Xiaoming Chen Email & Phone Number

1750 Indian Wood Circle, Maumee, Ohio 43537, US

• Provide technical leadership and engineering directions to Advanced Development projects.
• Subject matter expert on plastic composites, sheet molding compounds, rigid polyurethane foam, and their processing technologies; identify new materials and processes that could be incorporated into corporate.

• Built and managed an ISO-auditable Analytical Testing Lab to support Engineering Resin product lines; successfully passed the ISO, A2LA and customer audits in conjunction with production and quality teams in 2014 and.
• Initiated and oversaw six capital expenditure projects to expand organizational testing capabilities for quality assurance, application/product/process development and customer approval.
• Led a team in application/product/process development (or improvement) through Design of Experiment, testing protocol development, testing and data analysis.
• Created >$500,000/yr in value by recommending formulations for new products, screening raw materials for cost reduction, instituting new procedures for quality improvement, and presenting technical talks to customers.

Columbia, SC, US

• Spearheaded material characterization and testing for material development projects.
• Oversaw safety and operations of Principal Investigator (PI) labs and mentored students.
• Uncovered new grant opportunities and wrote grant proposals; helped PIs secure two industrial grants and accomplished project through execution of experimental design, data collection and analysis, and technical.
• Authored 10 peer-reviewed journal articles and filed one US Patent (jointly with BASF).

Columbia, SC, US

• Designed, synthesized, and evaluated a series of nanoplatelet-filled polymer composites for packaging and tire applications in partnership with Michelin North America and Mead-Westvaco, respectively.
• Helped write proposals and assisted PI in securing funding from Mead-Westvaco and Michelin North America.
• Managed safety and operations of PI lab and facilitated student mentorship; mentees won 1st place research awards in Chemical Engineering Department in 2007 and 3rd place poster award at AIChE conference in 2008.
• Contributed to PI’s launch of a startup company (Parallel Permeation, Inc.); secured startup funding of $75,000.

Columbia, SC, US

• Delivered a suite of parallel computing codes for structural characterization of fiber tows and simulation of resin flows through fibrous media for a lightweight vehicle manufacturing project funded by National Science.
• Systematically studied plasticization of LEVAN using the melting compounding approach; provided PIs with data to win SBIR grant from EPA.
• Authored 2 papers and mentored three undergraduate students.

• Conceptualized and prototyped gas permeation measurement instrument, gathered data for technical sale presentation.
• Submitted business proposals to industrial, state and federal agencies; obtained $75,000 in startup funding.
• Surveyed the market in plastics packaging industry and used the data-driven approach to make go or no-go decision for business.

Ph.D, Chemical Engineering - Polymer Composites & Nanocomposites

Master, Materials Engineering - Rapid Solidification Of Alloys

Bachelor, Heat Treatment And Metallic Materials