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Alameda, California

Leveraged product and market knowledge to innovate a photo-electrochemical screening test to down select sunlight durable electrochromic materials.Exercised effective project management and time management to optimize electrochromic nanocomposite materials using a DOE – ANOVA approach to obtain key components for a minimum viable product.Orchestrated a multidisciplinary team, while rapidly acquiring product and market knowledge, to develop and scale up a proprietary surface treatment process by 20 times larger treatment area and 10 times faster throughput.Applied critical thinking and time management to orchestrate the XPS and SIMS analysis of an electrode/electrolyte interface by an international, multidisciplinary team, to reveal a key product failure mode.

Faribault, Minnesota

Applied professional and legal awareness to collaborate with executives, attorneys, scientists, engineers, and production staff to develop and scale up the reactive sputter coating processes for high performance electrochromic coating materials, yielding more than 10 times improvement in yield and throughput, 4 patents and more than 20 derivative patents, and step change improvements in product quality and durability.Provided leadership in problem solving and conflict resolution to reformulate and optimize a sol-gel thin film coating process using high throughput and DOE – ANOVA approaches to boost product yield by more than 10 times.Brought client facing skills and project management savvy to the down selection of new transparent conductive layers on a new substrate material for electrochromic coatings, to meet specifications of a fortune 500 corporate client and thereby gain more than $1MM in corporate R&D funding.Brought project management and innovations in metrology to a multidisciplinary team that included production staff and staff scientists at NREL in Golden, CO, to yield 4 new nanocomposite electrochromic materials.Cultivated a skill set that included detailed investigation, communication, commercial acumen, teamwork and relationship building to achieve success in multiple technical projects: e.g. R&D projects, engineering projects, root cause analyses of field failures; and projects involving industrial design.Led a multidisciplinary team to discover and down select new sputter deposited electrochromic materials by high throughput, combinatorial and DOE-ANOVA approaches, and then run full scale coating trials on a pilot line to successfully complete a $550k NSF SBIR project.

Richland, Washington

Rapidly acquired knowledge of current industry trends, then developed ICP ion trap mass spectrometry for ultratrace metals analysis of solvents used in the semiconductor fabrication industry.

Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta

Gained FDA approval for an antimicrobial nanomaterial, then optimized and scaled up its sputter coating process, resulting in greater patient comfort and saved lives. Characterized the reactive sputter deposition process by plasma sampling mass spectrometry.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Analytical Chemistry

Hands on R&D in applied optics, spectroscopy, plasma diagnostics and analytical signal to noise characterization: to extend the practical.

B.Sc,, Specialization In Chemistry