Nathan Werst Email & Phone Number

Eugene, Or, Us

Technical Director for Performance Products division.

Eugene, Oregon Area

Group leader for WVCO's R&D Railroad and Performance Products division. Product Technical Manager for SpikeFast, FastPatch, and POLYQuik product lines. Five direct reports (4 Chemist, 1 Technician). Project manager and lead formulator for 2K urethane, 2K urea, 1K primers, 1K silane terminated, and other reactive chemistry groups.

Eugene, Oregon

Formulator of 1/2K systems primarily for CASE applications. Areas of emphasis: durable repair materials; high performance sealants, adhesives, primers, biobased and renewable urethane materials. Proven ability to innovate and provide polymers to meet demanding performance criteria using existing manufacturing capabilities for rapid scale up and immediate market impact for a variety of customers and applications.Directly responsible for technology transfer and production scale-up; work closely with manufacturing to provide good recipe instructions and process controls, effectively designed and improved procedures and quality metrics. Great technical writing skills, extensive work authoring and maintaining product technical data sheets, technical bulletins, reports, and other marketing materials for sales staff.Experienced with wide variety of instruments and methods for characterization of materials and performance.

Bend, Oregon

Worked as part of the initial feasibility research group at R&D facility; responsible for the initial characterization and method development for the analysis of new APIs and formulations (SSDs and tablets). Characterized active pharmaceutical ingredients to formulate spray dried dispersions. Provided data and recommendations to engineering/production staff for optimum conditions, percent drug loading, and polymer/solvent selection. Analyzed pilot batches of drug/polymer spray dried dispersions: enhanced solubility, dissolution rate, membrane permeation, physical and chemical stability, potency and purity.Excellent working knowledge of analytical instruments and techniques (HPLC, GC, MS, DSC, etc).

Eugene, Oregon

Extensive hands-on work synthesizing and characterizing physical properties of polymers. Novel synthetic pathways to create viable tire rubber from plant oils: developed hybrid epoxidation-vulcanization process.Excellent experience with organic chemistry: capable synthetic chemist for small molecules with complex, multi-step pathways.

Salem, Or

Designed and performed experiments to develop and optimize methods for measuring phospholipid phase transitions using light scattering techniques.

M.S., Chemistry

Ba, Chemistry, Classical Studies