Caltech
Pasadena, Ca, Us
Senior Manager of the Materials and Process Simulation Center• Established and managed a number of multi-year contracts with Academia (UCLA, SFSU, CalState, URL, UVG, PUJ) and Industry (3M, Avery Dennison, Kellogg's, Exxon, Owens Corning, Chevron, Dow Chemical, Saudi Aramco, Hercules, Dow Corning).• Responsibilities included writing proposals, managing budgets, hiring and training postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, executing industrially sponsored research. • Collaborated with Industrial Scientist in solving key technological problems in product development areas from new materials, to catalyst development, to invention of novel processes. • Collaborated in multiple publications and patent applications. These programs promoted applied scientific research, trained industrial scientist, created workshops and annual scientific meetings at Caltech. • Over 20 years experience in the application and management of Industrial collaborations including partnership with General Electric (Polymers), 3M (Stain Fabric Protectors), Owens Corning (E-glass), General Motors (Fuel Cells), Avery Dennison (Pressure Sensitive Adhesives), Kellogg's (Corn Syrups), Chevron-Texaco (Corrosion, Scale, Wear Inhibitors), Exxon-Mobil (Gasoline Reforming Catalysts) and Saudi Aramco (emulsions and asphaltenes), Dow Corning (PDMS polymers). • Principal investigator in US government funded projects by the National Science Foundation (NSF, nanotechnology), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, pollution prevention), the Department of Defense (DoE, electronic nose) and the Department of Energy (DoE, oil basin modeling and oil migration indicators). • Applied Quantum Mechanics to solve problems in Nanotechnology, Energy production and storage devices (Li-ion Battery, Fuel Cells, Oil additives, catalysis, specialty chemicals). Applied Molecular Dynamics to biological projects (peptide antibiotics, vancomycin, NMDA receptors) and protein crystallization problems.