Customer Service Project Manager

Yongjun (Denny) Chen

Kentucky Derby Ct, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739

Phone: 909-***-****, Email: ******@*****.***

HIGHLIGHTS

1.Strong background in material science and engineering, including polymers and composites.

2.Extensive industry experience (19 years) in new product development (polymers, coatings/sealers, adhesives, laminate, composites, biomaterials, medical devices, which have resulted in more than 17 new products developed and implemented with more than $65 Million in revenue and savings per year), commercialization and customer service.

3.Very strong leadership for new product development and commercialization as well as trouble-shooting.

4.Energetic and enthusiastic with good interpersonal and communication skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

06/12 to present, Principle Scientist/Team Leader, James Hardie, Fontana, CA 92337

1.Worked with venders to develop and implement new laminate adhesive film for C+ business.

Saved 2 Million dollars per year for C+ business while the performance was maintained.

Provided more leverage for C+ laminate source.

2.Led one team (6) to develop and commercialize new composites with polymer fibers.

Saved 15 Million dollars of cost per year

Had better long term durability.

Helped for the risk management for raw materials supply.

3.Led the RM team (3) to develop new Alumina for the composites materials.

Save potential 0.9 Million dollars of cost per year.

Create more raw materials sources for Alumina.

02/05 to 06/12, Senior Scientist/Project Manager, James Hardie, Fontana, CA 92337

1.Developed and led one cross-functional team (6) to implement new polymer sealer/primer (coatings) for fiber cement composites.

Developed the new primer with much better performance and cost saving at 12 millions of dollars

Helped develop new sealer (polyurethane, epoxy and acrylic) for fiber cement composites for better

wet adhesion and water resistance as well as blocking.

2.Developed and commercialized three generations of new polymer adhesive laminates with the special performance for prefinished fiber cement composite packaging for all weather applications.

Saved Millions dollars of cost per year.

Developed and commercialized the new adhesive laminate.

Set up new lamination process for the new adhesive in process lines.

07/03 to 02/05, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406

1.Developed biodegradable and yet hydrophobic coating from natural proteins and ready for commercialization, which solved the tough compatibility issue in the industry.

2.Synthesized biodegradable polyester dispersion with much better performance than these in the market.

3.Synthesized water-based polyurethane, acrylate emulsion, epoxy ester dispersion with incorporated vegetable oils.

4.Formulated the first non-silane and zero VOC water-based water repellant/stain meeting Federal requirements for the cellulose surface and ready for commercialization.

06/01 to 07/03, Team Leader/Senior R&D Chemist, Oculus Ltd. Singapore

1.Led a cross-functional team (10) to push the new generation of color lens to the production line and to commercialize it before April 2003 with the following accomplishments:

The new product penetrated into the markets of over 20 countries within half year.

The company’s 3rd quarter sales grew 35% and revenue grew 21% for the 2nd half of 2003.

The new color lens contributed 37% and 48% company revenue for 2005 and 2006, respectively.

Another $ 4.2 million was raised to expand the production capacity to copy the sales growth momentum.

2.Developed and commercialized the 3rd generation ink for color lens project (Singapore Economic Development Board project) with better performance than that of No.1 competitor, including polyurethane hydrogel synthesis and coating formulations.

3.Synthesized novel ophthalmic materials with excellent performance for conventional lenses and improved the present ophthalmic materials polymerization with 5% rejection in lens processing instead of 30% rejection before improvement.

4.Improved comfort level of the present formulation of the lens care solution for the daily usage.

10/94 to 06/98, QA Manager/Senior Chemist, Coating Industry Research Inst, National Coating Research Center, China

1.Managed eight QC employees for the daily quality control.

2.Set up the coating test laboratory and in Hongyi Coatings Co.

3.Developed and commercialized six new coating products as below, including polymer synthesis and coating formulations.

4.Did scale up, technology transfer and customer services of the above new products for the join-venture partners with the sales increase at 300% within 4 years.

EDUCATION

2/10 to 5/6/11

Cement Chemistry, JH University, Fontana, CA

1/31 to 2/1/05

Coating Short Course – Modern Coatings, USM, New Orleans, LA

07/03 to 02/05

Postdoctoral Fellow in Polymer Synthesis, Coating and Bio-renewable materials, The University of Southern Mississippi (USM), Hattiesburg, MS

06/98 to 06/01

Ph.D in Polymer Chemistry, Thesis: Polyaniline (conductive polymer), its Surface Modification and Functionalization, and Applications, National University of Singapore

09/88 to 07/92

BSc in Polymer Science and Engineering, Polypropylene and its Low Temperature Flexibility Improvement, Nanjing University of Chemical Technology, Nanjing, China

ANALYTICAL, COMPUTER AND LANGUAGE SKILLS

1.Familiar with many analytical techniques (FTIR, GC-MS, GPC, NMR, UV-Visible, SEM, AFM, DSC, GMA, TGA, XPS, SIMS, etc.) for polymers, coatings, adhesives, composite materials, biomaterials, etc.

2.Good computer and related software skills.

3.Fluent spoken and written English.

HONORS AND AWARDS

1.Awarded JH R&D innovator in both 2010 and 2011.

2.Awarded the Best Technical Presentation in James Hardie in 2006.

3.Awarded Research Scholarship of NUS for PhD study (1998-2001).

4.Awarded Graduate Assistant (7 selected from 150 postgraduates in the Department) of NUS in 2000.

AFFILIATIONS

Date Affiliated

Organization

Role

05/12 to present

Biomaterials

Member

02/04 to present

America Chemical Society

Member

SELECTED PATENTS (Total 5)

1. Wang, Huaijun; Chen, Yongjun; Luo, Caidian, Hybrid Fiber for Composite Building Materials, pending, 2011. (JH Research LLC)

2. Babu, Narayanswamy, Chen, Yongjun; Fan, Daming; Mike, Chew, Polyurethane Coating for PolyHEMA Contact Lens and Process for Preparing the Same, 2005, PCT Pending No. 200504686-7. (Oculus Ltd.)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Total 18)

1. Chen, Yongjun; Kang, E. T.; Neoh, K. G.; Tan, K. L., Oxidative Graft Polymerization of Aniline on Modified Si(100) Surface, Macromolecules, 2001, 34, 3133.

2. Chen, Yongjun, Water-borne Air-drying Anticorrosion Coatings, Paint & Coatings Industry, 1997, 4, 23

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