THAKKAR First Name: DARSHIT

Last Name:

**** ******** **** ******, ******* FL 32771 USA

Email: abqut0@r.postjobfree.com Contact No: 1-734-***-****

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

About 3 years of experience as Research and Development Chemist, more than 5 Years

of experience as a Plastics Consultant, 4 months as Research Assistant, 6 Months as

Production Manager, more than 5 Years of experience as a Plastics Processing Consultant

and Part Time experience as a Sales Representative.

Over 5 years of experience in researching and developing coatings, adhesives, sealants

and impregnation, formulating architectural, automotive, industrial and other consumer

coating, adhesive, sealants, impregnation and surface treatment materials along with the

technical service / support for product promotion / recommendation. Visiting customers

to trouble shoot the problems in production process / processing material.

Over 5 years of experience with plastic raw materials, compounding master-batch,

product manufacturing, processing, trouble shooting, testing and evaluating, etc.

Experience in Formulating Anaerobic Cure, Heat Cure, UV Cure, Moisture Cure and

Thermoset Resins i.e. 1K/2K Epoxies, 1K/2K PU Resins, CA’s, Methacrylate Resins,

Polycure Adhesives and Sealants, Pigmented/Non-Pigmented Coatings, etc.

Experience in Reverse Engineering, Testing & Evaluation of Polymer and Coatings, etc.

Experience operating and handling the testing instruments like OM, SEM, EDX, TGA,

DCA, DSC, DMA, FTIR, ATR-IR, DWS, UV-Vis, UV Curing, etc.

Experience in Operating Plastics Processing / Testing Instruments like Injection Molding

Machine, Extrusion Machine, Blow Molding Machine, UTM, Izod Charpy Impact Tester,

Rotary Abrasion Tester, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

(June 2010 – Current)

Research & Development Chemist

Hernon Manufacturing Inc. (Sanford, FL USA)

Formulating Anaerobic Cure, Heat Cure, UV Cure, Moisture Cure and Thermoset Resins

i.e. 1K/2K Epoxies, 1K/2K PU Resins, CA’s, Methacrylate Resins, Polycure Adhesives

and Sealants, etc.

Technical Sales Support recommending products and troubleshooting the problems.

R&D of the generated development projects / application projects, generating and

working on the in-house projects to improvise the performance of adhesive, coatings and

sealants.

Testing / Characterization of the formulated products, suggesting / testing / formulating

products as per customer’s applications.

Managing files (as per ISO 9001-2008), presenting new and the existing products for

sales to the customers/company, visiting new customers to set the production, etc are the

duties performed for the company along with the research and development.

(April 2008 – September 2008)

Research Assistant

Coating Research Institute (Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti MI USA)

Developing a hardener for the polyurethane prepolymer imparting flexibility to the final

coating which can also withstand wide temperature range.

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THAKKAR First Name: DARSHIT

Last Name:

7220 Cardinal Cove Circle, Sanford FL 32771 USA

Email: abqut0@r.postjobfree.com Contact No: 1-734-***-****

Co-polymers were synthesized using solution polymerization technique. Coatings were

prepared reacting 2K PU and characterized with different testing methods.

Production Engineer (July 2007 - December 2007)

Henu Polymers (Ahmedabad GUJ INDIA)

Supervising the production of the plant (plastic recycling), packaging and dispatch.

Have a good hand in using grinding and pulverizing machines with machine trouble -

shoots. Managing group of workers resulting in better output beneficial to the company

was the primary task.

EDUCATION

Eastern Michigan University (01/2008 – 04/2010)

MS in Polymer and Coatings

LD College of Engineering (08/2003 – 06/2007)

BE/BS in Plastics Technology

UNDERTAKEN PROJECTS & SEMINARS

Aluminum Plastic Composite Panel

Synthesis and Characterization of PU Coating for Aerospace and Roof Coating

Application

Effect of backbone structure on mechanical properties and performance of UV cured

coatings

Reverse Engineering (Testing and Evaluation) of Toothpaste Tube (7 Layers)

Synthesis of Soft Touch Thermoset Poly-Urethane

Design of Experiment: Synthesis of Copolymer keeping Three Factors in Consideration

(Initiator Amount, Temperature and Duration)

Shape Memory Polymer - Novel Suture Material for Medical Application

Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy used in the field of Polymer and Coatings

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy for Coatings

Interpenetrating Network and its Crosslink Density

Aircraft Coating and Coating Defects

Effect of Additives on Polymer Coatings

Durability and Performance of Coating: Delamination and Corrosion

Polyurethane Reactions, Polyether, Silicone/Silane, Plating and Fluoro-Polymers

ACHIEVEMENTS & PARTICIPATION

Poster Presentations at Detroit Society of Coatings Technology Conference

“Moisture cured polyurethane coatings”

“Effect of backbone structure on mechanical properties and performance of UV cured

Coatings”

Obtained First Position in 5th, 7th and 8th Semester, Plastics Technology in L D College

of Engg., Gujarat University

Participated in Technical Festival Competition (LDCE)

Obtained Second Position in Cross Country Racing (LDCE)

Participated in NCC Camp at YMCA, Ahmedabad

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THAKKAR First Name: DARSHIT

Last Name:

7220 Cardinal Cove Circle, Sanford FL 32771 USA

Email: abqut0@r.postjobfree.com Contact No: 1-734-***-****

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

Kaveri Polymers Pvt. Ltd. (ISO 9001:2000) (Manufacturing PVC Fittings)

Manufacturing different kinds of PVC and MPVC pipe fittings by injection molding

machines.

Learned troubleshooting the injection molding machine manufactured product’s defects

i.e. pipe fittings, experience in operating jet printing machines, etc. Finding faults, their

cause and remedies in injection molding machine and manufactured products were the

two primary job functions.

Remica Plastic Machinery Manufacturers (Plastic Machinery Manufacturers)

Gained knowledge in manufacturing different machines for Wire coating, Cable coating,

extrusion, blown plastic films, plastic granules, pipes, etc.

Supervised the operation of different tools for manufacturing machines like lathe

machine, milling machine, different CNC machines, etc.

COMPUTER SKILLS

ISO 9001-2001 Management Software, SAGE PFW ERP for Paints and Coatings

Operating System: MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/XP/Vista/7

Computer Languages: C

Office Applications: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Basic Hardware: Assembling hardware components

LANGUAGES KNOWN

English, Hindi, Gujarati

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