• Evaluated and invented new strategies for the use of sustainable reinforcing fillers with IFF Health and Biosciences to reduce scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions in tire applications. • Designed and analyzed polymer composites that reduced rolling resistance while maintaining treadwear of truck bus radial (TBR) tires in long haul and regional haul applications. • Created and implemented a project to improve the correlation/predictability between laboratory abrasion and tire wear to decrease project timelines and improve the likelihood of success.• Worked closely with the team at Uncountable (a cloud based data management platform) to design and implement a strategy for the reinforcement materials global labs to transition to their data management platform to afford closer collaboration.

• Worked with the regional applications development (AD) labs to define priorities and allocate resources. • Interfaced with customers globally to identify their product needs and CTQs. Interpreted this information into relative lab improvement performance metrics and proposed new stage gate projects to meet the needs of the customer.• Product positioned our existing product portfolio for different tire components and applications to ascertain existing white space for future particle solutions. • Defined the technical capabilities required within our applications development labs globally and started a three year plan to purchase new equipment to achieve these challenging targets. • Worked closely with the global tire marketing manager to launch the PROPEL® X carbon black (CB) product line at the Tire Technology Expo 2018 for U-UHP and racing tire applications. Developed the technical marketing collateral for PROPEL® X CBs that the technical service (TS) and AD teams would use to interface with the customer.

• Lead a group of peers on several different projects from invention to application to improve wear resistance within tire tread compounds.• Designed a new polymer for extremely high ultimate tensile properties (> 35 MPa) without sacrificing elongation for use in tire applications by understanding the structure-property relationships that govern tensile strength in filled systems.• Proposed, tested and implemented a new bladder compound that improved bladder life with conservative cost savings of greater than $1.5 MM/year/tire plant (Bridgestone Presidents Award 2017).• Received a Bridgestone CEO award, second most prestigious award within Bridgestone, for work that was developed within my first two years on UV curable materials.

• Responsible for the development of a laboratory crack growth protocol and analysis method to understand how fatigue and tear strength relate to wear resistance.• Worked to understand the structure-property differences between alternative natural rubber sources, guayule – Parthenium argentatum and TKS – Taraxacum kok-saghyz, in comparison to hevea – Hevea brasiliensis natural rubber.• Worked on several cross functional teams to develop new concepts within the tire industry.

• Developed a new polymeric blend, based on polyimide precursors and poly(ethylene oxide) that has shown promise in separating binary gas mixtures, in which one of the gases is carbon dioxide.• Originated a new method to make patterned nanoparticle composites, where the nanoparticle is a metal oxide and the polymer is a UV curable photoresist. These patterned nanoparticle composites have the potential to be coated in a high throughput manner, such as roll-to-roll and have exhibited photonic, high refractive index, and anti-reflective properties. • Used these patterned nanoparticle composites to create large area 3D photonic crystals with a photonic band gap, which could be used for manipulating incoming electromagnetic waves and controlling light emission.

• Characterized the flame retardant properties upon pyrolysis of deoxybenzoin-based polyarylates, polyphosphonates, and poly(arylate-co-phosphonate)s which exhibit ultra fire resistant properties.• Elucidated the degradation mechanism and byproducts upon pyrolysis of a series of deoxybenzoin-based polymers and copolymers using a pyrolysis gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer. These polymers exhibit fire resistant properties with relatively few harmful byproducts when compared to halogenated fire retardants.• Compared the UV and hydrolytic stability of these deoxybenzoin-based ultra fire resistant polymers in solution and as a film to further the applications of these polymeric systems.

Worked on melt compounding thermally exfoliated graphite into poly(ethylene naphthalate) to reduce the coefficient of thermal expansion, reduce the resistivity of the films, and increase the mechanical properties for applications involving data storage.