Chemical Consultant for Industrial Lubricants and Gasoline Additives

Technical Consultant #1501

Industrial lubricants: Formulation, development, testing, applications and technical sales.
Industrial lubrication support: Seminars, selling, and troubleshooting.
Automotive chemical formulation, development, testing and product demonstrations.
Gasoline additive chemistry, formulation, lab and field testing.
Industrial coatings and automotive rust protective coatings, development, testing, selling, and troubleshooting.
Adobe elements 11 and lightroom 5.
Field experience with metalworking fluids and hydraulic mineral and water based lubricants.
Expert witness - petroleum products, automotive chemicals.

Independent Consultant, Present

Castrol Heavy Duty Lubricants, Senior Field Engineer, Baltimore, MD, 1986 - 2005

Responsible for all technical aspects of an industrial lubricant product line.
Lubricant marketing, including customer presentations, sales training, writing product literature, preparing and presenting seminars, field troubleshooting, product application recommendations and new product development.
Initiated an industrial fluid analysis testing program.
Served large industrial accounts, national and international.

Ashland Oil Inc., (Valvoline), Ashland, KY, 1977 - 1986

Technical Manager

Provided oversight for four laboratories in development, manufacture and technical service for the following areas:
Industrial Lubricants - Metalworking fluids straight water soluble and, semi-synthetic and synthetic, hydraulic fluids, quenching fluids.
Industrial coatings,(Tectyl®), Including solvent cutback, straight, waterborne and hot melt.
Development of motor oil additives - multi-functional and rust inhibitors.
Automotive chemicals: 50 products for NAPA, including cooling system additives, polishes, cold weather products and hand cleaners.
Presentations of these products to customers and sales and worked with national and international accounts.
Member of the corporate patent committee.

Laboratory Supervisor:

Supervised development of a new line of soluble oil and synthetic metalworking fluids.
Worked with manufacturing, marketing and sales to successfully bring products into the marketplace.

Sun Oil Company,Marcus Hook, PA, 1962 - 1975

Supervised research and development of gasoline additives, including formula screening, field trials and problem solving.
Provided technical support for metalworking fluids by developing new products and providing sales and customers with technical information.
Developed an anti-mist cutting fluid.
Developed a straight drill flute grinding oil.
Performed polymer (polypropylene) physical testing.

Academic and Professional Affiliations

B.S., Organic Chemistry, Widener University, Chester, PA