Jennifer Bernier Email & Phone Number

Northwood, NH, US

Rochester, NH

• Work closely with the commercial sales Team to develop growth platforms utilizing VOC and VOM interviews/data.
• Gather and organize input from the VOM and VOC to suggest technologies and NBD opportunities.
• Generate product /technology platform literature to assist sales team and commercial communication.
• Work closely with cross functional teams in operations, R&D, applications engineering, sales, marketing and finance to assist with technology/product transfer.
• Assist and document machine trial activity, or equipment testing.
• Lead projects/programs associated with growth initiatives.

Rochester, NH

• Responsible for staff assignment and task planning
• Develop and plan the disposition of new products
• Oversee budget allocated to the Development Department
• Expand industry expertise by attending trade shows, seminars, and conferences
• Create and update specification information for products and purchased and manufactured
• Oversee production trials and zero batches

Rochester, New Hampshire

• Work with R&D and Marketing to develop products to meet customer requirements for new business opportunities.
• Coordinate and lead production trials of new and modified products. Supervise Pilot scale trials when appropriate.
• Draft internal and customer specs for developed products.
• Assist Quality Assurance in evaluating and resolving unusual, non-routine customer complaints.
• Provide technical assistance to Manufacturing concerning unusual, non-routine situations.
• Work with Purchasing and Manufacturing in the evaluation of new sources of raw materials, product improvements and/or cost reductions.

Rochester NH

• Refinement and Implementation of PM2 (Stage Gate & Project Management) methodology throughout Performance Materials
• Develop Excel based or appropriate standardized input, tracking, and reporting tools for communicating all PM2 activities. The purpose is to have one common tool for all project teams to utilize in management of their.
• Using the PM2 tools, manage and document project timelines. Schedule, coordinate and document gate reviews. Communicate project status, issues and plans across all levels of Performance Materials. Coordinate all.
• Attend all project reviews to ensure consistency of use of standardized tools and to ensure project teams are staying on track.
• Establish training standards and training systems to build and sustain project management discipline throughout Performance Materials. Identify training needs across Performance Materials and coordinate training to.
• Assist VP R&D in the allocation of resources across all development projects authorized by the Performance Materials Strategy Team.

Marlborough MA

• Lead Engineer on the Engineering Production Team for customer samples.
• Set-up, direct, and trouble shoot batches for new formulations for customer samples (non-routine).
• Mentor other engineers with respect to routine batch set-up.
• Trouble shoots and solves issues during batch manufacture.
• Assess process capability.
• Lead R&D engineering production team hand offs.

• Independently designed and performed laboratory experiments using statistically driven DOE
• Assisted in makeup and testing of XP formulations
• Responsible for performing all accelerated aging testing of new formulations to establish product shelflife.
• Implemented design of experiments to analyze experimental data using JMP statistical software
• Recorded data in official lab notebook and wrote technical reports
• Fully trained in ISO Class 6 clean room protocols

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, International Business

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Bs Chemical Engineering

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