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Exton, Pa, Us

Greater Philadelphia

Project Management: Oversaw all aspects of project management, including proposal development, staffing, budgetary and financial planning, and team communication. Successfully managed more than 130 projects (typically 15-25 simultaneously) across regional offices and various industries, ensuring 100% adherence to budget, scope, quality, and schedule.Team Leadership: Built and led project teams, ensuring effective communication and collaboration to meet contract requirements, deliver high-quality results, and mentoring rising leaders within the company to practice company values. Large Account Management/Development: Managed and developed a key consumer product account, implementing strategic account plans resulting in contracts worth over $1 million annually.Client Partnering: Served as the main point of contact for clients, fostering strong external relationships and ensuring project success. Led projects that exceeded client expectations, resulting in over $1 million in repeat business and client growth. Partnered with clients to understand their needs, and developed and executed effective permitting, regulatory compliance, and regulatory strategies, resulting in a positive impact on client capital project planning, ongoing environmental compliance, and strategy development.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Team Management: Supervised a gypsum R&D analytical testing group comprised of 2 chemical engineers. Directed project planning and prioritization, conducted onboarding safety and equipment training, and managed chemical hygiene and waste disposal practices on site.Project Leadership: Managed projects within 2 key business drivers focused on silicone fluids/emulsions and enhancing product emissions and moisture resistance performance in gypsum wallboards and wall coating systems.Cross-functional Collaboration: Interacted with customers, marketing, and sales teams to support product stewardship and development, from concept to commercialization.Process Improvement/Capability Development: Planned and executed scale-up trials, developed and installed new sensors in the plant, and led root cause analysis investigations of production issues.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Team Leadership: Managed and mentored a team of 3 engineers and chemists. Served as training coordinator on the local leadership team.Analytical Investigations: Conducted over 40 analytical investigations on thermoset binders, low-toxicity spray epoxy, glass formulation, and fiberglass systems to support new product development projects.Innovation: Led the development of 15 new analytical testing applications and the acquisition and implementation of 9 new analytical testing capabilities.

Greater Denver Area

System Implementation: Managed the design and implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX manufacturing and quality systems, including resource deployment, training execution, follow-up development, and system support.Quality Assurance: Led over 250 raw material or product non-conformance investigations and resulting CAPA plans. Executed over 30 on-site manufacturing trials and audits, and published the company’s first quality manual.Process Efficiency: Coordinated improvement projects focused on process efficiency and cost reduction in manufacturing facilities and supporting quality laboratories.Data Analysis: Used statistical data analysis and implemented data management practices to maintain production control, develop specifications, and support quality initiatives at manufacturing plants and with suppliers.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Team Supervision: Supervised a team of analytical chemists to conduct timely and accurate analysis to characterize new products and support product development and commercialization.Method Development: Developed over 50 analytical test methods to support product development, quality control, and forensic analysis. Collaborated with the University of Delaware to develop material survey techniques for composition and structural analysis.Product Support: Supported NPD, product launch, and process optimization for a wide range of specialty chemical products.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Researched the structural and chemical properties of composite materials (fiber-epoxy) by various manufacturing methods in response to thermal exposure, physical load, and environmental stress; prepared lab-scale resin-fiber composite samples by various methods for performance and structural testing; conducted failure testing using specialized sensors and statistical analysis of the resulting data to generate performance characteristic models of composite systems.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Practiced aseptic technique, bacterial plasmid cloning, and cell harvesting to synthesize membrane-bound enzyme hOSC, verified gene cloning process through gel electrophoresis, qPCR techniques, and genetic sequencing; purified enzyme for structural elucidation by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy.

University Of Delaware

Led one-on-one and groups sessions to students to assist with visualization of topics and preparation for exams as a department-approved tutor in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry courses at UD; created a 'Synthesis Game' as a study aid, using the palate of mechanisms covered in 300-level Organic Chemistry.