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Professional Experience
CONSULTANT
Self employed technical and management
consultant to the adhesives, coatings, and chemical industry.
Provide consulting, management, and contract services for
the design, application, scale up and formulation of solvent and
water borne polymers for adhesives, binders and coatings.
MERRIMACK COLLEGE - NORTH ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS and RIVIER COLLEGE- NASHUA , NEW HAMPSHIRE
Adjunct Instructor teaching Organic Chemistry in the classroom and the laboratory including analytical techniques and the practices of microscale synthesis.
SURFACE COATINGS (RAFFI AND SWANSON) WILMINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Technical Director for Industrial Products.
Developed pressure sensitive adhesives; inks, dispersions and
industrial coatings; solution and emulsion acrylic
polymerizations; custom synthesis and formulation projects.
Primary responsibility for design conception, review, guiding
projects through laboratory scale, customer evaluation, and
initial plant scale up. Member of the company management
committee.
TYCO ADHESIVES (KENDALL) LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Research Associate/Manager. Managed the
formulation, synthesis, and scale up of pressure sensitive
polymers for medical and industrial tape applications. Managed
group which developed and improved CURAD(R) first aid products
and POLYKEN(R) industrial tapes utilizing natural and synthetic
rubbers, acrylic and silicone pressure sensitive adhesives, film
and fabric backings. Conducted research on acrylic and
vinyl-acrylic emulsion and solution polymerizations for tape
applications and provided marketing and plant support.
ROHM AND HAAS SPRING HOUSE, PENNSYLVANIA
Emulsion polymer scale up of acrylic and
vinyl-acrylic polymers for Trade Sales and Industrial Coatings,
textiles, floor polish,inks, and non-wovens markets. Development
of solution polymers for use as antiwear additives, ashless
dispersants and detergents, dewaxing aids, rust inhibitors, and
viscosity index improvers.
Education
Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, NH
M.S. (Organization and Management)
Brown
University, Providence, RI
Ph. D. ( Organic Chemistry)
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
B.S. (Chemistry)