Led all geographies, all businesses, and all functions through the entire government collaboration process including opportunity analysis, proposals, contract negotiation, execution, and closeout. Responded to U.S. Government Requests for Information. Ensured compliance systems were in place including the System for Award Management (SAM) registration. Managed contracts associated with executing business funded work at universities globally.• Developed and implemented a competitive analysis system to monitor the government contracting activity of Dow’s customers and competitors by combining data from government and commercial databases• Directed administrative aspects of approximately 35 projects at any given time allowing project teams to focus on technical development instead of compliance• Corrected inaccurate intellectual property reporting avoiding the requirement to transfer ownership to the U.S. government• Negotiated master research agreements with University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, and Texas A&M enabling individual projects to be started much quicker

Managed the intellectual property process to support business objectives including competitive analysis, patent portfolio review, invention evaluation, filing strategy, responding to patent challenges, and crafting business IP strategy.• Designed and led a streamlined decision process while broadening functional and geographic representation resulting in better product protection globally and a significant increase in first filings overseas A. Bruce Chaput Jr. abchaputjr@gmail.com Page Two• Created and provided business specific intellectual property training resulting in a record disclosure pace for every research group and every geography• Brought in 13 attorneys to help two business aligned attorneys accommodate the increase filing pace as the organization embraced robust patent protection• Enhanced the external release process breadth and depth including ensuring non-English language documents received business review preventing inadvertent intellectual property loss overseas

Led high throughput projects to evaluate additives in paint coatings screening a large portion of Dow’s existing product portfolio as potential paint additives. Using results from high throughput experiments, developed and implemented tools and work processes for mining and modeling data to provide formulation guidance and material development leads.

Led large projects for the Emulsion Polymers Business. These include projects related to manufacturing reliability, supply chain, and paper, paperboard, and carpet product development. As portfolio manager led evaluation and prioritization of new product development activities for the specialty latex segment.

Responsible for the North American ABS Plant Support• Lead the qualification of new products & raw materials at plants• Troubleshooting plant and lab reactors• Process research for product development projects

Dow Emulsion PolymersResponsibilities included leadership of six sigma, designed for six sigma, and product development projects.

Leading six sigma and designed for six sigma projects for research, manufacturing, and supply chain in the Emulsion Polymers business

Emulsion Polymers Process ResearchResponsibilities include...• Plant Support (Scale Up, start up, troubleshooting)• Process Research and Development (modeling, work process definition, unit operations development, process control programming)• Research Project Management