Leader of the Grease Technology and Product Data Analytics Teams within Global Technology Responsible for the product development and technology support for all North American greases and Global specialty grease products. Responsible for technical program direction, new product commercialization, and technology development to enhance and ensure product differentiation.Lead and prioritize the technology program supporting all product lines in Global Technology to provide product application mapping, product information sheet management and product content management.Responsible for developing additional capabilities in market opportunity sizing and the development of vehicle data integration in support of the product strategy teams to enable more agile decision making based on up-to-date information.

Led the formulation, commercialization, and technology support of Valvoline Heavy Duty Engine Oils and Industrial Fluids including Valvoline Premium Blue®, Valvoline Premium Blue® One Solution Gen2, Valvoline All-Terrain, Valvoline All-Fleet Heavy Duty and private label diesel engine oilsDirectly responsible for Heavy Duty product formulation in North America and Latin AmericaAdvised on Heavy Duty product design globally as well as product approval and registration support for Europe, Australia, MEA, India, China and Southeast Asia Designed and delivered samples of experimental and customized Heavy Duty lubricants for OEM and industrial customers for laboratory testing, field trials, and fleet testsIndustry Representative for Valvoline on API Diesel Engine Oil Advisory Panel and New Category Evaluation TeamIndustry representative for Valvoline at ASTM Diesel engine oil and Industrial fluid meetingsSupervising formulator for Valvoline Hydraulic and Industrial Gear oilsResponsible for technical support to marketing and sales for Heavy Duty and Industrial product lines including: customer presentations, product performance claims, specification approvals and registrations, product label review and approval, and writing product information sheetsProduct Technology lead for digital tools to deliver Passenger Car and Heavy Duty product recommendations to customers through web applications as well as customer point of sale systems

Facility Manager of the Valvoline New Product Development Laboratory with 6 direct reports including research, analytical, and product development laboratories as well as the testing garage and pilot scale blending facilities producing 11,000 gal/year in customized productsExecuted a $1 million renovation and expansion of the laboratory facilitiesRevised the facility EH&S policies and practices in support of the Valvoline initial public offeringEnsured and improved compliance with regulations including significant updates to the facility Chemical Hygiene Plan, internal facility inspections, and employee safety trainingDepartment of Transportation Hazardous Materials and IATA Dangerous Goods Shipment certifiedRCRA Hazardous waste designated signatoryPoint of contact for facility audits and inspections including KYDEP inspections and ISO 9001 auditingResponsible for the development and implementation of process technology improvements for the Valvoline manufacturing facilities including the management of recycle streams and waste minimizationResponsible for the formulation, commercialization, and technology support of Valvoline™ Premium Blue™ Heavy Duty motor oilsReformulated Valvoline™ Premium Blue™ products for API CK-4 and FA-4 performance categories

Leader of the chemists and engineers in the Valvoline Strategic Research group responsible for the development of novel drive-line lubricants and product development support technologies including tribological and materials compatibility studies on lubricant additivesDirecting numerical modeling efforts in support of performance predictions and formulation optimizationResponsible for the development and implementation of process technology improvements for the Valvoline manufacturing facilities

Responsible for the development and implementation of process technology improvements for the Ashland Consumer Markets manufacturing facilitiesEvaluated feasibility and value of external process technologies and joint venture development activities in bio-based and re-refined lubricant base stocksResponsible for the formulation, commercialization, and technology support of Valvoline SynPower® Full Synthetic motor oils

Site Technology Leader for the manufacturing technology group of 15 engineers supporting 4 facilities producing DuPont™ Oxone®, Hydrogen Cyanide, Solid Cyanides, and Aminonitriles with combined annual sales of over $370 million/yrLed capacity release efforts that increased solid cyanide production rates by 12%, yielding over $13.3 million/yr of increased pre-tax operating incomeResponsible for management of additional cost and capacity improvement programs with benefits of more than $9.6 million/yr in additional pre-tax operating incomeResponsible for management of basic data preparation and project prioritization processes for the site annual capital program totaling more than $17 million/yr in capital projectsApproved technology manuals, process hazard analyses, and management of change documentation for OSHA designated highly hazardous chemical processesChemical Weapons Convention point of contact: Responsible for all declarations related to the production of scheduled compounds to the Department of Commerce

Led the team developing the 2nd generation process for DuPont™ Cerenol® improving capacity by 40% and cost of manufacture by 17% supporting $180,000 in salesAwarded 3 patents for the processes and preparation of DuPont™ Cerenol®Designed and operated a lab-scale continuous reactor system for the production of DuPont™ Cerenol®Developed fundamental kinetic and mass transfer models for DuPont™ Cerenol® polymerization.Designed soil mobility and tissue residue studies for rapid screening of adjuvants to adapt DuPont™ Dermacor® seed treatment formulations for corn and canolaDesigned and executed studies to optimize fire retardant performance for a commercial carpet offering of DuPont™ Sorona® increasing annual polymer sales by more than $1.16 million/yrCreated Aspen Plus® process models to design novel absorption cooling systemsMeasured and modeled vapor-liquid equilibrium of novel ionic liquid solutions

Graduate Research Assistant and Graduate Teaching Assistant studying the use of microfabrication techniques to create microreactors for use in rapid optimization of multiple chemistries

MIT Practice School Field Stations for MS, Chemical Engineering Practice.

MIT Practice School Field Stations for MS, Chemical Engineering Practice.