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Carlisle, Pa, Us

Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States

- Handling multiple PVC roofing membrane formulation projects related to raw materials and innovation to solve various product and process related issues for the PVC product line- Actively participating in discussions and solving product related issues in conjunction with the operations team

Mason, Ohio, United States

Terre Haute, Indiana, United States

• Developed elastic laminate side panels for adult incontinence products• Worked on replacing nonwovens from external suppliers with in-house Fitesa nonwovens • Developed an elastic laminate solution for a face mask application in Europe • Lead Fitesa R&D team for communicating with TPE suppliers, adhesive suppliers and nonwoven suppliers (internal and external) for finding perfect raw material solutions for elastic laminate applications in the area of personal care.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Highlights: • Lead development efforts for next-generation lower cost adult-incontinence side panel laminates for major customers in North America (Jan 2020 - Current)• Lead R&D efforts for continuous product transfer trials from one production line to the other at the local manufacturing facility in Terre Haute, IN (Jan 2020 - Current)• Serve as an R&D expert for productivity and process improvement efforts on the new production lines in Terre Haute, IN (Jan 2020 - Current)• Lead R&D effort in transferring an elastic laminate product (side panel for training pants) for a major customer in Europe from a local to a foreign manufacturing site in Retsag, Hungary with a new production line. Continuous efforts also include assisting the operations team in specifications change, process improvement input (2017- 2020)• Assist in developing a next-generation, lower cost product for the same customer using different raw materials and processing techniques • Lead development of lower cost (value tier) elastic laminates for baby diaper ears for the developing markets (2018 - Current)• Develop and commercialize a diaper ear product for open diapers for a customer in Europe and provide continued assistance for the operations team for process and product improvement. Efforts also included in providing assistance to the customer to improve end use stability (2017-2019)• Lead the capacity improvement team for the commercial line in a foreign manufacturing site focusing on the rate of production (2018 - 2019)

Richmond, Virginia Area

Highlights:• Assist in resolving issues arising during end-product conversion at the customer due to product integrity failure by developing a test method to better understand the product failure phenomena• Provide R&D support at local production facilities by overseeing the process and product data to make sure a consistent product is manufactured at all times (Jan 2016 - Oct 2016)• Identify equivalent European raw materials to the US counterparts for product transfer to the new commercial line in Retsag, Hungary (Mar 2016 - July 2016)• Worked with the defect detection company for plastic films to modify their technology for Tredegar products in Retsag, Hungary (Nov 2016 - 2017)• Assist Sr. Engineers in running pilot line trials, analyzing data, benchmarking products

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

The goal of the project was to knit tri-component monofilament fibers (nylon-6, nylon- 6,6 and PET were the components of the monofilament yarns) with different denier, elongations and cross-sections and dye them using sponsor specifications. Caustic washing treatment was deemed necessary to make the monofilaments knittable during the first stage of the project, while the yarns were knitted without any treatment during the second stage of the project. SEM micrographs were used to detect the change in the cross-sections of the monofilaments before and after knitting (and/or after caustic treatments) and after dyeing. (Advisors: Dr. Peter Hauser and Dr. Jon Rust)

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

1. Dynamic properties of single-phase and multi-phase polymers on a micro and macro scales were studied using dynamic nanoindentation and conventional DMA respectively. A good agreement was observed between the dynamic properties studied using nanoindentation and conventional DMA.2. Quasi-static nanoindentation was used to measure the static elastic modulus and hardness of the materials on the micro scale. The static and dynamic properties of a biopolymer Poly(L-lactic acid) were also studied as a function of crystallinity using nanoindentation measurements.3. Indentation size effect where the hardness (and modulus) values decrease with increase in indentation depth was observed for the single phase and multi-phase materials with the error being higher in the case of the multi-phase materials, mostly due to the presence of different phases. The observation in our case was similar to the one found in the literature, with no concrete proof of the fact that higher error in multi-phase materials was due to the presence of multiple phases.(Advisor: Dr. Wendy Krause)

Cincinnati, Oh

Master's thesis project involved studying the Orientation of Nanoclay Platelets and their Co-relation to Mechanical Properties for Polyethylene-Nanoclay Composites (Advisor: Dr. Gregory Beaucage)

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Assist and observe the development work for high-performance polyurethane elastomers and their characterization at the High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Pune, India (Advisor: Dr. R.V Singh)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Fiber And Polymer Science; Materials Science And Engineering, B+

Activities and Societies: Group Leader for the Textile Engineering group during the Summer Textiles Exploration Program organized.

Ms, Materials Science And Engg, B

Project title was "Orientation Studies of Polymer-Nanoclay Composites" (Advisor: Dr. Gregory Beaucage)

Bachelor'S Degree, Polymer/Plastics Engineering, First Class