Ivan Ong Email & Phone Number

I've retired from full time employment. But I am always interested in helping out with scientific, innovation, and technology issues that are of true value, especially in technologies that reduce our ecological impact.

Huntersville, Nc, Us

Led global R&D group of 30 engineers, scientists, microbiologists and chemists, with direct report to the President of Microban. The R&D group is divided into six core functions: Ceramics Engineering, Materials Engineering, Liquids and Textiles, Microbiology, Analytical Chemistry, and Quality Assurance and Control. • Overall accountability for an average of 230 active projects with a technical completion success rate exceeding 85%. • Transformed R&D organization into a top-performing unit by accomplishing the following:− Reorganized R&D into a matrix structure that better handles cross-disciplinary projects with efficiency and thoroughness.− Introduced Stage Gate project management for innovation initiatives, enabling multiple projects to be executed and resourced within allocated timelines. − Recruited knowledge leaders from specialized research areas (e.g., medical biofilms, mycology, ceramics engineering, textiles engineering) from corporate and academic sources. These hires have ensured that each R&D core function is directed by experts in their fields.− Drove productivity increases while holding down R&D costs by project and resource planning, renegotiation of supply, maintenance and waste contracts, and judicious use of outside test labs and consultants. Three-year non-personnel expenses held steady despite a 40% increase in project and lab workload.• Visited customers, suppliers and prospects around the world (EU, US, China, Taiwan, Japan and Southeast Asia) to establish collaborative relationships, give technical presentations and perform production trials. • Prospected new technologies from university and cooperate sources. Performed technical due-diligence on new chemistries and technologies (including costs, production, and regulatory and IP assessments) for licensing and acquisition.• Created internal innovation teams that successfully produced new generational “step-change” technologies to ensure future competitiveness of company. .

Huntersville, Nc, Us

• Directed expansion of technical team from three- to six-person global product development engineering team specializing in all aspects of polymer engineering and processing. • Created computer-based formalized process for technical project tracking to account for all aspects of the engineering process. The process has became the benchmark standard for other engineering groups and has been adopted throughout the R&D organization. This has enabled accurate quantification of technical work for resource planning and management control purposes. • Responsible for over 100 active technical projects per year, with a technical success completion rate above 85%.• Evaluated and established two major overseas toll manufacturers/compounders (EU and China) resulting in shortened time-to-delivery and savings from elimination of shipping and importation tariffs.

Huntersville, Nc, Us

• Expanded in-house product development capability by capital equipment purchase (injection molder, QUV, TGA, etc.), new hires and cultivating a network of specialized consultants. This resulted in increased project load with shortened developmental timelines. • Provided technical and engineering support for all six international Microban offices (Europe, Thailand, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and USA).• Developed processing expertise in injection molding, profile and film extrusion, blow molding, reaction injection molding, and rotational molding in a wide range of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers. • Responsible for successful technical development of over 50 commercialized antimicrobial products (e.g. DAP kitchen and bath sealants, Teva sandals, Lucite acrylic luxury baths, California Innovations lunch containers, Fellowes computer accessories, etc.).• Carried out scientific studies to support safety and regulatory data needs by using both experimental and theoretical modeling.

Huntersville, Nc, Us

• Quadrupled antimicrobial masterbatch product line for polymers from three to over 12 within a year, allowing expansion of antimicrobial applications and sales.• Established a raw material qualification program, including transitioning the company to the use of prime polymer resins. This quality improvement resulted in drastically lowered production waste, customer rejections and complaints, and an auditable quality trail. • Enhanced manufacturing approach by researching and switching production to new toll compounders capable of using specialized compounding equipment to produce heat- and shear-sensitive polymer masterbatches.• Improved UV resistance and color stability of products by introducing highly effective and economical UV stabilizers and absorbers.• Authored quality and manufacturing documentation, including material safety data sheets, standard operating procedures and production batch sheets.• Accompanied sales and marketing teams to customer sites to deliver technical presentations.

• Investigated nucleation and growth of semiconducting nanoclusters within zeolitic and other ordered matrices.• Carried out nucleation of gold and silver nanoparticles in micellar media.• Participated in the research of polymer light emitting diodes for military display systems. Research was sponsored by the US Army Research Laboratories.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Mechanical Engineering And Materials Science

M.S., Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering

M.S., Materials Science And Engineering