Experience

PLZ Corp

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• R&D Chemist I

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  • Plan and develop new aerosol and liquid formulations• Reformulate products and improved manufacturing processes due to potential regulation changes• Develop and publish raw material and finished good product specifications through a NPD formula database• Utilize various SAP transactions to view bill of materials, check raw material statuses, and review product specifications to help with product formulations• Trained chemists at the Chino, California facility to use SAP• Maintain documented laboratory experiments in R&D laboratory notebooks• Comply with R&D SOP’s and write technical reports• Collaborate with senior chemists to source and evaluate new chemicals and packaging components• Continue to research and maintain a working knowledge of industry and product trends that support new product development• Comply with company safety requirements by assuring that the lab handling of all chemicals is done correctly• Work with sales and cross functional teams in concept development, prototype development and evaluation against benchmark products, label claims and final product selection Show less

• Senior R&D Laboratory Technician

  • Sep 2017 - Apr 2022

  • Assisted senior scientists in evaluating products and update formula database • Supported production through analyzing incoming raw materials and production waste (solvents, oils, surfactants and other chemicals) by using the appropriate quality control laboratory equipment: Gas Chromatography, Karl Fisher titrations, and density apparatus • Analyzed the incoming propellants and blends, and release for production through SAP



Nalco Water, An Ecolab Company

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• R&D Laboratory Technician

  • Aug 2016 - Jul 2017

  • Prepared new mineral extracting products as directed by senior researchers • Conducted performance measurements of the new products • Participated in safety risk assessments on new procedures and equipment • Prepared mineral samples for XRF analysis independently • Prepared new mineral extracting products as directed by senior researchers • Conducted performance measurements of the new products • Participated in safety risk assessments on new procedures and equipment • Prepared mineral samples for XRF analysis independently