Paint and Materials Analytical Chemist Consultant Specializing in Laboratory Quality Systems

Technical Consultant #521

Paint and polymer analysis and testing.
Measurement of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) in paints and related materials.
Laboratory certification.
Improving laboratory measurement results.
Laboratory information management systems (LIMS).
Managing and standardizing pharmaceutical stability testing.
Administrative support.
Project management.
Quality management and continuous improvement.
Streamlining laboratory operations.
Pharmaceutical analytical and Quality Control (QC) laboratories.

Expert Witness

Provided Expert Witness support for an insurance claim involving paint coatings and polymers.

Independent Consultant, 1994 - Present

Assignments have included setting up a quality system for a small paint company, expert witness support and insurance claims support involving coatings and polymers, laboratory certification for a pharmaceutical firm, team leader on an ANDA project.
Director and instructor in short courses in VOCs and HAPs in paint and other products, and problem solving in chemical analysis.

The CECON Group, Inc., Wilmington, DE, Vice President, 1995 - Present

Administration and management of consulting assignments in all aspects of science and engineering, with a specialty in pharmaceuticals and coatings.

The DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co., Wilmington, DE, Associate Director, 1991 - 1994

Organized and led a project to optimize, standardize and computerize stability operations throughout DuPont Merck to streamline company development and manufacturing analytical operations and reduce operating costs by $3.5 million per year.

E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, DE and Philadelphia, PA , 1962 - 1991

Senior Research Associate

Designed and implemented one of the first research and development LIMS applications in DuPont.
Organized Corporate LIMS resources throughout DuPont.
Led department-wide measurement quality improvement project for paints and polymers.
Upgraded department's methods management system.
Co-developed DuPont method management "best practice."
Authored and co-authored some of the VOC methods now mandated by EPA for paint.
Organized an international symposium on the analysis of paint and related materials and edited a book based on it.

Quality Manager

Established quality systems and worked with top management in marketing, manufacturing, research and development,finance and international to identify and reduce $50-$100 million in costs associated with poor quality in a $2 billion department.
Reduced out of specification shipments 10 fold.
Set up and managed systems to teach, measure and manage quality performance in marketing, manufacturing and research and development primarily in paints, polymers and fabricated products.

Research Supervisor

Managed large analytical and physical measurement group for paints and polymers.
Doubled output and reduced turnaround times without increasing budget.

Staff Chemist

Research Chemist

First in company to apply polarography, recording titrimetry, ion selective electrodes, thin layer chromatography, and atomic absorption spectroscopy to paint problems.

Academic and Professional Affiliations

ASTM International - D01, Paints and related materials
American Chemical Society - Past Chairman of 5000 member Section
Founder of Chemical Consultants Network - the first organization for consultants in ACS

Publications

W. C. Golton, Editor, "Analysis of Paints and Related Materials: Current Techniques for Solving Coatings Problems" ASTM STP #1119