Employment Objective:
I am seeking a dynamic hands-on product development or manufacturing position that utilizes my education and experience in materials science.
Employment:
Jan. /14 - Present (hourly), Engineer, SRI International
• Left California because of the high cost of living and to be closer to family
• Consulting on polymer coating formulations
• Advising (root cause analysis) on the development of extruded and calendered films
• Traveling to subcontractor site for web coating production runs
Jan. /07 – Jan. /14, Engineer, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025
• Developing, formulating, and processing of polymer composites for thin films and coatings for contracted clients
• Extrusion (5-20 mil films), calendering, and thermoforming of Ethylene based (neat and modified) materials and high temperature engineered plastics (PEI, PES, and PSU)
• Led MIL-STD environmental testing task and offsite pilot plant web coating process (Pro-face HMI controlled equipment) task
• Performed as consultant for subcontractor film (7-20 mils) extrusion, embossing, and calendering task
• Optimization of processes and products with Design of Experiments (controlled experiments)
• Ceramic and material processing development with attritors (stirred ball-mills), jet mill, cross beater mill, and thermal presses
• Designed test fixtures and performed tests (ASTM and MIL-STD) to evaluate accelerated environmental effects on product properties
• Surface treatment and coating of polymer, steel, and Aluminum products
• Research of adhesives, Acrylic and Silicone based pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA), and associated primer systems
• Composed portions of monthly/quarterly/yearly reports and presentation
• Experienced with SEM, Mark-10 adhesion test stand, ESPEC temperature./humidity chamber, Brabender D6/2 compounder (flex-lip and cord dies), MOCON Permatran WVTR system, Atlas Solar simulator, and Quickline 10 Thermal Conductivity Tester
• Use of heat sealers, gold coater sputtering system, and vacuum systems
• Writing standard operating procedures, customer manuals, and program related documents
• Lab equipment assembly and maintenance, tracked institute and government property
• Inventory control and acquiring samples from material suppliers (polymers, additives, pigments, stabilizers, extenders) for product development trials
• Scheduling, packaging, and shipping products and Hazardous materials
• Acquiring quotes for proposals and ordering materials/chemicals for project work
• Improved abrasion resistance of products by 50 percent (modified Taber tests)
• Increased product production volume and reduced production time by 20 percent
June /03- Mar. /06, Engineer Trainee, Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433
• Deposited high temperature superconducting (HTS) thin films with pulsed laser deposition (PLD) system
• Researched properties of multi-layered Yttria/YBCO thin films
• Characterized low angle grain boundary effects on thin films
• Made multilayer thin films with nano-particle inclusions to improve high-field properties
• Operated sputtering system to apply Silver contacts to samples
• Performed critical current and resistive Tc tests with LabVIEW software
• Ran X-ray diffraction measurements on films and ...
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