MICHAEL GASPERO

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WILMINGTON, DE

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HTTP://WWW. LINKEDIN.COM/PUB/MICHAEL-GASPERO/14/150/15 CAREER SUMMARY

I’m a skilled, diverse, adaptable and flexible individual with vast experience in various industries and businesses. I’m committed in providing a safe, ethical, encouraging and enjoyable work environment. I’m a strong team contributor and a quick study. I take it upon myself to develop my education, skills and abilities to further my contributions, in order to benefit myself, my family and my employer. I’m a roll-up-the-sleeve; type of personality. COMPUTER PROGRAM SKILLS

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, One Note, Outlook, Share Point, Info Path, Canvas and Lotus Notes among others.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Companies, Wilmington, DE / (2011–06/01/6015) Product Stewardship & Regulatory Analyst, DuPont Chemicals and Fluoroproducts

• Product Stewardship and Regulatory professional with 2+ years of experience. Proactive, results oriented professional with a strong bias for action, attention to detail and personal accountability. Direct experience in collaboration with several business technical units including Finishes and Release Systems, Industrial Resins & Monomers, Melts Monomers, and Speciality Products (Krytox® and Nafion®) processing Business Data Requests, M/SDS’s and First Orders.

• Collaboration with Sales professionals, Product Managers, Technical Liaisons in order to maintain First Order Database.

• Collaboration with Joint Development Associations providing current M/SDSs for their customers.

• Contributed to the “China Food Contact Compliance GB9685 work”.

• I’m a current member of The Safety Activities & Communications team, assisting in conducting group safety meetings, being a resource to various groups for their presentations, design topic information in “Clip the Blip” Program and helping in organizing the Annual Fair.

• I’m a Slips, Trips and Fall team member, conducting audits and providing information to the sites. Technical Service Technician, / DuPont Chemicals and Fluoroproducts: (2009 - 2012)

• Performed destructive testing, (S-BAR & OVEN), on finish and release coating especially on cookware while working in the Teflon® Test Kitchen.

• Performed destructive testing on Solar panels and various coated sheet samples. Technical Service Technician, / DuPont Chemicals and Fluoroproducts: (2009 - 2009)

• Performed quality control testing of ink jet inks. Maintained spreadsheets and databases. Serviced various printers.

Technical Service Technician, / DuPont Chemicals and Fluoroproducts: (2008 - 2009)

• Performed testing, on dispersions used in coatings for the flexible roofing and cooking industry. MICHAEL GASPERO Page 2

Laboratory Technician, / DuPont Chemicals and Fluoroproducts: (2001- 2008) Next Generation Refrigerants, Foams and Fluids:

• Extensive success in writing and conducting safety reviews.

• I set-up and functioned in four (4) laboratories for highly toxic and flammable materials.

• Physically assisted in bringing in a 25 million dollar business by accumulating two principle investigators to the DuPont philosophy.

• I operated and maintained various analytical instruments along with an anti-chamber and dry box. Fuel Cell Business

• Produced 99% of production catalyst coatings for Towanda and Wilmington Locations.

• Developed process to exchange solvents in one of the raw materials.

• Designed a process that increased production from 73% to 97%, increasing the company’s profits by

$100,000/month.

• Designed and operated a roll mill cabinet by utilizing existing office equipment and installing timers that provided a self-contained, with a secondary and release containment system that could operate unattended.

• Primary technician that set-up and operated the ECA test station and a six-cell H2 life test station.

• 1 of 2 technicians that set-up and operated the RK coating (printing unit) system. Du Pont Central Research & Development (05/1999 – 09/2001): Fuel Cell Business

• Primary technician that set-up and operated the 1.2kW test

• Set up approximately 8 labs at the CRP facility.

• Operated several single cell test station.

Assistant Engineer, DuPont Agricultural Products (12/1997 – 05/1999):

• Manufacture products, in a team, shift work environment, from lab scale to semi-works, utilizing various glass- lined baffled reactors (100, 300 and 500 gallon), industrial scale filters, augers, mills and dryers. Malter-Hamilton Chemical Company, Colwyn, PA / Operations Manager (08/1990 – 02/1998):

• I was responsible for scheduling, operating, and maintaining with troubleshooting eight (8) double-helix, Teflon® spinning band, distillation units, recycling organic and fluorinated solvents from medical and environmental customers.

• Designed a cooling system to enhance and shorten production time.

• Direct supervisor of approximately five (5) individual at the T&D facility.

• I was involved in acquiring new customers for the environmental field.

• I was involved in audits for new customers and was co-lead for PA state inspection audits. M.B.B. Helicopter Corporation, West Chester, PA / Warranty Clerk (6/1989 – 06/1990):

• Process claim forms from North America.

• Inspect returned parts for stated defects.

• dBase III programming.

• Working closely with the accounting, finance and legal departments.

• Started learning the German language, as the HQ’s was in Germany. Raytheon Corporation, Philadelphia, PA / Laboratory Administrator (11/1985 – 4/1989) MICHAEL GASPERO Page 3

(Formally, United Engineers & Constructors- formally, Air Products & Chemicals, formally, Catalytic Inc.)

• Produced and sent out customer test results.

• Maintenance and repair of facility either on my own or hiring contractors after processing a purchase order and insuring they were covered with insurance.

• Maintaining Nana-pure water system

• Preservation and logging in of incoming samples for testing.

• Customer contact.

ADDITIONAL PART TIME EXPERIENCE

Wolfe’s Baldwin Brass Company, Chadds Ford, PA / Sales Associate Gaspero Videography & Photography, Owner/Operator, (1985-2000) Genuardi’s Food Stores, Chadds Ford, PA / Cashier and Customer Service Kohl’s Department Store, Media, PA / Sales

Linvilla Orchards, Glen Mills, PA / General worker EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Emergency Medical Responder, State of Delaware (current) PRO BOARD Certified Hazardous Materials Technician, State of Delaware (current) Advanced Confined Space Rescue Worker, State of Delaware (current) PRO BOARD Certified NFPA 1081 Fire Fighter, State of Delaware (current) Consultant for conducting safety meetings.

DuPont University, Marketing Course

Pharmacy Technician Course, Penn Foster

Neumann University, course work in Natural Sciences (Biochemistry, Microbiology) Associate of Natural, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA

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