• Managed strategy and innovation for pavement marking products with several hundred million annual sales.• Launched MMAX(R) Extended Season area markings for bike and bus lanes. This innovation offers durable MMA technology with the widest application temperature range in the market, enabling year-round productivity.• Recipient of the 2023 AIChE Industrial Progress Award.

• Led product development team to launch new line of stains for the $2B woodcare market in USCA.• Led core R&D team to develop new platform technologies to support global product development.• Developed technical strategy for product roadmaps with input from marketing and customer insights.• Skilled in project scoping and resourcing to meet launch deadlines, iterative and agile prototyping, and executing commercialization processes such as manufacturing scale-up and production quality control.• Expertise in solventborne and waterborne coating technologies, including acrylic, alkyd, polyurethane, siloxane and hybrid resin chemistries.• 2020 R&D 100 Award for PPG Clean-Surface Technology™

• Developed new waterborne technologies (1K and 2K) for Automotive Refinish and Architectural coatings.• Experienced in mapping patent landscapes and filed five patent applications.• Applied Six Sigma methods for statistical data analysis, measurement system evaluation, and design of experiments.• Skilled in coatings formulation, color matching, hand spray and drawdown application, ASTM testing, and appearance measurements.• Led, influenced and aligned cross-functional, cross-SBU teams.

• Reported on research advancements and educational outreach, resulting in positive reviews by the National Science Foundation and continued funding of $1.5M/year.• Coordinated seminars and interdisciplinary collaborations amongst 10 research groups in the departments of physics, materials science, mechanical, and electrical engineering.• Initiated and strengthened more than a dozen industrial and educational partnerships.• Directed, designed, executed and evaluated nanoscience outreach programs for continuous improvement, such as the Summer Institute for Middle School Teachers and NanoDays at Stanford, reaching over 1000 K-12 students and teachers per year.cpn.stanford.edu, teachers.stanford.edu

• Provided technical consulting services to Department of Energy R&D programs on energy storage and smart grid, each funded at over $20M/year. Supported review and management of proposals, projects, and program portfolios. • Interviewed scientists at universities and national labs and wrote highlight articles for the Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies Program to communicate its R&D to the general public.• Produced workshop reports on “High Penetration of Photovoltaic Systems into the Distribution Grid” and “Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems – Energy Storage”.www.e2rg.com