Professional Analytical-Materials Chemist with more than 15 years of project management, investigations, quality, group leadership, business development, teaching and educationProject management and team leadership with multi-department projects spanning from a month to multi-years in length. Leading and/or participating in more than 800 projects involving chemistry, materials, environment, health and safety, and sustainability in academic, commercial, industrial, and government settings. An emphasis has been placed on materials for the energy, materials, and environmental sectors. Tasks including group leadership (2 to more than 20 direct personnel), writing proposals, business development, teaching/education, group training, preparing and presenting presentations to various groups and at conferences, CAPEX, safety review, quality review, data interpretation, design of experiments, as well as project and department road mapping have been at the core of assignments. Analytical-Materials Chemistry Specialist - polymers, failure investigations/root-cause analysis, materials preparation (synthesis, modification and/or activation), polymer and materials research (macro, micro and nano). Specialties in Analytical Chemistry - HPLC (reversed phase, ion chromatography, normal phase, size exclusion), Gas Chromatography, Materials analysis (i.e. thermal analysis, mechanical analysis, FT-IR, SEM, FT-IR, etc).