Industrial Chemist - Engineer

Technical Consultant #735

Organosilicones: surfactants, emulsions, foams, antifoams, silane coupling agents.
Water soluble polymers, gums and resins, poly (ethylene oxide), polyethylene glycol, polyacrylamide.
Colloid and surface chemistry: stability of dispersions, wetting and spreading phenomena, suspensions and emulsions, clays, paint and coatings, personal care, cosmetics.
Flocculating agents.
Applied rheology and designed product flow behavior, rheology modification of non-aqueous media.
Lubricants.
Medical technology.
Chemical product litigation/product liability analysis/personal injury.
Expanding technology transfer at the industrial-academic interface.

New Product Development:

Creative Problem Solving in the formulation, optimization and testing of new and existing consumer and industrial products.
Water soluble polymers, rheology, surface and interfacial chemistry, surface active agents, foams, emulsions, antifoams, lubricants, flocculants, and dispersions.

Product Liability Analysis:

Household and industrial products: Safety in design, formulations, packaging and handling.
Fires and Explosions: Flammable liquids and gases; flammable fabrics.
Properties and safe handling of hazardous materials and waste, materials science behavior/properties, codes and standards analysis (ASTM, ANSI, OSHA, UL).

Technical and product experience includes, but is not limited to:

Fires and Explosions: cause and origin; aerosols, drain cleaners, primer/sealers, furnaces, ovens, tire inflators, spontaneous combustion, linseed oil, liquefied gases, lacquers and thinners, solvents, gasoline, fire extinguishers and welding.

Chemicals

Acids, bases, chlorinated solvents, diesel fuel, diisocyanates, alcohols, formaldehyde, hydrocarbons, hydrogen sulfide, mercaptans, naphtha, nitrosamines, potassium/ sodium hydroxide, sulfuric acid, vinyl acetate.

Products

Adhesives, air fresheners, glues, insecticides, fuels, paints, pesticides, roach sprays, stain, gasoline, windshield washer fluids, brandy.

Chemical Burns

Toxic Exposures

Allergic sensitivity, adverse chemical reactions, diesel fume exhaust, enzymes, combustion toxicology, industrial chemicals, and household products.

Undisclosed Company, President, 1992 - Present

Consultation to attorneys in product liability analysis and chemical safety issues.
Review and analysis of over 250 product liability cases.
Consultation on intellectual property matters including patent infringement cases.
Consultation to major chemical and medical products corporations for new product development.
Filed over 18 EPA applications for pesticide registration.
Science and medical writer.
Journalist for Chemical Market Reporter.
Skilled information research; internet and people networking, PC/Mac literate.

Union Carbide Corporation, (2 sites) NY, Development Scientist, 1973 - 1992

Provided technical consultation to hundreds of multinational industrial and consumer-oriented companies.
Responsible for world-wide technical support of POLYOXR (polyethylene oxide).
Water-Soluble Resins.
Directed development of new poly (acrylamide) polymer and poly (ethylene oxide) flocculants for industrial clay dispersions including clays, taconite ore and phosphatic slimes.

Project Scientist, 1973 - 1979

Conceived and patented self-dispersing and transient silicone antifoams.
Conducted research on fuel combustion; developed silicone additives for increasing fuel combustion efficiency.
Consulted on effect of silicone surfactants as flame retardants for polyurethane foam.

Research Engineer, 1966 - 1973

Conducted applied research in silicone surface active agents.
Enhanced silicone emulsion stability.
Assembled and classified mathematical models of liquid flow behavior.
Consultant to major brick companies in development of aqueous-based brick lubricants.
Developed "Light Water" type aqueous film-forming fire-fighting foam widely used by military and civilians for airplane crash fires.

Credentials

FRSC, CChem: Chartered Chemist and Fellow - Royal Society of Chemistry (London)
FAIC, CPC: Certified Professional Chemist and Fellow - American Institute of Chemists, National Certification Commission in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
FAIC, CChE: Certified Professional Chemical Engineer and Fellow - American Institute of Chemists, National Certification Commission in Chemistry and Chemical Eng.
FACFE, BCFE: Fellow and Board Certified Forensic Examiner, American College of Forensic Examiners, Certified in Chemical Engineering. Certified in pain management.
Burner design, combustion in fired heaters; flare design and operation, furnace operation, John Zink Burner School.
Fundamentals of Textiles, Clemson University

Academic and Professional Affiliations

Director, Executive Board - Assoc. of Consulting Chemists and Chem. Engineers
American Chemical Society - Div. of Colloid and Surface Chemistry
American Society for Testing and Materials - Member of 14 standards-making committees.
National Association of Science Writers, American Medical Writers Association

Awards

Publications and Patents

Author of 4 books, 38 publications in peer reviewed scientific/engineering journals, and 25 invited seminars.
20 patents.