Engineer Manager

DALE ADDISON GROVE

DALE

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Phone: 406-***-****; Cell Phone: 419-***-****

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SUMMARY

Driven PhD Chemical Engineer with over 19 years of successful product/process

development and launches. Expertise in filtration, composites, gypsum facers, coatings,

long fiber thermoplastic, polymer extrusion, molding, and lamination. Engineering skills

in sourcing/specifying/scaling new equipment in the wet-lay and coating areas. Previous

management and project management experience. Additional skills include business case

writing including ROI and cost calculations, four patents with others pending, numerous

papers including one book chapter on composite processing, and a six sigma black belt.

An energetic problem solver with flexible, future oriented, visionary qualities that

consistently meets deadlines and exceeds expectations.

EXPERIENCE

Resodyn: Senior Material Engineer (Butte, MT 7/09 to present)

• Working in think tank environment to solve SBIR funded programs.

• Presently working on advanced coating effects.

Consultant (5/09 to 7/09) --- Performed some consultant work.

Johns Manville: Waterville Technical Manager (Waterville, OH 2/07-5/09)

• Formulated additives which bolstered filtration efficiency 1 to 2 MERV ratings.

• Created high dust capacity media that achieved dust holding greater than 100

grams.

• Designed a ceiling facer by adjusting glass fiber ratios opacity.

• Designed a spray process to evenly supply coatings across wide widths.

• Greatly improved the safety of Johns Manville pilot line by leading a team that

put in new safety equipment, and that wrote standard operating procedures, job

safety procedures, and hazard energy control procedures, accompanied by training

documentation.

• Supervised three employees.

Owens Corning (9/96-2/07)

=>Product Developer/Technical Marketing Manager (Granville, OH 4/03-2/07)

• Executed lightning fast (May to July 1st) development of gypsum facers by

finding ways around existing patents, finding toll coaters, buying raw

materials, and provided acrylic/mineral/aqueous formulation detail to a toll

coater.

• Located/scaled-up 4 toll coaters with the help of purchasing and another engineer.

• Assisted in sourcing, specifying, and scaling up a 50+ million dollar coating line.

• Wrote gypsum facer patent application.

Served as interim leader of the Veil Technologies group. Led group of four and

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reviewed which patent applications to pursue.

=>Senior R&D Engineer (Apeldoorn, Netherlands 1/02 – 4/03)

• International Assignment --- learned basic Dutch.

• Supported on-going ceiling sales with technical servicing of defects, paint issues.

• Consulted in the design of a specialty 3-meter wide wet-lay line in Apeldoorn.

• Wrote several patent applications in the area of decorative-structured veils.

=>Senior R&D Engineer (Granville, OH 6/01 – 12/01)

• Wrote business cases for many early initiatives including cement backerboards,

insulation facers, wood flooring, truck liners, headliners, and others..

• Wrote patent application for cement backerboard work.

=>Senior R&D Decillion Engineer (Granville, OH 6/00 – 6/01) {OC/Geon JV)

• Bonded Twintex (PP/glass) to PVC with a PVC/glass nonwoven compatibilizer.

• Discovered a method to compression mold PVC/glass nonwovens.

• Started patent investigation on right to practice.

• Developed cost structures for Decillion primary and secondary processed grades.

=>Technical Systems Expert/Senior Scientist (Aiken, SC 9/96-6/00)

• Led a team to reduce wrinkle defects resulting in efficiencies increasing by 5%.

• Part of a team that sourced and specified the Danville IKO wet-lay mat line.

• Led a team that improved the stability of a modified urea-formaldehyde binder.

• Resolved many internal mat/roofing issues in a technical service capacity.

Azdel Inc.: Product Development Engineer (Shelby, NC 5/95-9/96)

• Improved QC sampling system which improved material efficiencies over 2%.

• Scaled up short chop fiber products and worked on early headliner SuperLite

development by finding compatibilizing films for bonding purposes.

LNP Engineering Plastics: Verton Product Dev. Engineer/Leader (10/89-5/95

• Supervised 5 people as team leader.

• Developed polypropylene and polyphthalamide long glass fiber thermoplastic

grades.

• Developed stainless steel grades for anti-static applications.

• Doubled production rates with propriety equipment improvements.

• Developments have lead to long term multi-millions dollars of sales for LNP.

EDUCATION

• PhD in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,

GA; Minor: Mathematics. Overall GPA: 3.9.

• MS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,

GA; Thesis Topic on Carbon Fibers. GPA 3.6.

• BS in Chemical Engineering from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA; Overall

GPA: 3.6.

COURSES

• American Management Association, Management Skills and Techniques for New

Supervisors.

• Web Handling and Converting

• Six Sigma Black Belt Certified (3/2006)

• Johns Manville Supervisor Training (2007)

SOCIETIES --- Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE)

• Chaired the Composite Division (2003-2005) which represents >900 members.

• Grew membership by 10% and increased divisional funds by 30% as Chair.

• Councilor of the Composite Division (2006 to present)

• Divisions Committee Chair (2008-2009)

• Co-Chairing Governance Committee

• Led and organized Composite LFT Tutorial Conference

AWARDS

• Honored Service Member of SPE (May 2008) --- SPE point system reward for the

long and successful work performed on behalf of the society.

• Owens Corning Pinnacle Customer Award Q2 2005 --- Awarded due to work

with Georgia Pacific

• Owens Corning Slater Award (July 2004) --- An exclusive award recognizing the

top Owens Corning R&D efforts.

• Outstanding Composite Division Award of SPE (Chair: 2003-2005) --- SPE

Award recognizing the best Divisions within SPE.

• Owens Corning’s Director’s Cup Award (Late 2003) --- An award recognizing

early Georgia Pacific developments.

• LNP’s R&D Team of the Year, 1992 --- This award recognizing the best LNP

R&D team. It was for new product formulations developed by the Verton team.

• Southeastern SPE Student Paper Winner, 1989 --- An award for one of the early

papers that was completed..

• Sigma Xi Award on Master’s Thesis --- Georgia Tech award

• Phi Eta Sigma Freshman Honorary Society --- Lehigh University award

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