Leading R&D and regulatory affairs to create solutions for the future.

Leading efforts to improve innovation execution.

Lead the analytical team in providing measurement support to early stage innovation, process and new product development, customer support and operations support. Manage 3rd party services to deliver results from assets not in our facility portfolio. Expand our measurement capabilities by expanding suite of capabilities both in-house and at innovation partners. Internal consultant to business units on oil field chemicals, new product development, and process development. Providing technology landscaping for new innovation, identifying and managing innovation partners and 3rd party labs, and mentoring staff.

Lead the development and support for Kraton’s products into the oil field chemicals market. Provided marketing and sales support to the commercial team. Lead product innovation from ideation through process development, test-runs and commercialization. Technical support to the New Business Development team, conducting technical marketing and positioning projects for early stage R&D.

Discover the value in chemistry.

Developing and leading a team for innovation of formulated polymer products in the upstream oil and gas market. Product development, basic research, applied research, IP strategy and development and technical communication in support of sales are all part of the day.

Develop innovative solutions to problems in Increased Oil Recovery. Manage day to day R&D operations, develop Intellectual Property, and manage academic collaborations.

Research and Development of surfactants, micro-emulsions and value added formulations for well stimulation and other upstream applications.

Exploring structure-property relationships of polymer-fullerene morphology and organic photovoltaic performance. Key techniques include oxidative nanolithography, atomic force microscopy, small angle X-ray scattering, and OPV device testing.

Developed structure-property relationship of surface energy and polymer-fullerene interfacial composition in organic photovoltaics.

First reported synthesis of polyisoprene containing block copolymers via RAFT controlled radical polymerization. Expert at chromatographic, spectroscopic, and thermal analysis of multi-block copolymers. Extensive experience with AFM and DLS analyses of nanoscopic objects and nanostructured thin films.

Synthesis and characterization of initiators, inimers, block copolymers, and intramolecularly cross linked nanoparticles. Fabricated nanoscale patterned surfaces by nanocontact-molding of polymer surfaces containing latent initiators, grafted polymers from imprinted surfaces using living free-radical polymerization techniques (Nitroxide Mediated and Atomic Radical Polymerization).