Product Manager

• Jan 2022 - Present

As a product manager my responsibility is to drive the PD strategy to support the business growth and to achieve the targets set in business development plan, understand consumer needs, current market trends, and position of competitors to achieve an edge in market competition, to secure and maintain profitable product portfolio. I am also responsible for initiating research plan, assess innovation road map in the context of business development strategies and accomplish new and innovative product development for the future growth opportunities in Flexible Coating business. Show less

Senior Scientist

• Mar 2021 - Dec 2021

- Develop high optical performance, flexible, stretchable and foldable materials as functional coatings having application in functional surfaces, devices and light-weight opto-electronic devices- Project lead and develop cutting edge customer centred materials for coating application- Product management of FleXHC family products- Communicating and co-ordinating internal and external flex related product development project and delivery the milestone in time - Upscaling product/process from lab to pilot plant Show less

Covid Test Centre Stuff Co-ordinator

• Jan 2021 - Feb 2021

Senior Polymer Scientist

• Jan 2017 - Nov 2020

•Project/Product governance, risk and issue managements and product development within the research and development sectors•Leading R&D and innovation project dedicated for new polymer/composite product development for PU applications•Providing operational and technical level guidance in manufacturing polymer products based on the established technology in coordination with the client’s on-site facilities.•Decision maker on final and optimized process methodologies to achieve targeted product•Advancing the new technical product development activities in-line with the global regulations and compliance issues•Technical project management and product governance following standard QA protocols•Test result analysis, meaningful data processing and reporting to the management•Providing technical guidance and training to co-workers to address the technical challenges effectively•Support the product development through process configuration management, market analysis and life cycle analysis•Working closely with QC and QA management teams throughout the development phase•On-time product delivery through properly designed stage-gate approach•Working in close collaboration with business development and marketing teams to assess the project development and take precautionary measures to streamline the project tasks and deliverables•Provide technical support for customer trials through internal protocols development, risk mitigation and process parameters optimisation;•Timely development of robust and proven process related protocols to achieve successful final products in the form of deliverable according to specifications to satisfy internal and external requests; Show less

Polymer Scientist

• Sep 2014 - Jan 2017

• Synthetic methodology development and lab scale process optimisation through product analysis;• Plan and report workplan (Project charter) to meet business requirements and assist line manager in associated tasks;• Achieve project goals within specific timeframe through methodical DoE approach;• Draw robust scientific conclusions from experiments and utilize the obtained results/findings to further develop future workplan, keep documentation and produce reports of full experimental details;• Propose new ideas and avenues of R&D to management team, to drive work programmes towards company’s R&D strategies;• Deliver work plan in a rigorous and timely manner against agreed timelines, including full communication and reporting; Show less

R&D Research Scientist

• Jun 2012 - Sep 2014

Materials development, processing, testing, validation and formulation • Develop technologically advanced new polymer materials for flexible foam, elastomers, PU coatings • Leading material testing and analysis lab for quality verification, validation and property optimisation through process improvement and parameters altercation; • Elastomers and coating formulation development to achieve customer specific and application oriented tailored final materials properties; • Create product innovation idea and scout new opportunities to generate R&D funding from internal and external stakeholders and project partners, respectively • Initiate project charter/Gantt-chart by pinning down time-dependent deliverable and stage-gate approaches, where necessary; • Provide necessary training to project team members to ensure individual task has been delegated to capable person • Keeping records of project data, communication information and report to higher management to ensure project is on right track • Develop and maintain a sustainable raw materials supply chain access to support manufacturing team and establish QA/QC protocols for supplied raw materials; • Supervise masters students, technologist in different projects Show less

Postdoctoral Fellow (Polymer chemist)

• Oct 2010 - Jun 2012

- Fabrication of functional polymeric materials concerning their optical, electrical, mechanical and thermal properties in thin film as well as bulk morphologies using several polymerization techniques (such as Emulsion, Free Radical, ATR and Anionic)- Development of nanostructured polymers and polymer based nanocomposites- Multifunctional Polymer nanocomposites for thin film coating

PHD Researcher (Polymer)

• Apr 2007 - Oct 2010

- Synthesis of polystyrene-polybutadiene-polymethylmethacrylate based thermoplastic elastomers. Macroscopic, microscopic and the mechanical properties were investigated.-Block copolymer composite formulation development and component modification to ensure better compatibility between materials phase boundaries. Structure-property investigation of newly developed materials;

MSc Student (Macromolecular Chemistry)

• May 2004 - Aug 2006