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Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

Director of Engineering in design, development, and manufacturability of leading quality High power, Fast Charge, Long Life Lithium Ion Batteries. Development of Best-In-Class lithium batteries for the EV and related markets providing the best performance in power and rechargeability. Utilizing and optimizing state-of-the art manufacturing processes for design-for-manufacturability and lean productivity.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Technical Manager of Design for Manufacturing Automation & Controls Group. Established new top engineering group of Automation/Controls Engineers within EaglePicher, training ME's, EE's, & Computer Scientists. Led and mentored Lean project teams while leading overall manufacturing excellence tool-up through company. New Lean Six-Sigma operations were setup with advanced instrumentation, control systems and process automation throughout company. Established enterprise IT manufacturing/production MES system for automated real time data acquisition, SQL historian storage, ERP/MOM connectivity, and automated analysis and reporting driving productivity and sustaining tools for Lean Six Sigma Continuous Improvement.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Chemical Engineering Advanced Technical Specialist / Six-Sigma Change Agent reporting to VP Engineering. Function as principle change agent modernizing multiple plants for modern industrial automation and implemented advanced chemical, engineering, and computer based process controls. Role encompassed Process Engineering Manager to Automation and Controls Engineering Manager. Implementing enterprised based Automation, Controls, and intelligent small lot "e-manufacturing tools". Establishing world class company Lean/Six-Sigma Quality Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement System.

Rochester, New York, Us

Eastman Kodak worldwide Manufacturing Quality Assurance Organization (MQAO) - Senior R&D chemist/chemical engineer - Six Sigma Black Belt. Principle MQAO liaison leading highest VP priority projects from R&D to Manufacturing and Manufacturing Technology Developmental Laboratories. Worked with R&D synthetic chemical laboratory and electrochemical R&D solving age old photocoupler stability problem. Worked with manufacturing process analytical and industrial analytical characterization labs solving world-wide multi-million dollar waste problems with organic couplers in aqueous melts and emulsions. Designed fast Ion Chromatographic process check to accredit batches of good coupler melts and emulsions prior to scale up and full emulsion batch production. Established real-time melt kettle electrochemical monitoring to provide real-time verification of process chemical additions, concentrations, and reactions to assure reproducible high quality photographic emulsion coatings. Drove automated process analytical measurements and control methods for world-wide emulsion manufacturing process cleaning. Eliminated complex automated mechanical control of cleaning systems eliminating multi-million dollar waste events. VP chosen lead to solve multiple long term non-aqueous micro-emulsion process, coating, formulation, and film characterization needs. Formed my "A-Team" and four sub-teams and joined the principle teams in R&D and manufacturing groups to design experiments to uncovered root cause of problems. A pilot lab for preparation of emulsions was setup and DOE was carried out together with complete analytical and photo characterization until an intimate analytical chemical understanding was achieved. A new formulation was designed with new more robust micro-emulsion allowing 22 film formulations to be reduced to 1. This team coupled together with the parent R&D group was recognized by VP's as best high performance R&D to manufacturing team in Kodak history.

Rochester, New York, Us

R&D Scientist in Eastman Kodak's Central Research Chemical Physics and Molecular Electronics Laboratories. EKC's top chemical and electronics science team employing molecular design, synthesis, and advanced characterization of novel organic and organometallic chemicals for photoconductors, dark conductors, and superconductor thin film composites. Invented methods for 3D organic self-assembly/molecular aggregation within coatable polymer electrodes for eletrophotographic electron and hole charge transport layers and novel medical sensors. Formulated advanced ultra-thin film composites and characterized advanced solid state electronic properties for use in thin composite coatings for flexible conductors, photoconductors/receptors, batteries, and other photoelectric devices. Designed and built custom ultrasensitive low temperature electronics test apparatus for measurement of single crystal organic dark/super conductors. Designed electronics interface and programmed minicomputer programs for automation and control of test station with real time data acquisition and post run analysis. Developed ultrasensitive HPLC-Electrochemical and Photo-electrochemical flow cells for characterization of organic materials. Designed custom electrodes, electrochemical cells, ESR coulometric electrochemical cells for advanced characterization of oxidized and reduced transient states of novel organic and organometallic materials. Performed analytical characterization, formulation, and manufacturing methods for robust photoconductor photoreceptors used in many modern photocopiers and laser printers. Designed and characterized pigments and composite specialized multifunctional polymer-pigment compositions for leading ink jet and laser color printing. Utilized advance computer programming and MOPAC (molecular orbital calculation methods) for predicting optimum electronic charge transfer characteristics. Automated fast scan non-aqueous solution electrochemical characterization.

Master Of Science (Ms), Electrochemistry

Master Blackbelt - Lean Six-Sigma, Advanced Lean Six Sigma Mbb Cert. Program