Polymer Consultant: Vinyl Compounds for Pencil, Eraser and Tubing Products.

Technical Consultant #1007

Vinyl compound design of erasers and plastic lead for pencil, including designing and installing extruder line for eraser toppers and plug erasers.
Product development for deck coating, cement resurfacing and fire retardant coatings for orientated strand board (OSB).
Worked on highly durable exterior moisture cure products to replace epoxy in stone aggregates floors, plastic primers for polyethylene and permanent anti-graffiti coatings.
Designed a new type of extruder mixing head and exit dye so that multiple strands could extrude at simultaneous speeds.

Independent Consultant, 2001 - Present

Moon Products Inc., Project Manager, 1996 - 2000

Developed and built a polymeric core plant to produce plastic lead for pencils and installed a dry vinyl process to make vinyl erasers and a thermoplastic eraser compound to replace natural rubber latex.

Sanford-Newell Inc., Project Manager, 1986 - 1995

Developed co-extrusion lines for pencils and tubing and the polymeric systems to be used on these machines.

The Tape Coat Company, Project Manager, 1977 - 1986

Designed a hydrostatic bearing system for calenders for precision casting.
Developed hot melt pipe wraps, rubberized asphalt and coal tar products for pipelines; primers for high cathodic protection.
Developed mastics emulsions from asphalt and coal tar as the base for many coating products.

Dr. Scroll, Head of R/D, 1975 - 1977

Developed two products; fire retardant for Chrysler and Ford and silicone release coat for polyethylene.

The Kendall Company, Product Development Specialist, 1971 - 1975

Ran emulsion polymerization reactors in lab and production.
Developed pipeline primer and tape for world pipeline in Alaska, Iran and Russia.

U.S. Army Chemical Corps, Army Reserves for 6 years, Captain

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