Radha Ambekar

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White Plains, NY 10601, Phone: 979-***-****

Email: accvxm@r.postjobfree.com

KEY STRENGTHS

. Four years of experience in the development of home & personal care

products with special expertise in oral care,

fabric cleaning and surface germicidal chemistries

. Adept in innovation projects - development of new technologies, product

and process development at laboratory, pilot plant & production level,

analysis & recommendation of raw material for effective deployment of

product design & testing, stability studies, competitor product analysis

and consumer panel tests

. Hands on experience in advance project and specification management

CAREER SUMMARY

Nice-Pak Products - A leading manufacturer of wet wipes, Montvale, NJ

Mar 2013 - Aug 2013

Scientist - Formulation development

. Developed alcohol free germicidal wipes with the combination of solvents

and specialty surfactant resulting in significant low streaking on hard

surfaces. Also actively involved in scale up of these wipes.

. Successfully improved existing wipe formulations to accommodate new

applicators without affecting chemical properties and performance of final

product

. Studied compatibility of various germicidal wipe products on vinyl

fabrics, metal surfaces and medical plastics

. Successfully resolved customer issues by working closely with sales and

marketing team

Unilever - World's third-largest consumer goods company

Oct 2007 - May 2010

Research & development executive - Global design center, laundry

Key achievements:

. Successfully obtained an approval of recommended process and product

parameters for various fabric cleaning products from the stakeholders

across the globe resulting in quality & standardized output on country

level

. Successfully developed various laundry formulations and methods to

quantify functional performance of various raw materials

. Worked as an interface between formulation development and processing

delivering cost effective new product by screening technologies, setting

up scale up rules, equipment design and parameters optimization and

managing stakeholders

Work experience:

. Developed global specifications for surfactants, builder,

antiredeposition agents, bleach, visual cues, antifoam & colorants etc. as

part of global simplification program

. Developed material plans for product design projects which involved

vigorous exercise of mapping local countries on raw materials against the

global specifications

. Worked at manufacturing facilities and developed expertise in raw

material handling, continuous and batch process, microstructure

characterization, drying equipments, mixers, control variables

optimization, PLC system, cost effective processing routes and final

product quality

. Experienced with air-liquid heat transfer, slurry flow, atomization,

granulation and evaporation in spray drying operation. Also developed zero

phosphate detergent formulation utilizing these skills.

. Worked in differential technology group to develop hand and machine wash

detergent formulation for blind win on tough oily stains and low foam

maintaining effective cleaning

. Consolidated & analyzed Unilever & competitor products on raw material

scale to identify discrepancies

. Coordinated raw material capability group & took over surfactants

expertise from Vlaardingen, Netherlands research & development center

Galaxy Surfactants - A leading manufacturer of surfactants, India

Sep 2006 - Oct 2007

Formulator - research and development

. Synthesized surfactants on lab scale and developed technical know-how of

the subject

. A key role in establishing application laboratory for evaluation of

different surfactants in oral & personal care products

. Recommended replacement of existing surfactants with milder ones for oral

care products resulted in reduction in zein score of the formulations.

This has been successfully accepted by Unilever & currently on in market

. Improved foam of personal care formulations for different customers

Godrej Industries Limited - India's leading manufacturer of oleochemicals

May 2005 - Jun 2005

Intern

. Successfully optimized batch time of fat-splitting process for harden

crude palm stearin & rapeseed oil resulting in reduced batch time & higher

yield

EDUCATION

Master of Science in chemical engineering

Dec

2012

The City College of The City University of New York

Project: equilibrium conditions of hydrate-forming pickering emulsions

. Studied kinetics of hydrate formation with differential scanning

calorimetry

. Analyzed effect of additives (e.g. surfactants, silica particles) on

droplet size of emulsion

Bachelor of Chemical Technology

Apr 2006

Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India

Concentration: Oil, oleochemicals & surfactants technology

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