* * Directed the Surface Modification Team in radiation grafting processes Gamma and Electron beam of fluorinated and sulfone membranes. The processes generate in excess of $50MM in filter sales for several lines of businesses.* * Utilized reactive monomers to tailor the membrane’s chemical functionality, targeting the specific application. Membranes were rendered with a myriad of properties, including: hydrophilicity, hydrophobicity, positive and negative zeta potential, cation and anion… Show more * * Directed the Surface Modification Team in radiation grafting processes Gamma and Electron beam of fluorinated and sulfone membranes. The processes generate in excess of $50MM in filter sales for several lines of businesses.* * Utilized reactive monomers to tailor the membrane’s chemical functionality, targeting the specific application. Membranes were rendered with a myriad of properties, including: hydrophilicity, hydrophobicity, positive and negative zeta potential, cation and anion exchange capacities.* * Supervised a team of chemists and engineers in the development and scale up of Hot Filament Chemical Vapor Deposition technology. Process provides a conformal, defect-free, thin film coating of a fluoropolymer. Once in manufacturing phase, process is expected to generate in excess of $10MM. * * Acted as lead collaborator with external organizations in joint development and transfer of chemical vapor deposition technologies to Pall Corp. Examples:- - Coordinated with the Chemical Engineering department at MIT, a two year program for the joint development of composite nanofiltration thin films. - - Led the transfer of a PTFE thin film coating technology. Scaled up and transformed process to fit the manufacturing of PTFE membranes.* * Developed and scaled up low-pressure gas and vapor plasma polymerization, roll-to-roll processes, targeting the molecular surface tailoring of porous and nonwoven webs. * * Developed variable duty cycle pulsed plasma polymerization processes for carboxylation, amination and hydroxylation. Oxyfluorination process generates $2MM in sales. Show less

- -Managed a group of chemists. - -In charged with the development of membranes. - -Developed casting processes for polyvinyledene difluoride and polyether sulfone membranes. - -Directed the molecular tailoring program of materials for industrial and biomedical application utilizing radiation grafting technologies.

- -Supervised a group of chemists. - -Assigned daily responsibilities, reviewed progress, evaluated performance and managed Lab budget. Directed R/D of new materials / and the transfer of new technologies from R/D to manufacturing. - -Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on surface modification by Ebeam and Gamma radiation, and UV by plasma polymerization.

- -Developed casting parameters for microporous polymeric membranes. - -Characterized plastic components and thermosetting resins. - -Conducted laboratory synthesis of oligomeric compounds, and developed the methodologies using IR, UV, GC, DSC, and HPLC to evaluate them.