
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Industry: Packaging

Resides: Virginia

Salary: Open

Relocate: Yes

On the Market:

OBJECTIVE:
Pursue a technical position that requires creative thinking, rigorous problem solving, and close teamwork with customers, manufacturing and sales.

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

.       NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
.       DEVELOPING PRODUCT TEST METHODS
.       PROBLEM SOLVING
.       DETERMINING TRUE APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
.       SIX SIGMA PROJECT MANAGEMENT
.       COMMUNICATING EASILY ACROSS FUNCTIONS AND LEVELS
.       DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS  

EXPERIENCE
1999-June 2002: Technical/Lab Director, (Packaging Company - Acquired again)
Directed corporate R&D lab in investigating product failures, deformulating competitive films, testing experimental films and QA testing for 23 sites.  Led development of new masking films.  Personally formulated several unique masking films.  Served as corporate consultant for polymer and additive properties.  Served as technical liaison between vendors, development engineers and manufacturing.  Recommended polymer and additive improvements for problem films.  Set up and interpreted DOEs for development engineers. 

Used Six Sigma and Kepner-Tregoe methods to:
.       Reduce major customer claim from three million to $300,000 by helping the customer identify problems in their process causing the defects
.       Save six million lbs./year of sales by leading technical/manufacturing/sales team to use alternate raw materials and change shipping and storage methods
.       Revise and validate a faulty measurement system that endangered 11 million lbs of new business.
.       Facilitate brainstorming meetings between development engineers and customers to identify the correct product performance requirements.

1998-1999: Corporate Analytical Lab Manager, (Same Packaging Company-)
Consolidated (NAME) Plastics, CT Films, Deerfield Films and Performance Films analytical labs to Newport News using Six Sigma methods.  Trained lab staff to deformulate food packaging films and solve problems using the Kepner-Tregoe approach.  Reduced response time for lab results 25 percent.  Added heat seal testing, gas chromatography, and thermal microscopy capabilities.  Coached new development engineers. 

1993-1998: Development Engineer - Group Leader (Same Packaging Company - Acquired)
Led development group to penetrate the industrial products and food packaging markets.  Developed and commercialized fresh-lettuce packaging film that gained (NAME) Plastics a two million pound/year entry position into the food packaging market.  Developed film providing Edison's customer with a low-cost, high profit-margin, high performance entry into the auto masking market.  Used Design of Experiment extensively to develop formulations and processes.  Recognized as one of GE's 1998 Top Ten Six Sigma Black Belt Vendors for identifying a product-line cost saving opportunity. 

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

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

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Film formulation, 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

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