Manager Quality Analytical Chemistry Quality Control

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Xiong (Shawn) Liu, Ph. D.

US Permanent Resident

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ANALYTICAL MANAGER: LEADERSHIP, TEAM MANAGEMENT, INNOVATION, SUCCESS 6 Years Laboratory Management Experiences

13 Years Chemistry Laboratory Experiences

CORE COMPETENCIES

High performance-driving in managing central analytical laboratory towards high level customer satisfaction and internal team development & sustainability, with track-records of success based on solid data.

Highly experienced in leading a cross-function team in meeting complex project demands at multiple levels of priority/ complexity/resource-demand/timeline, from Production, R&D, Process, Finance, and Sales, etc.

Strong in bridging between customers/scientists demands and analytical development efforts in order to deliver results meeting or exceeding customers' expectations, timely, accurately, and cost-effectively.

Achievements: Outstanding Performance (Year 2014); 7 Patents (1 Licensed, 4 Commercialized), 2 Grants, 20 Journal Papers (7 First-authored, 600+ Citations), 2 Book Chapters

Proven Results-Delivering, High Performance (Exceeding/Outstanding, year 2013/2014) SKILL SETS

Management

Team management

Communication

Multi-tasking

Technical directing

Results-driven

Leadership

Quality/Process

ISO audit

Statistical Analysis

Root Cause Analysis

MSA & Gauge R&R

SPC

Six Sigma

Analytical Chem.

ICP-OES, XRF, AAS

GC-FID/TCD/ECD

HPLC/IC

GPC, DLS, FTIR

NMR, Raman, FTIR

TGA/DSC

Productivity

Microsoft Office

JMP

MiniTab

SAP

Sharepoint

DOE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Manager, Analytical May 2013 - Current

Scientific Design Company, Inc. (SDCI, a SABIC-Clariant Partnership Company), Little Ferry, NJ

Lead the 11 member Analytical Group (3 subgroups of chemists and analysts) to ensure timely and quality support is provided to all corporate divisions and external clients.

In 2 years, substantially leveraged the quality, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and range/depth of analytical services in the core laboratory to the level which was never been achieved within the organization in the past 30 years.

Production: Managed QC and QA analyses on 7/24 basis - timely, accurately, and cost-effectively. In 5 months, established a record-ever 100% incident free analysis system and sustained then after. Initiated a Six Sigma campaign, achieved 30% cost saving and 25% turnaround time reduction for all QC analyses.

Production: Team with Quality and Operation for root cause analysis and improvements. Within 11 months, improved First Pass Quality rate from <80% to be >98%, historical high record.

Process: Lead support for the ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol technology in Engineering Department. Provide expertise for all the process (50+ streams from raw materials to process control and products, 20+ ASTM methods), and troubleshooting problems in plants together with Technical Service Department.

R&D: Support all analytical demands. Met the challenge of 80% workload increase and shortening of turnaround time by 40%, without headcount increase, through improvements on efficiency and lean campaigns.

Responsible for maintaining and satisfied laboratory quality/safety accreditations and training/certification programs, satisfied all internal/mother company/external audits and ISO audits. Email: *****.*****@*****.*** Mobile: 201-***-**** Xiong (Shawn) Liu, Ph.D. 2

Director January 2010 - October 2012

Mesolight LLC, Little Rock, AR

Led a group of 2 Ph.D. scientists and 2 analysts for R&D of 4 series of colloidal reagent products, and establishment of quality and analytical procedures for QC and QA tests.

Led the team for research proposals, project management, and reporting to national funding agencies of NSF/NIH/DoD/DoE. Key contributor to the funding of domestic $300k and international $1.5M funds.

Managed the facility with 20+ equipments, led the efforts for the issuing of 20+ analytical SOPs and manuals. Mentored and trained both internal & external users for equipments and procedures per technical/quality.

Initiated and established IP portfolio for core technologies and products of the organization.

Represented the company in showcases and conferences. Sr. Scientist January 2009 - December 2009

Mesolight LLC, Little Rock, AR

Designed protocols, analyzed and tested reagent products for quality product release, using techniques of electrophoresis, SEC, UV-Vis-NIR, fluorescence, dynamic light scattering, Microplate Reader, NMR, etc.

Investigated effects of sample matrix compositions on reagent performance (solubility, aggregation, bioactivity, fluorescence, stability, etc), and developed optimal matrix composition for reagent products. Graduate Research Assistant August 2005 - December 2008 NanoScience Technology Center, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Invented an immunoassay technology (NANODLSAYTM) for fast, ultrasensitive, and sample-saving analysis of analytes. PCT patent issued and licensed out to startup company NanoDiscovery Inc.

Discovered a method to efficiently measure extinction coefficient of colloids, adopted by 100+ research groups.

The resource expert in the group for statistical modeling/data analysis, and softwares. Graduate Research Assistant August 2004 - July 2005 Polymer and Coating Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

Formulated gold colloids/para-aminobenzoic acid polymeric resin, achieved precise release of colloids with exact electric charge on colloidal surface.

Undergraduate Research Assistant July 2002 - June 2004 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Analyzed and characterized poly(methyl methacrylate) microspheres as whiting additives in paint formula. EDUCATION

Ph.D. Analytical Chemistry University of Central Florida (2005-2009) B.S. with Honor Applied Chemistry Univ. of Sci. and Tech. of China (2000-2004) B.E. (Dual Degree) Electronic Information Engineering Univ. of Sci. and Tech. of China (2001-2004) SELECTED AWARDS

2009 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad ($5000) 2008 Best in Category Award, NanoFlorida 2008: 1st Annual NanoScience Technology Symposium 2004 Excellent Thesis Award, Univ. of Sci. and Tech. of China SELECTED PATENT (Out of 7)

Huo, Q.; Liu, X.; Dai, Q. “Detection of analytes using metal nanoparticle probes and dynamic light scattering”, PCT/US2009/030087. Licensed to NanoDiscovery Inc. (Orlando, FL). PUBLICATIONS

40+ Peer-review scientific papers/proceedings with 1300+ citations from worldwide. REFERENCE

Available upon request.

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