I have had the pleasure of working with an amazing group of individuals that were charged with developing a fully new degradable commodity polymer. My professional gratification and technical advancement have continually been satisfied from a constant environment of being introduced to, and then immersing myself in, completely new technical fields within the broad thermoplastic product, application, and process or manufacturing development space. I thoroughly desire to find another challenge that is seeking individuals that thrive in environments where they are presented with difficult technical challenges. My unique deep mechanical and processing attitude coupled with a strong science and engineering intellect would be a great asset across a wide range of potential opportunities. Extensive experience formulating within the degradable thermoplastic world, altering a wide range of physical properties via additives and blends to optimize product performance. (Impact strength, crystallization rates, degradation rate, thermal stability, cost, melt processability, among others.) Substantial hands-on experience with film and sheet processing, extrusion coatings, thermoforming, synthetic fiber spinning, extrusion foam, non-wovens, aqueous dispersions. For most, I have completed multiple longer-term solutions to optimize the product behavior, optimization of equipment operation and performance, and designing and validating new processing operations. I am quite confident that I have the capability to quickly comprehend and become a proficient contributor for any processing/converting/manufacturing operation. Highly skilled and experienced in polymer single and twin-screw extrusion, and polymer processing (drying, crystallizing, polymer and additive feeding equipment). Served as in-house expert for new extrusion processing investigations, especially for all non-standard ventures. Having worked for a new-to-market raw material polymer supplier, I have significant experience with this customer facing interaction side across a wide range of/// applications and situations. Helping customers to understand potential issues, changes, differences that may enable better and faster product development. Led multiple scaleup manufacturing activities for new polymer formulations, at both internal and external processing locations. 15+ year manager of lab scale polymer processing laboratory, oversight of all aspects of lab setup, safety, operation, maintenance. De-facto onsite mechanical and electrical equipment issues/repairs/installation person.