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Part of the senior management team for SciCron Technologies. Manages all business activities (Sales, Operations, Production, Shipping, Maintenance, Laboratory etc.) of SciCon's business unit. Hands on plant management, including leadership of all personnel including laboratory, sales and production. Acts as business unit General Manager for new business development, product introduction, growth strategies, plant budget, lean manufacturing, quality and increased efficiencies. Product pricing and cost analysis. Technical data generation and in-plant technical expert. Plant P&L responsibilities. Identify and implement lean manufacturing initiatives to improve quality, reduce cost. Lead for hazardous waste compliance, OSHA, air permitting and plant safety. Leads the companies' innovation, discovery research for potential new business. Leads the ideation process, scaling new business and transfer to business unit. Established SciCron’ s quality initiative to be the best in the world (Zero quality claim facility). Major contributor to the overall R&D strategy and roadmap for the company.

Small business startup. Started Alchemy Glassworks with a SBA loan and grew the business to $100,000 in sales from zero in 3 years. Responsible for all aspects of business development, sales, marketing and production. Developed coatings systems for glass, plastic, and electroless plating systems for custom decorative glass including backpainted glass, specialty mirrored glass, large format laser etching, waterjet cutting of any material, custom color matched acrylic sheets and other specialty decorative applications. AGW produced unique and custom designs and colors for furniture, architectural and residential.

Highland, New York, Us

Manage a team of technical professionals responsible for new product development of coatings, elastomers and quality control for Spraylat Corporation. Maintain ISO requirements for Spraylat's Chicago laboratory. Evaluated existing systems and developed new systems to improve performance, reduce costs and increase product offerings. Act as project manager for the development of novel materials between Spraylat and the University of Southern Mississippi School of Polymer Engineering. Interface directly with sales and customers on materials, line trials and process technical issues worldwide.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Project manager responsible for developing, improving and integrating processing systems to produce prepainted fiber cement siding. Evaluated design constraints limiting production throughput, quality and developed systems for retrofit or new constructions to eliminate these constraints. Utilized Design of Experiments and Six Sigma tools to increase material yield from 30% to 80%, quality from 20% rejects to 2% and increased production throughput by 70%. Responsible for capital project proposals, budget management, execution of design, equipment install and startup for 6 ColorPlus lines across the US. Developed and implemented standard operating procedures for equipment and material handling for JH ColorPlus.

Leader of process development and materials research: Responsible managing the development of various novel elastomeric, plastic, coatings, and ink materials and constructions, including development of state of the art processes to construct a high performance golf products. Responsible for technology transfer from R&D to production including scale up, materials and process development. Well versed in adhesion theory of low energy difficult to adhere to substrates. generated over 40 patents on novel methods of manufacturing, materials and improvements to prior art. Implemented state of the art processing systems for polymeric materials. Explored and integrated advanced materials, inks and coatings into existing product line. Experience with various process methods to produce polymers including casting, extrusion, injection molding, UV cure, plasma treatment, coatings, electrostatics, calendaring and compression molding. Responsible for managing a team of cross-functional engineers and technicians. Trained engineers and plant personnel with complex systems integration implementation and handling of novel materials. Developed specifications and testing protocol for various manufacturing systems. Responsible for preparing detailed project management schedules, identifying key vendors and overseeing implementation of multi-million dollar processes and materials introduction. Responsible for presenting capital projects for funding in addition to ongoing project status updates to senior management.

Bachelor, Science; Polymer Science

Diploma, Genera Studies