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St Paul, MN, US

Performance LabelsBonding TapesScrum MasterR Programmer

St Paul, MN, US

Performance LabelsBonding Tapes

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Formulate, coat, and scale-up novel adhesive, decorative, and protective coating supplies for card and passport printers.
• Development work using water and solvent based resins in combination with additives such as rheology modifiers, tackifiers, and surfactants along with curing agents and catalysts.
• Use DOEs, ANOVA, regression analysis, and other analytical tools to construct, execute, analyze, and report on multiple, simultaneous projects.
• Frequently prepare project reports, timelines, and cost estimates for management.
• Involved in the procurement of resins, additives, solvents, and films.
• Have provided timely technical support to resolve a number of customer complaints for existing products.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• Formulated, coated, and scaled-up novel adhesive, decorative, and protective coating supplies for card and passport printers.
• Development work using water and solvent based resins in combination with additives such as rheology modifiers, tackifiers, and surfactants along with curing agents and catalysts.
• Created unique test methods for original product development.
• Troubleshooted chemical and mechanical problems related to existing film and adhesive supplies.
• Regularly interfaced with diverse business functions including Marketing, Purchasing, Firmware, Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Legal.

St Paul, MN, US

• Designed, synthesized, and characterized new solution and hot melt adhesives to meet the needs of 3M’s internal and external customers for process and product development.
• Participated in manufacturing QA/QC troubleshooting under the guidance of a senior product support specialist.
• Independently synthesized formulations on a scale ranging from a few grams in a round bottom flask to kilograms in a pilot plant reactor.
• Engaged in cross-departmental group discussions of polymer/organic chemistry theory.
• Trained and supervised new employees on lab equipment and safety procedures.
• Ran and helped design a series of small scale experiments that will end up saving 3M approximately $800,000 a year in direct costs by modifying an additive addition step on a high volume product.

Wayzata, Minnesota, US

• Responsible for determining multiple properties of flour such as water absorption and mixing stability by operating and maintaining three farinographs.
• Ran falling number tests on flour samples to assess sprout damage.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, US

• Independently performed density functional theory computations to calculate various parameters of hydrogen bond catalyzed transition states.
• Determined parameters such as bond lengths and bond angles for certain catalyst-anion clusters along with the ΔH needed to separate the two.

Bs, Chemistry

Chemistry