Dr. Andrzej Rokicki

****April Rain Rd

Lawrence, KS 66049

973-***-****

acxkro@r.postjobfree.com

Expert R&D chemist/manager, IP and international collaboration savvy, seeking position commensurate with experience.

Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis (CEBC), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Industry Liaison Director Oct. 2014 - Nov. 2016

Provided, promoted and managed inclusion of industrial perspective, targets, ideas and approaches in the CEBC program:

Managed the CEBC industry membership program; providing primary point of contact with Industry representatives: recruiting new and retaining existing members

Instrumental in signing-in two new members and one pending (Jan. 2017)

Initiated Industry friendly revision of University IP ownership policies of Industry sponsored projects

Contributed industrial perspective to the strategic planning at CEBC.

Introduced Industry like Safety Program at CEBC.

Assisted with project management, particularly of the Industry sponsored projects.

Ensured Intellectual Property protection of CEBC portfolio and assisted in commercialization of Center’s discoveries.

SCIENTIFIC DESIGN INC., Little Ferry, NJ 2004 - 2014 Director, Research and Development April 2004 – June 2014 Led R&D team supporting ethylene oxide (EO) catalysts technology/business enhancing its market place position:

• Led R&D team to the development and commercialization of an improved ethylene oxide

(EO) catalyst arresting market share erosion and enabling category leadership

• Led R&D team’s development of two new step-out lines of high performance ethylene oxide synthesis catalysts resulting in ca. 50% increase of market share and more than doubling EO catalyst sales revenue for the Company

• Increased rate of new leads development by step-out high throughput testing

• Re-organized R&D Department, 27 personnel, into functional and topical teams; introduced peer review of new project proposals and of the reviews of existing projects; revamped and streamlined reporting system; established paperless office

• Provided technical support to IP counsels to ensure right to practice for new developments and to assure protection of intellectual property

• Arranged funds for R&D facilities upgrade, ensured upgrade’s implementation UNITED CATALYSTS INC., Louisville, KY 1991-2004

(Subsequently Sud-Chemie, now Clariant)

Global New Technology Coordinator & R&D/Lab Manager Sep.1999 – Apr. 2004 Served as point person to identify and coordinate the evaluation and preparation of "out of the box” project proposals for BOD review:

Coordinated and administered execution of projects on global basis in USA, Germany & Japan

Performed global, cross functional project management, negotiation and completion of projects with internal partners and outside parties

Identified opportunity and coordinated entry into state of the art rapid testing area Lab and R&D Manager Apr. 1995 – Sep. 1999

Company had two physical locations. Provided oversight and management to the satellite lab location.

Responsibility expanded to laboratory administration (22 personnel)

Assisted VP R&D in preparing and coordinating facility budget

Supervised secretarial and maintenance support of the lab

Coordinated development and introduction of Safety and ISO procedures at site, ensured compliance

R&D responsibility expanded to include coordination of Styrene catalyst effort on global basis resulting in the development and commercialization of industry benchmark styrene synthesis StyroMax line of catalysts

R&D Manager Dec. 1991 – Apr. 1995

Challenged to manage continuous improvement of Houdry technology catalyst and process. Responsible for research, development and support of production and operations.

Developed high stability catalyst: ensured catalyst market leadership position for this major product line

Initiated research on “heat generating material”, HGM, a step-out Houdry process improvement enabler

AIR PRODUCTS and CHEMICALS Inc., Allentown, PA 1987-1991 Senior Principal Research Chemist Oct. 1990 – Dec. 1991 Principal Research Chemist Aug. 1987 – Oct. 1990

The Company desired to introduce novel, step-out polymer to the market.

Provided technical leadership in the development and commercialization of a new polymer line, poly-alkylene carbonates (Q-PAC’s), and its catalyst. EDUCATION and/or TRAINING

PhD, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland Post-doc, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Research Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Research Associate, UCSB, Santa Barbara, California, USA PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/AFFILIATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS ACS

Publications

25+ papers, 33 patents and several pending patent applications.

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