★ Mapped out future technologies for the company and worked with internal teams on implementation of new technologies as well as modifications to existing technologies. ★ Led cross-functional teams in designing and implementing chemical processes for various applications. Collaborated with process engineers, ensuring efficient and safe production while adhering to industry standards.★ Worked with management, commercial, manufacturing and supply chain teams to ensure strategies are consistent with company and customer needs. ★ Maintained professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, benchmarking state-of-the-art practices, participating in professional societies, etc.★ Role involved meticulous planning, budgeting, and coordination to ensure projects met specified guidelines and standards. Managed capital projects with a total value of up to $25 million, consistently delivering successful outcomes.★ Collaborated with key stakeholder groups (owners, designers, and contractors) throughout the project lifecycle. Ensured adherence to project specifications and industry standards.

★ Conducted Shelf life analysis for commercial products and improve the shelf life time.★ Lead or participated in internal and external trials ranging from ideation to full-scale production. Coordinated as needed between R&D, commercial and manufacturing teams to ensure successful launches of new technologies and/or products. ★ Investigated, analyzed and implemented new technologies for future growth of company including Capital Expenditure items over $1 million. ★ Support technical team in testing of Flame Retardants and Graft polymers including UL certification.★ Lead projects with successful commercialization and projected revenue generation of over $5 million annually.★ Manage company's Intellectual Property data, certification, maintenance of patents, Non-Disclosures and library.

★ Work with manufacturing departments to improve current production processes. Improvements include, but not be limited to productivity improvements, set up time reductions, overall efficiencies improvements, and/or scrap reduction initiatives using Lean Six Sigma Methodologies, FMEA and Root Cause Analysis,★ Provide financial justification for capital expenditures including multiple vendor quotations organized for a formal presentation to the Operations Manager.★ Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements (OSHA, EPA) and quality standards (ISO, GMP).Conducted thorough process audits, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions.★ Identifying and developing process and equipment needed to produce specific products, parts, and components.★ Assist in providing research and technical support as it applies to changes to the production process acting as a liaison between R&D and Manufacturing. Work with Quality department on ISO and ASTM based testing.★ Working with subsidiary manufacturing departments as liaison to assist in the implementation of suggested improvement to the process and production procedures.★ Working knowledge with polymeric materials like Polyamides, PVC, EPDM Rubber, Polyethylene, Polypropylene and Polyesters.

Hired as a full-time researcher at BMRG of MSU with full support for master’s program at MSU. Trained and supervised up to 10 undergraduate and graduate level employees. Involved in new product development targeting commercial product lines and gaining expertise in data analysis, process design and process development. Handled procurement of chemical inventory and prioritize and implement customer-oriented tests. ★ Achieved development of cost-effective blends of polymer compounds for packaging and materials industry challenging current commercial products. Conduct research to solve technical problems and investigate cost reduction techniques. Developed cost reduced products up to 70% of original. ★ Developed expertise in polymer compounding to corelate with industry needs. Often involved in maintenance and troubleshooting of equipment, heavy machinery and analytical instrumentation. ★ Prepared project reports to support customer needs with detailed studies on characterization of end-product including mechanical, chemical and thermal testing.

Selected as one of the 20 students around the world for internship program to gain experience in advanced engineering.★ Achieved groundbreaking results on degradation of bio-based polymers, contributed to American Standards Testing, suggested opportunity for million-dollar business and ranked top/best poster presentation for the internship program.★ Developed understanding of CAD drawings through design study of pilot plant and contributed to improvement of plant operations. Optimized degradation process by 50% original rate for plastics. ★ Conducted site visits to composting and wastewater treatment facilities and learnt pilot plant management systems★ Collaborate in group projects, attended networking sessions and worked on independent study on testing and degradation of bio-polymers under anaerobic action.

★ Fabricated lab scale fuel cell and conducted a study of Microbial fuel cell power (MFC) generation using various industrial effluents. Worked on material testing of Proton exchange membrane (PEM) for MFC. ★ Project report on comparison of electricity generation from effluents for maximum power generation. ★ Published thesis on “Design and economics of Large-scale Caprolactum manufacturing plant”.

★ Studied in-depth reforming reactions for Hydrogen production using natural resources to provide an alternative to petroleum industry. ★ Project report on “Simulation of Steam Reforming reaction and Optimization of Oxidative steam reforming reaction of various components of Bio-oil”.★ Learnt programming and simulation on MATLAB – Simulink and ASPEN PLUS ™ to compare theoretical and experimental results.