Engineering Chemical

Alaa Alharizah

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Phone:973-***-**** Objective

A motivated professional with extensive hands on experience in the

process modification, product scale up, and manufacturing support of

functional polymers in the specialty chemical industry, seeking an

engineering position to enhance and expand my knowledge and skill set.

Experience

09/09- Present Ashland Specialty Ingredients chemicals

Wayne, NJ

(Scientist 1)

. Developed and optimized viable chemical processes for the purpose of

transferring the discovery procedures to commercial products.

. Enhanced the properties and performance of commercial products through

chemical modification.

. Effectively interacted and communicated with different R&D departments,

business units, sites, manufacturing plants, and customers to provide

technical support and assistance.

. Utilized literature and patent search engines to support ongoing

research.

. Hands-on experience with maintaining and employing characterization

instruments and techniques such as GC, FT-IR and Brookfield viscometers.

. Proficient with writing scientific reports, presentations, technical

documents and lab notebooks.

. Maintained lab equipment in good working condition as well as, a safe lab

environment.

. Supervised daily research efforts of summer lab interns to meet project

objectives.

Summer 2008 BioMEMs Bioengineering Summer Institute, NJIT

Newark, NJ

(Research Assistant)

. Designed and fabricated Biomems alcohol meter devices using modified

semiconductor device fabrication technologies to determine the blood's

alcohol percentage.

. Developed multi-disciplinary research skills on system and fabrication

design of innovative lab-on-a-chip integrated biomedical device

involving technical, feasibility, and device performance.

. Hands-on experience with soft lithography techniques and chemical

etching for micro- fluidic systems.

Education

MS in Chemical Engineering May

2011

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ

BS in Chemical Engineering

May 2009

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Newark, NJ

LABORATORY Skills and insyrumentations

Organic synthesis, GC, FT-IR, pH, wet Chemistry techniques, relative and

Brookfield viscosity, rotary evaporator; spray dryer, lyophilization, X-

ray lithography, chemical etching and photolithography.

Computer Skills

MathCAD, Mat Lab, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft office, Polymath 6.0, and

Aspen 3.0.

Organizations

Tau Beta Pi (Eng Honor Society), Omega Chi Epsilon (Chemical Engineering

Honor Society), American Institute of

Chemical Engineers, Junior Representative 2007-2008 & Highlanders Soccer

Club.

Honors &Awards

NJIT Dean List, National Dean & Chemical Engineering Merit Award.

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