PHILIP STRONG

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Chicago, IL 60616

EXPERIENCE

Ingredion Inc. - Westchester, IL Feb 2001 – current Sr. Industrial Applications Specialist 2009 – current

Manage the industrial applications intern program for last 5 years.

Manage trial equipment fleet -$160,000 - $200,000/year (repair, purchase, logistics) to support new business opportunities for last 3 years. Manage relationships with outside equipment vendors.

Manage TAPPI lab, and part time support staff.

Support research and development efforts and new method development. Associate Manager, Technical Sales and Service 2007–2009

Sales and technical support in the mid Atlantic region.

Drive new sales and support ongoing business in Paper, Corrugating, and Personal Care. Associate Technical Service Manager, Industrial Sales 2004–2007

Support new product customer trials and customer application issues.

US and Canada support for corrugating, paper, and industrial customers. Industrial Applications Specialist 2001–2004

Provide analytical lab support and field support for customer issues. IBM Semiconductor Fabrication – Essex Junction, VT May 2000 – Feb 2001

Served as liaison between manufacturing and engineering: Engineering Built In (EBI).

General product/process evaluation as well as first line call for all manufacturing anomalies and process defects to determine disposition of tools and product lots, assessed via statistical process control, optimizing production line productivity

PATENTS AND ASSOCIATIONS

US Patent No. 7,011,729 – Starch and fiber for paper making process...

Board Member – South Side Hackerspace: Chicago 2015-17, member since 2013

Member – State Microscopy Society of Illinois since 2009

Member – Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry since 1998 EDUCATION / SUCCESSES / CASE STUDIES

In general, my job is receiving a problem, assessing what analytical tools will be most valuable to gain insight into the issue, performing analysis, generating an action plan, and then implementing a solution.

State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry May 2001

B.S. in Paper Science and Engineering

Project management and field commissioning and start up of Continuous Enzyme Starch Conversion cooking system in Mogi Gaucu, Brazil– Resulted in 60 million lbs of annual starch business across multiple paper mills.

Generation of 15 million annual lbs of new starch business through wet end spray application technology. Generated and executed trial design of experiment and also lead technical and sales teams, as well as contributing to the design and implementation of the production system. This application eliminated 20 tons of scrap per month for the paper mill.

Development and trouble shooting of reactive extrusion process for the creation of starch based bio- polymers, including scale up from lab to production runs and final material characterization.

Development and application work from lab to scale up for dust suppression project in mining and mining transport fields.

SKILLS

General/Organic/Carbohydrate Chemistry, Material Science, Rheology, Mechanics

Polarized Light Microscopy, Test Method Development, Data Analysis, Problem Solving

Micro-controllers, Rapid Prototyping, Python programming

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