Experience

Glass Coatings & Concepts (GCC)

• United States
• Glass, Ceramics and Concrete Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President & General Manager

  • May 2020 - Present

  https://www.gcconcepts.com/



Ferro Corporation

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Global R&D Director, Color Solutions

  • Feb 2013 - May 2019

  • Leading global R&D teams in Ferro’s Pigments, Surface Finishing Oxides, and Metal Powders Businesses.• Regional R&D Director in North America, Tsukuba Japan, and Suzhou China in Ferro’s Glass Systems, Dielectric Materials, and Electronic Packaging Materials.• Team of 100+- scientists, engineers, and technicians in Ferro’s Performance Materials Division.• Organic Growth: Lead respective global and regional R&D teams to identify new opportunities, prioritize, develop, and commercialize saleable products aligned with the businesses to deliver organic growth project revenue.• Inorganic Growth: Support Corporate business acquisition and divestiture strategies. Provide technology, patent, process, product, market assessment, and integration support for geographic expansion, bolt-on acquisition, and/or other identified opportunities.

• Global Technology Director, Glass Systems

  • Nov 2009 - Feb 2013

  • Leading global research and applied technology team of 50+- scientists, engineers, and technicians in Ferro’s Electronics, Color, and Glass Performance Materials Division. Establish strategies, common goals, and capital plan coordinated with business management. Build, mentor, and coach technical teams.• Responsible to develop new materials, processes, and applications for automotive, architectural, appliance, electronics, solar, MEMS, display panel, and other new businesses. Achieve growth targets and improve new product vitality index. Ensure new materials are environmentally friendly and meet governmental regulations.  Complete transfer of new materials to production, set specifications, provide QC, and technical customer service through stage-gate commercialization process. Provide trouble shooting for existing products and custom modification for evolutionary products.• Strengthen research and patent portfolios.

• Global Technology Manager, Glass Systems

  • Sep 2002 - Nov 2009

  • Leading global research and product development team of 40+ scientists, engineers, and technicians in US, Germany, France, and Japan for Ferro's Glass coatings business. Contributions as “hands on” scientist with global managerial responsibilities. Partnership with external Nano-technology company to launch new commercial products.• Core competencies in glass science, glass coatings, particle engineering, color science, formulation, and surface application technologies.• Rapid crystallizing glass-ceramic anti-stick automotive coatings, organic and inorganic polymer coatings, lead free glass frits, laser marking materials, energy efficient IR reflecting materials, self cleaning Lotus®, and other functional coatings are main areas of research.• Continuous specialty materials process improvements and global production transfer. Glass melting, solid state mixed metal oxide calcination, particle reduction wet and dry milling, mixing, and dispersion technologies. New thermoplastic and room temperature polymer processing for organic coating technologies.• Support supply chain improvements, inventory reduction, and resolve production problems.• Work with purchasing group to qualify new raw material cost reductions.

• Director Glass Development

  • Apr 1999 - Sep 2002

  • Responsible for US Glass R&D group to develop new chemistries, and technologies..• Organize global glass technology team meetings in Germany, France, Japan and US. • Core business team member exploring and validating growth potential for Glass Division. Focusing on innovative technologies and applications with selected key customers. Defining clear cut strategies for all businesses. Explore cross-divisional and cross-site synergy's. Upgrade collective intelligence and enhance entrepreneurship.• Continue to develop next generation glass-ceramic enamels for higher chemical durability, higher reactivity, lower melting, and improved silver bleed through resistance.



Cerdec Corporation

• Manager Glass Development

  • Jan 1997 - Apr 1999

  • Completed CITP- 2 year Cerdec International Training Program for management.• Chair Glass R&D and Marketing meetings for project reviews.• Global R&D Anti-stick Enamel Team collaboration and technology transfer. New product line launched with responsibility for Glass R&D in Washington to provide global technical support for critical frit and seed material development, production, and QC. Many systems developed, approved, and commercialized in US, Europe, and Far East. Significant global sales and market share gains and patents developed• Responsible for all US Glass R&D Project Management and ISO9000 documentation. Develop, maintain, and update glass enamel QS9000 FEMA's.



Cerdec Corporation - Drakenfeld Products

• Staff Scientist

  • Sep 1994 - Jan 1997

  • Researcher and Co-leader in Automotive Anti-stick Enamel program• Research Project Leader for Inorganic Polymer materials• Managed and worked with outside research contracts • Developed frits and enamels for Hollow ware and Plasma Display Panel emerging markets• Other novel lead-free frit chemistry research conducted• Design of Experiments used in all research projects



GE

• United States
• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Materials Scientist

  • Sep 1992 - Sep 1994

  • Thin Films technology team member Developed improved high temperature stress measurement techniques for multilayer IR reflecting thin films . Quantifying stresses and characterizing structure in dielectric thin films deposited on quartz by LPCVD and sputtering. Lead team addressing new HIR product strength degradation. Investigations of production reactor lamp non-passive failures Managed 1994 global characterization contract.• Cross functional glass science and stress analysis expertise support of: High Speed Finishing program new equipment glass sealing design. Stress Analysis Expert System II designed and installed at Nela.• Competitive product analyses



GE Lighting, a Savant company

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Research Ceramist

  • Jun 1985 - Sep 1992

  • Machine Vision Stress Analysis Expert System I: Investigated technical feasibility, determined business impact, recruited internal plant "customer", completed design/software specifications, selected and contracted vendor, and installed system ahead of schedule• Supported Glass Plant trial runs of new aluminosilicate glass composition, quantified improved glass-metal mismatch stresses.• Supported global ATC glass composition developments to remove lead.• Improved and debugged ABAQUS FEM glass-metal bead seal code.• Glass science and photoelastic stress analysis expertise applied to solve design and manufacturing problems across all glass compositional product lines; significant cost savings and 3 Managerial Awards.• Designed, built, and operated experimental equipment including parallel plate viscometer for glass transition range measurements, burst strength apparatus, and high temperature polarimeter for studying stress relaxation in glass-to-metal seals.• Developed technique of sample sectioning and tangential viewing with integrated light path theory to separate components of glass stress.• Completed viscosity and stress relaxation data for barium and phosphate glasses per contract with Sandia National Laboratories.

• Edison Engineer

  • Jun 1983 - Jun 1985