Plastic Consultant

Technical Consultant #1757

Engineering Polymers, nylon, acetal, polyester, thermoplastic elastomers.
New business development, sales, marketing, manufacturing, and product development in the chemicals and plastics industries.
Polymer processing, injection molding, extrusion, blow molding, films, thermoforming, textile fibers, chemicals and training.
Extensive knowledge in the plastic industry covering consumers, electronic and automotive markets.
Plastic product analysis, product introduction, technology to market, and product line management.
Building new businesses and product offerings in a wide set of markets from industrial materials to life sciences as well as initiating commercial sales in the consumer, industrial, automotive and electronic markets.
Director, small capitalization businesses.

Undisclosed Company, Owner, 1998 - Present

Sales and Marketing Consultant to the chemical and polymeric materials and processing industry.
Expert knowledge in nylon, acetal, polyester (PBT & PET) and thermoplastic elastomers.

E. I DuPont De Nemours and Company, Inc., 1972 - 1998

Corporate New Business Development, 1997 - 1998

Strategic venture team chartered for white space evaluation, searching for new business opportunities for the corporation.
Identified personal care market with $500 million of opportunity for DuPont and had program adopted into commercial chemicals business unit.

Engineering Polymers Strategic Business Unit, 1996 - 1997

North American Marketing and Sales Manager for the industrial and consumer segments - with 18 direct reports.
Responsible for $215 million current sales and $27 million new business generation annually.
Key marketing member of the Americas DELRIN® and HYTREL® business teams.
Market Segmentation Manager at 6 key application areas.
Represented business unit on the DuPont Corporate Sales Networking Team.

Engineering Polymers, 1990 - 1995

Eastern Region Sales and New Business Development Manager responsible for $82 Million new OEM business generation.
Key member in the formation and Marketing Leadership of the Americas ZYTEL® nylon Business Team.
Global Market Segmentation Manager for the sales of engineering polymers to the appliance industry.
Initiated the Nylon Polymer Textile Waste Reclamation task force, redirection wide spec/off spec/odd lot product from bury/burn to highest value sale program.

Industrial / Engineering Polymers, 1986 - 1989

Sales and Development Manager for HYTREL® and ALCRYN® thermoplastic elastomers.
Grew HYTREL® business from $25 million to $45 million sales.
Redirected ALCRYN® business to major distributor network as route to profitability success and increased value for eventual divestiture.

Engineering Plastics District Sales Manager, 1982 - 1985

Marketing Representative, 1979 - 1981

Automotive located in Detroit, responsible for engineering plastics new business generation at General Motors.
Developed $5 million per year new business in nylon and acetal resins.

Marketing Representative, 1978 - 1979

Grew nylon, acetal and polyester resins business by 15% covering the regions; New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Process and Quality Control Engineer, Textile Fibers Nylon, Seaford, DE, 1972 - 1977

United States Air Force, Captain, 1969 - 1972

Credentials

Undergraduate degree in Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and a MBA graduate degree specializing in Marketing and Finance from the University of Delaware.