Conduct research and development on unique ceramic and composite structures to enhance performance and improve overall ballistic protection of lightweight body armor systems against a wide range of threats.Provide support to various engineering projects by executing destructive ballistic testing, evaluating armor performance, organizing and consolidating ballistic data for internal collaborative review, customer reports and proposals.Confers with management and engineering staff to implement engineering concepts, plans and recommendations to facilitate product development, manufacturing and processing, and improve existing quality assurance and quality control practices.

Create innovative, disruptive technologies for commercial implementation in high volume manufacturing environmentsDevelop high-performance polymeric systems to support semiconductor, display, solar, MEMs, other microelectronics manufacturing processes, including epoxy, acrylic and silicone resins, micro/nanocomposites.Manager of Daetec’s portfolio of high-performance products – including raw material planning and procurement, product testing and formulation, scale-up manufacturing, quality control, quality assurance, material application, customer testing, process optimization and integration. Head of sales and customer support for DaeCoat and DaeClean performance products, including high temperature water-soluble coatings for laser dicing and temporary protection applications, temporary adhesive bonding for thin wafer and device support and thick-film photoresist stripping and polymeric residue cleaning applications.Organizer of engineering data to help create technical documents such as MSDS, COA, technical application bulletins, customer reports for DaeCoat/DaeClean products, as well as data for company technology transfers, publications and patents. Present publications at conferences, and to various cross-functional groups of engineers, managers, buyers, and distributors from leading microelectronic companies in US, Europe, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore and China.

Design of experiments (DOE) daily to qualify, formulate and test raw polymeric materials, chemicals to produce the highest-performing products and novel technologies intended to improve a customer’s existing manufacturing practices.Regularly use, calibrate, and modify: optical microscopes, contact profilometer, FTIR, UV-Vis, nitrogen purged furnace, spin coater, robotic force gauge, surface tensiomat, UV oven, high precision scales, refractometer, and wafer bonder.Lead engineer for R&D of water-soluble temporary coatings and semiconductor-grade detergents for photoresist stripping in semiconductor and display applications in Taiwan.Interface with US and international clients and customers to accelerate process optimization, determine potential development partnerships, identify commercial opportunities