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Saint Paul, MN, US

Norwood, Massachusetts, United States

Best-in-class coating solutions!Medical Devices are becoming more complex. To meet these advancements in medical procedures you need a partner that can collaborate with you to meet your engineering requirements and quality standards. Applied Plastics has the experience and expertise to support you with skilled engineering support resources and superior.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed the U.S. based technology development team as part of the global R&D organizationDeveloped and supported ramp-up of an in-house lubricious coating technology platform for interventional guidewires and catheters that solved critical supply chain issues and more than doubled new product marginsFostered external partnerships and leveraged third party.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Directed longer-term research projects providing solutions to complex problems based on customer feedback by materials technology innovation, research, and developmentPromoted the use of the stage-gate process, even in early stages of developmentCreated value added technologies and ushered them from the lab to scaled up productionLead the development and.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Served as technical lead in defining project scopes and directing project milestones and objectives. Acted as an 'in-house' consultant for process improvement and troubleshooting. Contributed fundamental theory and experimental plans for determining material structure property relationships as related to high performance photochromic lens materials.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for Destructive and Non-Destructive materials characterization and failure analysis, product development and improvement, root-cause of failure analysis, and writing novel accelerated testing procedures.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Worked on modelling, yield improvement, fluid kinetics and dynamics, and materials characterization.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Lotus Leaf Coatings’ mission is to enable our customers to provide a better user experience by providing our high-quality functional nano-coatings! Lotus Leaf Coatings develops, manufactures and distributes proprietary functional nano coatings that include an Easy to Clean Hydrophilic coating, a Super-Hydrophilic (water-loving) coating and a.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

This was a short term contract to assist in the durability improvement of nanofunctional superhydrophobic coating materials. The project was very successful.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

This position was an opportunity to study under Dr. C. Jeffrey Brinker, who held joint positions as a UNM professor and a Fellow Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. In addition to rigorous studies in Sol-gel chemistry, Materials Science, Nanoscience, and surface engineering, job responsibilities included supporting multiple high-level funded.

Rio Rancho, New Mexico

Taught math, chemistry, and science for the engineering program

Gainesville, Florida Area

Conducted research in the fields of advanced optical materials, novel polymers, and contact lens materials

Gainesville, Florida Area

Prepared formulations for the production of contact lens materials; Clean material reaction vessels; Assisted with the processing and quality control of contact lens blanks.

Performed material property research and stability analysis for fishing lure coatings

Ph.D., Nanoscience And Microsystems

Concentrations: Surface Science, Complex Functional Materials, and Chemical Engineering

M.S., Chemical Engineering

Concentration: Materials Chemistry

B.S., Materials Science And Engineering

Polymers Specialization