Ivan Valdeiro Email & Phone Number

United Arab Emirates

Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates

Mumbai Area, India

Saif Free Zone Sharjah (United Arab Emirates)

Responsible for production, QA/QC, R&D & all laboratory related work. Reporting to the GM

Dubai Investment Park, Jebal Ali, Dubai

Worked for the following companies through acquisitions: FEB (UK), Sandoz (Switzerland), MBT (Switzerland), SKW (Trotsberg), Degussa (Germany), lastly Masterbuilder Solutions (BASF)Worked as a Product Development Chemist from 2009 till March 2014 for BASF Construction Chemicals L.L.C. an ISO 9002, 18001 company dealing in the manufacture of all construction chemicals.Duties include testing of new raw materials,Developing new tailor made colours for cementitious, EIFS & Epoxy products using data colour equipment, cost reduction of Existing products, developing new products as per customer requirements,analyzing competitors products, attending seminers (WACKER ACADEMY) training with various Raw materials vendors, liaising with sales & various departments, giving presentations, making batch cards on SAP, earlier in AXAPTA , obtaining tests certificate from external Labs, reducing tests costs by using in-house equipments witnessed by external labs, training lab personnel,liaising with Q.C. reporting to the Development Manager. Worked as a Site application specialist in the technical Services Department from 2007 till 2009.Duties include site visits, testing products on site, assisting sales personnel, advising product application, etc reporting to the Technical Services Manager. Worked as Raw materials & Q.C. chemist from 1997 till 2007, duties include testing of incoming Raw materials & bought In products according to appropriate QC tests methods & Specifications, recording of QC test results, deviations & Corrective actions, reporting non conformances to the Lab. Manager & taking corrective action, liaising with Logistics personnel regarding raw material deliveries to ensure no delays are caused to production, recording statistical Process control (SPC) data according to the SPC list & test Methods, preparation of certificates of Conformity for Finished goods, calibration of equipment, other Laboratory testing, activities.

QC Chemist

United Arab Emirates

In World Trade Center Interchange project (Dubai),Worked as a Lab Chemist & reporting to the Lab. Manger. Duties include are general QC testing of sands, aggregate, soil,concrete Supervising concrete pours, & other laboratory miscellaneous duties.

Kingdom Of Bahrain

Worked for Haji Hassan Group, Isola (Bahrain) in the Ready mix Concrete division, a joint venture Co. with KKKK of Denmark As a Laboratory Chemist, handling physical properties of Concrete, such as type, strength, mix design & various other Laboratory duties & compiling data. Thereafter transferred to The Shipping dept. independently handling customer Requirements for finished concrete to various sites, cash Collection, liaising with govt. & private companies for the supply Of RMC, personally handling a fleet truck mixers & concrete Pumps service maintenance of plant, making daily/monthly Reports of production/mixes & reporting to the plant Manager. Computer packages known are MS Office, SAP.

Geology/Earth Science, General

Geology/Earth Science, General

Activities and Societies: Debate Geology

High School, Finance, General

Activities and Societies: Debate Team