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Stonehouse, England, United Kingdom

Falkirk, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Design, plan and cost customer material development and testing projects. Perform physical and chemical tests including infra-red spectroscopy, pyrolysis, corrosion resistance, thermal analysis, and microscopy. Prepare or machine samples, specimens or formulations as required.• Develop polymer ceramic composites: study physical chemical properties, develop formulations processing methods and small scale testing. • Failure analysis on polymer composite products, recommend design, material or process improvements.• Compile records and interpret experimental and analytical results. Generate technical reports.• Perform quality control, inter laboratory and round robin tests.• Commission, operate, maintain and calibrate laboratory equipment. Design and fabricate equipment for bespoke testing. Write operating procedures and risk assessments.• Supervise and train technicians and university interns. Develop training materials, lab demonstrations, and public presentations. Project: Intumescent product development (Project Manager) Nov 2015-April 2017> Developed fire resistant composite which sustains temperatures of 12000C over 90min whilstmaintaining dimensional stability and mechanical properties.> Developed extrusion methods using conventional plastic extrusion machines. The product is soonto enter market aimed at replacing wooden fire door beading and intumescent seals.

Falkirk, United Kingdom

Working part time as per study commitments.Responsibilities:> Assist in performing material testing, sample preparation, and experimental setup.> Write test reports and perform patent research.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Experience of working night shifts in product assembly and packaging.Operating injection moulding machine Arburg All-rounder 320 GE.

Mumbai Area, India

6 months intensive training as a part of diploma curriculum in production and quality control.Responsibilities: •Maintain production records and machine service logs.•Set up equipment for mould trials and prepare trial summary reports. •Design of experiments for process benchmarking and product quality analysis.•Achieved 20% overall reduction in scrap by implementing preventive quality checks on raw material, moulded parts and moulds.•Project: Design and installation of safety devices on injection moulding machine.

Mumbai Area, India

6 months intensive training as a part of diploma curriculum in production environment making injection and blow moulding parts and moulds for automobile industry.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng Honours ), Polymer/Plastics Engineering

Activities and Societies: Student member of Scottish Plastics and Rubber AssociationHonours project: Polymer – ceramic composites..

Diploma, Plastics And Polymer Engineering Technology/Technician, First Class

A 4 year diploma course comprising of 1 year industry placement. Final year project : built a model of roto moulding machine for lab.

Higher Secondary School Certificate ( Hsc), Science

Science stream with Computer Science as vocational subject.