STEVEN R. SMITH

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Troy, Michigan 48084

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E mail: acgevl@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary: New technology product/process development and commercialization,

specializing in high value added functional thin film coatings for automotive

and industrial applications.

Employment History and

Major Accomplishments:

Research Scientist 2005 December 2013

Henkel Corporation

Madison Heights, Michigan

Project team member responsible for design, testing, and commercialization of next generation

metal pretreatment and thin film coatings for Henkel’s Steel Mills/Coil Coating customer base.

● Technically coordinated domestic trial evaluation of various coil pretreatment/functional

coating technologies targeting current vehicle lightweighting initiatives in the global auto

OEMs, especially those fostering increased use of aluminum and press hardened steels.

● Global team participant in developing environmentally compliant metal passivates and

roll formable paint pretreatments for the consumer electronics, major appliance, and

construction coil markets.

● Contributed regularly to alternative raw material selection/process optimization to

support manufacturing/QC refinement and supplier cost containment activities.

Technical Director 2003 2005

Worwag Coatings, LLC

Lafayette, Indiana

North American technical authority responsible for organizing and supervising product

development and manufacturing support activities of technical staff consisting of chemists,

technicians, and QC/production support personnel.

● Planned, coordinated, and implemented European OEM product technology transfers to

support North American transplant customer base in interior/exterior automotive plastics

and heavy equipment industrial coatings markets.

● Interfaced with sales and technical service staff to define and achieve new product

development and adaptive re design of existing technologies tailored to specific

application/performance demands of various N/A OEM automotive plastics tiers.

Successfully led to generation of $2M worth of annual new sales.

Research Scientist 1995 2003

Akzo Nobel Coatings, Inc.

Troy, Michigan

Product development chemist responsible for design, formulation, and evaluation of novel

high solids and waterborne technologies for automotive, coil, and industrial building product

coating systems.

● Key cross functional team member responsible for the development of new generation

high solids, low temperature cure 1K automotive clearcoats and monocoats.

● Developed VOC compliant metal primers based on various proprietary functional resin

chemistries, resulting in the successful commercialization of new resin products.

● Developed a variety of novel single component thermoplastic and self crosslinking

primer systems for hardboard and cementitious building product substrates.

Product Development Chemist 1984 1988

Sherwin Williams Company

Cleveland, Ohio

Formulations chemist with responsibilities in areas of exterior latex architectural coatings

and universal colorant development, new product test evaluation, and new raw material

test specification.

● Generated extensive performance databases for evaluating alternative resin, pigment,

surfactant, and rheological additive systems in exterior latex house paints.

● Reformulated cost competitive in house line of universal tint based colorants.

Product Development Chemist 1981 1984

Man Gill Chemical Company (now subsidiary of PPG Industries)

Cleveland, Ohio

Formulations chemist responsible for development and testing of metal substrate inorganic

conversion coatings, lubricants, coolers, and cleaners.

Analytical R&D Chemist 1978 1981

Hydro Clear Corporation

Avon Lake, Ohio

Analytical chemist responsible for water analysis, planning and evaluation of pilot studies,

QC of in house manufacturing, and selection and purchasing of laboratory equipment.

Laboratory Technician 1975 1977

Mobil Chemical Company

Cleveland, Ohio

Performed QC and applications testing of electro coat automotive primers as co op

undergraduate student.

Education: B.S. Chemistry, Cleveland State University

M.S. candidate Chemical Engineering, Cleveland State University

M.S. and Ph.D. Macromolecular Science, Case Western Reserve University

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