Nicholas Shelton Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

Piney Flats, Tennessee, US

Stone Mountain, GA, US

• Procurement of all testing equipment required to advance product roadmap in the US R&D laboratories while maintaining the entire department’s budget
• Led a safety gap analysis between our international laboratories to monitor and put in place new safety procedures in the US laboratories
• Maintenance of all testing equipment including yearly calibration, maintenance, and repair
• Developed an online check out procedure for test equipment to help better share critical resources between teams

Alpharetta, Georgia, US

• Led the Product Development / Quality Assurance (PDQA) weekly meeting and developed a Rolling Action Item List (RAIL) to ensure all projects proceeded in a timely manner
• Led the response to all customer claims worldwide. Worked with the factory in Vietnam to obtain needed electrochemistry testing, then took the data, analyzed it, made presentations, and presented it to customers for.
• Improved the lab by obtaining new equipment to better analyze and more efficiently perform tear down analysis both for customer claims and new product development
• Improved consistency and reliability of all data by bringing on statistical analysis
• Analyzed all Certificate of Analysis (COA) and quarterly electrical performance data required by all customers worldwide

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Manages Daramic’s products in core markets and drives strategic marketing projects that bring new solutions to customers. Serves as a subject matter expert for core product offerings regarding features, functions, benefits and value to manage and improve core products.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

• Greatly improved technical relationships with all North and South American customers
• Gave presentations on the technical benefits of Daramic products to improve customer’s battery performance to secure $5MM in annual sales away from competitors
• Summarized collaborative testing results with all customers and presented findings to key stake holders to reach performance requirements of new products
• Lead an inter-company quarterly technical presentation at Daramic’s largest customer to progress all joint projects from inception to resolution
• Attended B2B Strategic Marketing training and implemented these techniques to identify opportunities and market trends to secure nearly $10MM in new product yearly sales
• Established a single point of contact for issue resolution and ensured service requests proceeded properly and timely

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Managed the day to day activities in the lab including the 100+ battery test circuits. Increased the testing equipment utilization from ~30% to greater than 90%. Developed a shuttle table to test batteries in motion, to better simulate real world conditions. Brought on motive power testing capabilities. Managed a $1MM+ expansion of the lab including.

Marlborough, MA, US

• Continued to manage the operation and analysis of all electrochemical cells o Focus shifted towards more analysis, presentation of data to team, and training, and less on the installation and maintenance
• Wrote MySQL queries and R scripts to automatically update cell performance metrics in a table I created in our database
• Updated online database with improvements requested by all users
• Implemented and lead the company’s root cause analysis (RCA) program, which united a cross-functional team to solve major issues. One issue resolved from this was a big problem we were having with very high leakage.
• Trained more than 5 people on how to operate the battery cyclers and furnaces
• Lead a campaign to optimize and automate the operation of the cells

Marlborough, MA, US

• Managed the installation and operation of all electrochemical cells built at the R&D facility - Maintained 80 battery test channels - Wrote the test schedules for the battery cyclers and furnaces - Installed all cells.
• Analyzed electrochemical data, presented the data to the team, and made changes to test plans based off of the data
• Designed a ‘heat cap’ to work with our current furnaces which provided heat to the top of the cell to ensure a negligible thermal gradient

Marlborough, MA, US

• Assembled all battery cells
• Installed all cells into furnaces, and started them on electrochemical and thermal profiles
• Assembled the gas plumbing infrastructure needed to operate cells
• Ordered and maintained all gas systems including vacuum roughing pumps

Wilmington, Delaware, US

• Provided research and develop support to the Advanced Batteries Group
• Extensive experience hand building every part of a lead-acid cell
• Developed a low-cost silver/silver sulfate reference electrode using in house materials which resulted in a cost savings of $3500 and enhanced the quality of the data
• Co-designed a conductivity testing fixture for small powder samples and wrote the standard operating procedure (SOP) resulting in greater consistency and productivity
• Wrote Excel macros to transform raw data from battery cyclers to finished reports enhancing productivity by saving 200 hours of manual calculation
• Respirator and lead decontamination experience