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Applying my broad chemistry and materials expertise to provide options and solutions to clients that grow and create businesses.

STRIDE is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Delaware. We are organized to deliver open innovation, R&D, education, and consulting services. Our membership has extensive industrial experience in chemistry, biology, polymer/material sciences, and related disciplines.

Wilmington, Delaware

Contributed technical solutions and intellectual property (IP) as key part of team efforts to develop new product and process technologies for 3D printing, gravure printing and bio-derived bottle resin.* Established expertise in thermoplastic 3D printing materials at DuPont, resulting in the first formal program in DuPont Performance Materials to develop and commercialize materials for 3D printing.* Overturned conventional wisdom that semi-crystalline polymers cannot be 3D printed by demonstrating modifications of material and print conditions that enabled printability.* Conducted printing evaluations that helped launch the first commercial DuPont 3D printing filament.* Formulated new thermally and uv cured epoxy coating with improved process economics and environmental acceptability versus incumbent engravable forms for gravure printing (US 9,096,759).* Identified filler characteristics that provided superior scratch and wear resistance for gravure print forms.* Demonstrated thermoplastic sleeve technology for gravure print forms, considered by the business to be a next generation successor of thermoset coating technology.* Developed novel bio-derived polyester formulation with enhanced crystallization rate, improving gas barrier for bottle application.

Wilmington, Delaware

Contributed technical solutions and IP as key part of team efforts to develop new product and process technologies for biomedical hydrogels and bio-derived aromatics.* Developed improved Actamax® resorbable hydrogels for biomedical applications, now in clinical trials as a barrier to formation of post-surgical adhesions, through my key role in formulations development (US 8,951,989), techniques for application, in vitro test methods and in vivo studies.* Helped establish bio-platform technology by developing breakthrough downstream chemistry that broadened range of products beyond p-hydroxycinnamic acid from fermentation of glucose. Chemistry IP includes processes for decarboxylation to p-hydroxystyrene and subsequent polymerization and derivatization (US 7,199,272, US 7,468,415, US 7,534,837, US 7,586,013, US 7,728,082, US 7,803,873).* Identified and developed applications for bio-platform chemicals as photoresists, coatings, adhesion promoters and stabilizers, both in-house and through open innovation with universities.

Wilmington, Delaware

Contributed fundamental understanding to advance product development of ethylene polymer businesses.* Developed characterization methods and structure-property relationships, enhancing understanding of novel microstructure of Versipol® polyolefins.* Received accomplishment award for role in Versipol® HDPE technology that was successfully licensed.* Designed in situ FTIR method for studying reactions at elevated temperatures and utilized to characterize fundamentals of anhydride formation in acid copolymer melts, with immediate application to improvement of Nucrel® extrusion coating resins.* Helped resolve degradation problem in Tyvek® non-woven process by increasing understanding of polyethylene stability in the process.

Wilmington, Delaware

* Collaborated with medical device company in development of angioplasty catheters, resorbable stents (US 5,984,963) and lubricious surfaces (US 5,397,829, US 5,547,761).* Developed and commercialized new grades of Delrin® polyacetal resin—glass-reinforced (US 5,030,668), molder-friendly (US 4,640,949), improved stability (US 4,972,014, US 5,063,263).* Received accomplishment award for securing major weatherable cable tie application by demonstrating product superiority utilizing a novel accelerated weathering technique.* Elucidated mechanism of odor reduction in molder-friendly Delrin® formulations.

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry

Dissertation topic: "Proton NMR Studies of Glucagon Association in Solution" Advisors: Martin Karplus (Nobel Laureate--Chemistry 2013).

B.S., Chemistry

Honors thesis: "Application of a Simple Theory of the Shapes of Small Molecules to Compounds of the Form A2B4" Advisor: Robert G. Parr