Subject Matter Expert in solving product development, compound formulations, manufacturing, and regulatory issues to improve bottom line results. Track record of leading global teams and partnering with industry experts to create solutions for production and regulatory requirements.Leadership & Business Development• Customer Technical Service | Product Development• Strategy and Vision• Industry & Government Partner & Influencer • OEM Quality & Revenue Improvements • Budget Management | Cost Reduction• Coaching | International Team Building • Critical Thinking & Effective CommunicationsTechnical• Global Regulatory Strategies | REACH Management• Lean | Six Sigma• Product Registrations • Environmental Impacts & Toxicology Management• Rheology | Compound Impacts | Quality Control• Product Development | Manufacturing & Scale Up• Taguchi Design Engineering

Manage the N.A. Compliance Team providing the support and implementation of customer product compliance requests, product compliance and risk management controls for all phases of product development and the commercialization for products that are under the North American Compliance Team’s responsibility. In addition provide support for REACH assessments concerning OMNOVA products.

Managed regulatory registration and compliance for HSE; Toxicology: TSCA and Prop 65; REACH (European chemical regulatory agency); K-REACH (Korean chemical regulatory agency) Teams for new and existing products. Managed process and global teams including legal, technical and REACH Only Representative. • Reduced legal costs and REACH Only Representative business partner costs.• Member of Technical Board International Chewing Gum Association, ICGA. Contributed to establishing Chinese Government Gum Regulations. Advised ICGA on polymer technology and made recommendations that were accepted by legal, ICGA, and Chinese Government.• Co-published poster (pictorial diagram) through Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, SETAC, on “Activity-based Analysis of the Environmental Toxicity of Diaryl Phenylenediamines” 2015 Vancouver with Drs. Gobas and Leber. • Published in Chemosphere (peer reviewed) “Biodegradability of the antioxidant diaryl-p- phenylene diamine using a modified inherent biodegradation method at an environmentally relevant concentration” 2013.• Evaluated newly developed and existing products for customer applications and physical property characteristics.• Partnered with world renown scientists on evaluating material toxicities and environmental implications. • Managed regulatory compliance and regulations ensuring products met 100% compliance.• Worked with trade organizations including Chicago Rubber Group, Southern Rubber Group, NAPA, and IISRP.• Led and participated global meetings with EC, Environmental Canada, and ECHA, European Chemical Association.• Managed Registration and Dossier data development.• Leveraged data across product lines and established best practice guidelines.• Collaborated with EPA, FDA, ECHA, EC, Korea, and Turkey on regulatory issues.• Mentored and coached scientists, sales, marketing, and production on technology applications and career goals.

Technical consultant for clients on how to best utilize and optimize Goodyear products. Consulting services also included using Goodyear’s lab to test client compounds and polymers to confirm performance standards.  Diagnosed issues and proposed recommendations working cross functionally with sales teams, scientists, engineers and manufacturing professionals.Six Sigma Black Belt & Project Management Trained. Projects included:• Influenced leadership of an acquired company to utilize Goodyear’s raw materials while maintaining high performance. Project reduced scrap and improved mixing and extrusion rates.• Recommended using higher cost raw materials saving customer money and improved manufacturing mixing process.• Communicated with customers, resolved technical issues, and provided financials around the solutions. • Conducted product evaluations using in laboratory, pilot plant, and full scale plant. Used automated and manual techniques improving quality and productivity and applied financials to recommendations.• Improved performance of Engineered Products for a government contract under rigorous timelines.• Partnered with Marketing Directors to position new products in markets using technical data.

Managed regulatory registration and compliance for HSE; Toxicology: TSCA and Prop 65; REACH (European chemical regulatory agency); K-REACH (Korean chemical regulatory agency) Teams for new and existing products. Managed process and global teams including legal, technical and REACH Only Representative. • Reduced legal costs and REACH Only Representative business partner costs.• Member of Technical Board International Chewing Gum Association, ICGA. • Contributed to establishing Chinese Government Gum Regulations.• Advised ICGA on polymer technology and made recommendations that were accepted by legal, ICGA, and Chinese Government.• Co-published poster (pictorial diagram) through Society of Environmental Toxicology and chemistry, SETAC, on “Activity-based Analysis of the Environmental Toxicity of Diaryl Phenylenediamines” 2015 Vancouver with Drs. Gobas and Leber. • Published in Chemosphere (peer reviewed) “Biodegradability of the antioxidant diaryl-p- phenylene diamine using a modified inherent biodegradation method at an environmentally relevant concentration” 2013.• Evaluated newly developed and existing products for customer applications and physical property characteristics.• Partnered with world renown scientists on evaluating material toxicities and environmental implications.• Managed regulatory compliance and regulations ensuring products met 100% compliance.• Worked with trade organizations including Chicago Rubber Group, Southern Rubber Group, NAPA, and IISRP.• Led and participated global meetings with EC, Environmental Canada, and ECHA, European Chemical Association.• Managed Registration and Dossier data development.• Leveraged data across product lines and established best practice guidelines.• Collaborated with EPA, FDA, ECHA, EC, Korea, and Turkey on regulatory issues.• Mentored and coached scientists, sales, marketing, and production on technology applications and career goals.

Held dual role responsibility as a Senior Development Engineer for Goodyear and simultaneously provided non-Goodyear customer technical support services through a Goodyear sanctioned, newly formed company named Quad D Enterprises, Inc. • Used Six Sigma to fix manufacturing issue at customer site. Conducted detailed and data oriented audit, made recommendation that reduced scrap saving millions and improved quality at a medical device company. Ensured recommendations met FDA requirements. • Analyzed customer data for formulation, manufacturing process, and quality issues of rubber compounding providing solutions in 100% of the situations.

Held dual role responsibility as a Senior Development Engineer for Goodyear and simultaneously provided technical customer service to external customers through a newly formed group sanctioned by Goodyear, Solgenesis. Solgenesis dissolved in 2005 and Quad D Enterprises, Inc. was created to serve the market.• Generated significant sales as a startup.• Subject Matter Expert called to investigate product failures and resolved issue through root cause analysis and Six Sigma at an automotive manufacturer using non Goodyear raw materials. • Provided chemical sales, technical consulting, project development, compound assessment and product failure analysis durability for various external clients.

Led and participated in cross-functional teams to benefit all development and manufacturing projects.• Developed and implemented 8 experimental fabrics for all Passenger, Light Truck, Farm, OTR, and Aircraft Tire applications (Department of Defense) and Racing tires. Improved quality of drag racing tires allowing drivers to break the 300 MPH speed barrier for the first time.• Analyzed failures and re-engineered fabric and steel tire constructions and used data to improve quality and uniformity of new tire product lines for consumer and industrial markets.• Improved manufacturing processes and changed mixing sequences for polymers, dip unit changes for fabrics, changed steel cords and bead wire processes in mills and tire plants domestically and internationally.

Led Process Engineering and Extrusion Uniformity teams for O.E., Passenger, and Light Truck.• Developed new methods, systems, and equipment to reduce process variations and off specification material. Ensured a lean manufacturing process.• Improved mix uniformity, calendar uniformity, rolling resistance reduction teams, and Indy team manufacturing and development

Responsible for 15 to 20 projects with a $5 million budget including a JV between Continental, Toyo, Yokohama, and General Tire for radial truck tire compounding.• Implemented and put in production a 5-year plan in 2.5 years. • Developed new Curing compound to reduce total cure times for tires saving $178MM.• Improved long term durability and quality of truck tires through failure analysis, reverse engineering and process engineering.• Reverse engineered compounds, fabrics, steel constructions and rubber adhesion systems for new product development and improving manufacturing production. • Provided technical support on failure analysis evaluations for preparation of depositions.• Advised management of global trends, technical advances, and availability of technology.• Partnered with international affiliates on technical support, equipment, and formulas. • Developed strong technical relationships with key customers.• Developed and instituted new compound systems into product line.• Taguchi design engineering systems, Statistical Process Control, (SPC).• Developed new tire cord programs: design, procurement, testing, plant trials, and adoption.• Developed and introduced new wire styles to reduce cost and boost product performance.• Developed new laboratory fatigue / adhesion test that correlated to product performance.