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• Product development leader interfacing with suppliers, vendors and external partners for optical material scale-up from < 1m2, lab-scale sheets to > 1,000,000 m2/year continuous roll production• Manage multi-functional engineering efforts of B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. scientists and engineers focusing on polymer design, structure-property enhancement, and flexible electronics application engineering• Develop and execute a strong intellectual property strategy revolving around polysulfide thermoset usage in products for the $106B information display market• Lead product portfolio expansion by fundraising non-diluting cash from public and private entities for high-risk/high-reward technical projects worth in excess of $1.5M• Interface with strategic and financial partners for achieving technical and financial milestones through Seed and A funding rounds• Oversee a multidisciplinary technical team consisting of various technical backgrounds including Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Material Scientists and Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science• Develop innovative new optical polymers for the emerging flexible display market

• Developed novel materials and manufacturing processes for cost-effective, scalable organic substrates used in the flexible electronics industries, with a specific focus on flexible display hardware• Investigated experimental materials for the synthesis of organic substrates which can enable stretchable electronic devices, with a specific focus on conformal electronic displays• Responsible for the design, sourcing, setup, and management of a $1M flexible electronics prototyping laboratory in a class 100 cleanroom environment• Negotiated purchase agreements with key suppliers and external partners to reduce materials costs by up to 80% at large-scale production volumes • Led teams with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials science and engineering and chemistry backgrounds towards a material• Project management leader for the polymer research and development group to formulate new engineered materials for optical systems applications as substrates, adhesives, and cover lenses• Directed the research of high-volume compatible optical materials for consumer product applications, focused on consumer electronic hardware applications of flexible display technologies such as mobile handsets, tablets, and notebooks

• Graduate team leader for new polymer research and development, with a focus on multi-functional substrate materials for electronic device fabrication• Advanced chemistries used for implantable device substrates to other applications in the semiconductor and energy sectors• Developed new materials that allow for the microfabrication of electronic devices for use in interfacing with the central and peripheral nervous systems• Expanded the thiol-ene reaction space to enable substrate materials which are stiff for soft tissue insertion, while softening after exposure to in vivo conditions to relieve mechanical stress between tissue and device• Applied thiol-‘click’ materials design for use in semiconductor packaging and oil and gas applications• Led the polymer design and synthesis division of a $1.8M/year laboratory• Administered $0.2M/year for industrial research projects in materials for semiconductor packaging and energy sector high-temperature plastics• Directly mentored over 25 high school, undergraduate and graduate researchers towards materials discovery and applied polymer chemistry• Awarded Eugene McDermott Graduate Fellowship in 2015, Jonsson Family Graduate Fellowship in Bioengineering in 2014, and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2013

• Designed a spatially-resolved, optically-triggered reversible adhesive.• Researched materials design for hybrid inorganic-organic shape memory polymer nanocomposites.

• Researched optimal photo-cleavable cell culture substrates using cRGD functionalization.• Investigated wound healing through cell migration on photo-cleavable substrates.