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Chris developed VaporPulse's ALD Coating, Research and Development Services Program that has served over 100 clients from the semiconductor, food packaging, defense and medical devices industries. Customers include government agencies, Fortune 25 companies, small and startup stage businesses, and university researchers. As President of VaporPulse, Chris is responsible for business development, organizing experimental activities and developing novel solutions on demand at the customers request to ensure the desired result is achieved from the VaporPulse coating application. VaporPulse Background: Born out of a passion for thin film coating and process technology, VaporPulse was founded on ALD as a core technology. Our first innovation using ALD was development of a new coating to protect filtration media used by the US Army. Since founding we have gone on to develop new materials and processes using ALD technology as the foundation. A few example innovations include developing new barrier coatings to encapsulate polymers from harsh industrial chemicals, discovering a nanocatalyst for cleaning gaseous air streams of VOC’s, and creation of a new process to prevent oxygen and water transfer in packaging materials and optical windows. Our most recent innovation was the development of a custom coating solution using high temperature ALD nitride coatings to protect composite parts against hot corrosion. VaporPulse's Mission is to provide innovative ALD Coating and R&D Services by using our expertise in ALD to help clients discover new atomic-scale solutions to create new functional materials, surfaces, structures and devices.For more information about VaporPulse Technologies, please contact us at 1-888-955-7550 or info@vapor-pulse.com

As Senior Researcher provided program oversight on 7 U.S. Army and Navy projects; lowered laboratory maintenance and operation costs e.g. lowered operation costs on mechanical pumps by implementing new equipment for trapping unreacted precursors; initiated new safety procedures including hazardous waste management and precursor exchange; developed SOPs for working with vapor deposition reactors, authored 12 research proposals to government and industrial sponsors for new programs (8 funded).Also served as laboratory manager, responsible for maintaining a laboratory environment to ensure excellence and compliance in research and learning; oversight of up to 20 postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and undergraduate researchers; responsible for training, maintenance and oversight of 12 vapor phase deposition reactors; developed and implemented laboratory SOPs, safety procedures and equipment maintenance schedule.Mentored PhD and undergraduate students in group, responsible for designing experiments, directing independent research projects and disseminating results to program sponsors.Author of technical documents and very experienced presenting and communicating technically challenging concepts to non-technical audiences. Provided program management over Government funded research projects to develop advanced materials for the warfighter including the following projects: 1. "Metal Oxide Coatings for Enhanced Stab Protection - Soldier Blast and Ballistics Program",2. "Vapor Phase Processing of Nanoscale Coatings on Military Fabrics",3. "Metal Oxide Coatings for Multifunctional Materials"4. U.S. Army and DTRA"Absorptive and Reactive Surfaces Enabled by Atomic Layer Deposition",5. Department of Energy "High Gradient Accelerator Cavities Using Atomic Layer Deposition",6. U.S. Navy "Innovative Materials for Microwave Tube Applications",

Awarded Chancellors Innovation Fund for work related to protecting textile and polymer materials from sunlight, http://www.ncsu.edu/features/2011/07/real-research-real-results/ SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:Junjie Zhao, Mark D. Losego, Paul P. Lemaire, Philip S. Williams, Bo Gong, Sarah E. Atanasov, Trent Blevins, Christoher J. Oldham, Howard J. Walls, Sarah D. Shepherd, Gregory W. Peterson, Gregory N. Parsons “Enhanced Growth of Metal Organic Frameworks on Polymer Fiber Mats Using Atomic Layer Deposition”, Advanced Materials Interfaces, doi: 10.1002/admi.201400040 (2014).Sarah E. Atanasov, Christopher J. Oldham, Kyle A Slusarski, Joshua Taggart-Scarff, Shalli A. Sherman, Kris J. Senecal, Shaun F. Filacomo, Quinn P. McAllister, Eric D. Wetzel, Gregory N. Parsons “Improved Cut-Resistance of Kevlar® using Controlled Interface Reactions during Atomic Layer Deposition of Ultrathin (<50Å) Inorganic Coatings”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2 (41), DOI: 10.1039/c4ta03662j (2014).Berc Kalanyan, Mark D. Losego, Christopher J. Oldham, Gregory N. Parsons “Low Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition of Tungsten using Tungsten Hexafluoride and Highly-diluted Silane in Argon”, CVD, 19 (4-6), 161-166 (2013).Christina K. Devine, Christopher J. Oldham, Jesse S. Jur, Bo Gong, and Gregory N. Parsons “Fiber Encapsulation for Improved Laboratory Handling and Uniform Nanocoating of Milligram Quantities of Carbon Nanotubes by Atomic Layer Deposition” Langmuir Vol 27, Issue 23, pp. 14497-14507.Christopher J. Oldham, Bo Gong, Joseph C. Spagnola, Jesse S. Jur, Kris J. Senecal, Thomas A. Godfrey and Gregory N. Parsons “Encapsulation and Chemical Resistance of Electrospun Nylon Nanofibers Coated Using Integrated Atomic and Molecular Layer Deposition” Journal of the Electrochemical Society 158 (9) D549-D556 (2011).

Applied Research and Development Experience* Co-developed new process for de-painting composite and metal surfaces. Research resulted in US patent application, filed in 2006.* Implemented new pulsed plasma process for suppressing gas phase growth and gas phase depletion in atmospheric pressure plasma CVD reactor.* Investigated the deposition of amorphous silicon carbide using pulsed PECVD process. * Examined novel atmospheric plasma enhancement for conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol. Discovered process for producing a 50% enhancement in fermentable sugar production.* Co-authored patent application on “Processing Cellulose Material Utilizing Atmospheric-Pressure Plasma”. No prior art found, patent application filed in 2008.* Collaborated on new process for production of nitric acid, ammonia, and other basic chemicals using a novel hybrid atmospheric plasma source. Patent application filed in 2009.* Authored or co-authored proposals various government agencies including SBIR/STTR program.

In this role Chris assists with setting company goals, provides planning support for long term initiatives to support company growth.