Kimberly Westfall Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il

• Define and decide coatings necessary to coat galvanized steel tubing in-line to reach necessary UL performance standards. Recommend resin, epoxy, urethane and other liquid, powder, and UV coating formulas to trial for improved product development.• Work to reduce entire plant’s zinc footprint to eliminate fluctuating costs assumed with today’s metal trading market.• Modify wash and acid solutions to necessary concentrations, temperatures and pHs to obtain coat-able, oil-free tube… Show more • Define and decide coatings necessary to coat galvanized steel tubing in-line to reach necessary UL performance standards. Recommend resin, epoxy, urethane and other liquid, powder, and UV coating formulas to trial for improved product development.• Work to reduce entire plant’s zinc footprint to eliminate fluctuating costs assumed with today’s metal trading market.• Modify wash and acid solutions to necessary concentrations, temperatures and pHs to obtain coat-able, oil-free tube surfaces. Improve electrolytic cleaning system by governing process used with necessary temperatures and frequencies.• Reduce energy consumption by altering frequencies and power used for induction heating. Show less

Melrose Park, Il

Product Development Engineer /Corrosion Specialist •Handling all validation and correction projects running through ASTM and SAE cyclic and salt-spray corrosion chambers. •Working knowledge of only large walk-in cyclic chamber in the state. •Maintain all test values for pH of tanks, creepage and corrosion failure of samples, and pitting or dimpling of samples in test. •Correlate test times to real field exposures… Show more Product Development Engineer /Corrosion Specialist •Handling all validation and correction projects running through ASTM and SAE cyclic and salt-spray corrosion chambers. •Working knowledge of only large walk-in cyclic chamber in the state. •Maintain all test values for pH of tanks, creepage and corrosion failure of samples, and pitting or dimpling of samples in test. •Correlate test times to real field exposures. •Develop necessary testing for validation of new suppliers and material for required applications.Chemistry Lab Technician •Run oil samples for wear metal content, viscosity, and soot analysis. •Validate incoming oil meets industry specifications and compare to use-oil samples. -By SEM and EDS analysis, investigate field failures of metals, adhesives and paint to the specification requirements. •Eliminate future failure and wear opportunities. •Follow-up with customers and plants to determine effectiveness of action plan.•Lead contact for paint database systems and suppliers. •Provide color analysis data to manufacturing plants. •Work with BYK-Gardiner and AkzoNobel to develop new spectrophotometer to meet Navistar color needs. •Work with plant manufacturing techniques to validate paint process with new primers, coatings, and formulas.•Review PPAP submissions for approvals and accuracy of new and existing supplies. Compare to test results and literature.•Prepare in-depth data reports and working instructions on testing and research performed on field failures and active field parts.•Follow ASTM and SAE specifications for testing and reporting. Maintain current publications and report to their specification. .•Participant in NACE and SWE events and volunteer opportunities; involved with community outreach and webinar activities. Show less

-Integrated customer needs and solutions to related product necessities-Gained new perspective of innovative product and technological advances-Interacted under various circumstances to problem solve and inform customers

-Produced silica and titanium nanowires, refining process, leading to agricultural bio-sensor development-Publication in progress in the Journal of Nano Letters, article entitled: “Natural Biopolymers: A Novel Biotemplate for Bottom-Up Fabrication of Functional Nanomaterials.”-Communicated findings to material researcher group, preparing presentations and reports to prepare for publications