David Tarai Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Responsible for providing data analysis and other supporting business activities to assist Cornerstone’s ongoing operations, process optimization, digitization, and company growth programs. David will work closely with the president, business unit leaders, and other Cornerstone associates to understand, research, provide analysis, and information in support of prioritized business challenges and projects. This work will help support continuous improvement, strategic projects, and growth of the company.

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Responsible for sizing, selecting and troubleshooting control valves, regulators and other process equipment that has control over the flow and pressure within an industrial process. Work with customers to answer any questions and guide them to an appropriate solution to meet their process needs.

Indianapolis, Indiana

Responsible for trouble shooting and designing pumps & pump systems, piping systems, control valves, orifices, heatexchangers, air coolers, and pressure safety valves on small to medium sized projects ($250K - $4.5 million). Worked withthe plant/business to determine the best & most cost effective solution. Also participated in a 6 months start-up of a pilotfacility that produced a specialty chemical for the electronic materials business. This was a high risk, high margin projectthat was safely and successfully executed.

September 2008 - December 2008 VP of Marketing: Designed weekly fliers for meetings as well as managed an ad for the Business Pitch Competition.January 2009 - Present Due to being on Co-op assignment with Dow Chemical I help out with weekly fliers as well as provide input to current and future BBC projects.

Research with self-healing coatings including making formulations, testing coatings and analyzing results.

Teaching Assistant for Heat Transfer. Responsibilities included:- Holding office hours to assist students with theoretical questions along with homework questions.- Grading and correcting homework and exams

A Process Engineer in the Process Development and Modeling Optimization group. Specifically I was working on estimating pure component physical properties using group contribution methods.

Organized testing of pressure safety valves to minimize loss of production time. Learned about heat exchangers in an effort to find out why it was not working properly. Oversaw day to day activity of a chemical unit.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Education record