Andreas Schmidt, Phd Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, NC, US

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

• Manage cross-functional team communications to successfully execute corporate innovation strategy and communicate updates and achievements to senior leadership.
• Collaborate closely with internal teams and external vendors on a global scale, ranging from field personnel, to manufacturing sites, to leadership positions to achieve seamless on-time results.
• Drive digital innovations and successfully deliver as product manager on a variety of projects applying agile methodologies that include digitally enabling products and creating successful experiences based on customer.
• Responsible for connecting hardware, software, and data science teams to achieve all product goals
• Use data-driven insights to drive product features focused on customer interactions and engagements.
• Serve as the interface between all internal and external partners involved in digital innovation and connected packaging projects, including regular communications with marketing, sales, technical, and leadership teams.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Executed innovation projects as product lead using agile methodologies for digitally-enabled technologies, focused on proof of concept and minimal viable product development.
• Focused on state-of-the-art machine vision, sensor, and data analysis/data science applications.
• Responsible for hardware selection, testing, data analysis/management, and integration for new automation and machine-vision equipment.
• Successfully led three different projects from ideation to commercially viable product, including market research, feature design, VOC, resource acquisition/management, product design/specifications, budget management.
• Responsible for identifying the appropriate team resource needs and managing those resources to deliver on established key performance metrics.
• Consulted and worked on a number of other projects that made it to various stages of the innovation funnel.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Designed, managed, and executed on multiple exploratory projects.
• Drove computer vision and machine learning/AI application projects from ideation and proof of concept through development and commercialization as the technical lead.
• Learned to work in Python and C++ coding environments to obtain proof-of-principle results for new products.
• Led innovation efforts for digitally-enabled products by completing proof of principle work resulting in two new commercial product offerings.
• Created customer-focused solutions based on specific customer wants and needs and market research.
• Launched new research initiative around food processing sanitation processes.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Completed three 8-month R&D rotations throughout various research groups within Sealed Air
• Diversey Rotation 1: Worked in research groups focused on microbial control and floor care formulations resulting in one patent application.
• Diversey Rotation 2: Worked on new sensing technologies and techniques for dispensing and sanitation applications resulting in two new product offerings.
• Food Care Rotation: Worked on extending shelf-life formulations applications as well as sensing remaining shelf-life applications resulting in one patent application.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Conceptualized innovative ultramicroelectrode technology for highly sensitive, selective, and real-time detection of neurotransmitter release in behaving animals.
• Developed new in-vivo sensors made from multiwalled carbon nanotubes resulting in superior sensitivity and spatial resolution
• Characterized state-of-the-art analyte specific FSCV waveforms to enable the detection of new groups of neurotransmitters
• Developed and fabricated carbon-fiber sensors suited for single-cell measurements to allow more sensitive measurements using CV
• Initiated successful collaborations with other departments leading to several high impact publications
• Communicated research progress in multiple conferences and other various settings

• Fabricated ultramicroelectrodes
• Developed custom waveform applications
• Cared for animals in lab
• Calibrated electrodes after in vivo use

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Communicated and collaborated among different project stages to track job progress
• Reviewed HPLC/UPLC/MS data and recorded instrument calibration data
• Cataloged and filed completed data reports and conducted lab notebook reviews

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Reviewed GC, FTIR, and titration data
• Corrected and organized data reports
• Provided technical assistance in labs as needed
• Assisted with various QA/QC duties

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry

Advisor: Dr. Leslie Sombers Focus on the development of analytical sensors and techniques for real-time in vivo neurotransmitter detection.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemistry

Minor, Chemical Engineering