Composite, Plastic, and Rubber Characterization and Testing Expert

Technical Consultant #2087

Polymeric Engineering

Polymeric engineering materials (plastics), including rubbers, adhesives, sandwiches, and fibers
Composite materials testing.
Materials for chemical mechanical polishing (CMP)
Additive Manufacturing (3D printing)

Laboratory Management

Undisclosed Company, Manufacturing, Research & Development, Senior Engineer, 2010 - Present

Support Air Craft Operations by reducing cost, and flow time, and improving product quality through development, implementation, and continuous improvement of manufacturing equipment, tools and processes.
Manufacturing, research and development focal person for additive manufacturing, Six Sigma, metrology, polymeric engineering materials, and rubbers.
Instructor and mentor in Six Sigma course.
Consulted in additive manufacturing by several commercial aircraft programs.
Supports manufacturing aircrafts by reducing cost, and flow time, and improving product quality through development, implementation, and continuous improvement of manufacturing equipment, tools and processes.
Led various projects in following areas: elastomeric tooling for fabrication of composite parts; 3D printing of parts; application of RTLS (active and passive tags) to composite material part fabrication and raw material storage; quality improvement and defect reduction in area of composite materials parts; qualification and introduction to manufacturing shops of new equipment; designed equipment for accurate and higher resolution measurement of rotor blade geometry.

Dow Chemical Company, (Rohm and Haas), Newark, DE, Senior Scientist, 2003 - 2009

Subject matter expert in material characterization and qualification, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of test data (for production, raw material quality, process and product improvement, patent attorney).
Principal investigator of projects focused on detecting property-performance correlation.
Managed project to build material property data base of major products.
Test method development and customization.
Determination of structure-processing-property relationship.
Managed program conducted to test company's products and build material property data base.
Responsible for physical-mechanical characterization of new raw materials for one product worth $500 million in sales.
Introduced new test methods to reduce testing time, increase accuracy and precision.
Laboratory Manager: planned work and supervised technical personnel.
Training of technical personnel.
Writing of company lab procedures.
Determination of structure-processing-property relationship.

University of Delaware, Center - Composite Materials, Newark, DE, Research Engineer, 1996 - 2003

Principal investigator and team member on various research and development projects in areas of materials, testing, processing, and design for government and industry (various companies, i.e., Sikorsky, Gore, Lyondell-Basell, Solectria, Webcore and DuPont-Hardcore Composites).
Operated and managed research programs for government and industry in areas of materials, testing, processing and design.
Investigations of projects focused on detecting property-performance correlation.
Written and presented technical proposal and estimates to win new work.

Academia Activity, 1987 - 1996

As a Researcher and Development Engineer for various organizations, industries and government, working on site at the following locations; Rome, Naples, Salerno, Italy and areas in the U.S.
Provided investigation on various research and development projects in areas of materials, testing, processing, and design, including proposal writing.

Credentials

Industry Advisor for University of Delaware Senior Design Project: Design, analysis, fabrication and testing of composite wakeboard
Annual SAMPE University Research Symposium, Poster Contest, University of Delaware
National and International Instructor: Six Sigma Certified Green Belt, and Black Belt Training
Administering courses for University of Delaware, Dow Chemical Company, Boeing
Laboratory tests and result analysis training for Technicians and Engineers
Physical and mechanical testing of composite materials and polymers. Course designed for graduates and undergraduates
Instructor on engineering plastics: Technologies of Materials for graduate students, Faculty of Architecture, (Rated best instructor by the students), Italy
Instructor at Faculty of Engineering, Materials Technologies, Italy

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Academic and Professional Affiliations

Publications

Author and Co-Author

Two book chapters (Engineering Plastics and Design)
45 papers: Physical-mechanical material characterization, design, and processing.

Patents