Martin A. Hansen

adyuyo@r.postjobfree.com • 215-***-****

Lansdale, PA 19446-4936

Lab / Research Technician

Enthusiastic, inquisitive, safety-minded, creative problem-solver with a motivating personality, strong people skills, and sound technical judgment with excellent communication, computer, and typing expertise.

Possess an ESTJ personality type with respect to Myers-Briggs Profiling = analytical, goal-oriented, decisive, and organized. Demonstrated excellence in gathering the chemicals to be used in experiments, conducting testing for quality assurance and safety inspection, and keeping equipment in good running condition by executing routine maintenance tasks, promoting safety, and training others. Adept at calibrating instruments and equipment in accordance with in-house procedures; including troubleshooting problems. Instrumental in preparing chemical solutions for products and processes following standardized formulas as well as documenting and reporting experiment results by recording data and preparing charts and graphs. Ability to perform relevant laboratory tests and procedures with expedience, attention-to-detail, and problem resolution leading to development of chemical products.

Areas of Expertise

Application Testing of Coatings

Drawdown & Brushout Flow

Spray Application of Coatings

Viscosity / Heat Stability

Humidity & Salt Spray Resistance

Corrosion Resistance

Adhesion to Various Metals

Adhesion to Aged Oil / Alkyd

Sag Resistance

20 / 60 Degree Gloss

Mandrel Flexibility

Impact Resistance

Misc Chemical Resistance

Stain Resistance

Color Acceptance

Career Experience

Sonoco Protective Solutions – ISC Labs, Montgomeryville, PA Sep 2020 – Mar 2022

Temp Lab Tech

Maintained low sub-zero temps for pharmaceuticals, embedded thermocouple probes within various sophisticated packaging configurations and linked by wire bundles to electronically monitor various payload package temperatures over time when subjected to widely varying test chamber temperatures and various amazing refrigerants within the payload package itself.

Lansdale Chrysler Jeep, Montgomeryville, PA Apr 2017 – Mar 2019

Part-Time Creative File Clerk

The Reporter Classified Ads Phone Room, Lansdale, PA Mar 2008 – Nov 2013

Inside Sales

Journal Register Company Call Center, Lansdale, PA Oct 2005 – Dec 2007

Part-Time Role

NCO Group, Horsham, PA Allied-Barton Security, King of Prussia, PA May 2004 – Aug 2005

Site Supervisor of Security

Rohm and Haas Co. Research Laboratories, Spring House, PA

Senior Scientist, Coatings Research, Exploratory Rheology Modifiers

Oversaw daily paint preparation and application testing of many latex and gloss enamel binders, placing same on exposure for long term durability testing.

Successfully developed Acrylic Urethane AU-608 as superior commercial offset for General Mills’ G-Cure resin, today, the AU-608 family continues to be a very profitable benchmark.

Served as a key contributor on team that developed blend-able liquid HASE rheology modifiers offering improved handleability and performance versus conventional cellulosic powder thickeners for interior flat paints.

Rohm and Haas Co. Research Laboratories, Spring House, PA

Senior Scientist, Coatings Research, Acrylic Binders

Played an integral role in the development of several acrylic binders, namely, E-3107 (to reduce wood rot in Scandinavian siding), E-3337 (Akzo-Nobel), E-3406 (PPG), E-3447 (Behr Process), and E-3477 (Offset for UCAR-620).

Trade Sales Coatings, Coatings Research, Acrylic Binders, Exploratory Rheology Modifiers

Senior Scientist

Conducted independent research by identifying/transferring from University of Minnesota to Rohm and Haas, the Ultra-Rapid Freezing technology (URF) for visualizing dispersion morphology via transmission electron microscopy for dramatically improved resolution versus conventional optical microscopy.

Presented URF research paper at symposia in Athens, Greece; Valbonne, France; New Orleans, LA; Hilton Head, SC.

URF paper (from Greece) published in the journal Progress Organic Coatings, 22 (1993) 201-210.

Led the development of QR-1241, standalone HEUR thickener for PVAc binders along with QR-1257, another HEUR using alternate capping phobe technology for gloss enamels.

Earned a promotion to Senior Scientist Level 9.

Characterized the preferential partitioning of rheology modifiers to latex, and not continuous phase, as cause of lapping problems.

Leveraged simple yet elegant experiments using sag resistance and viscosity with actual PVC paints, to graphically characterize the partitioning of QR-1241 thickener between latex and continuous phases.

Dramatically improved efficiency and productivity by pasting data electronically into each page by promoting head/footer concept for dated notebook pages. Confirmed the utility of spreadsheets in calculating paint formulations.

Coordinated Bibliographic Retrieval System (BRS) technical database among 10 departments, including the total upload of approximately 15,000 total electronic documents from scanned hardcopies, establishing upload protocol, communicating with departmental editors, and troubleshooting of secretaries’ daily uploads.

Rohm and Haas Co. Research Laboratories, Spring House, PA

Coatings Technical Service, Solvent and Latex Maintenance Testing

Scientist

Oversaw daily paint preparation and application testing of many latex and gloss enamel binders, placing same on exposure for long term durability testing.

Issued 44 technical reports, complete with photographs documenting key exposures within a chemical plant and at seaside, which successfully promoted latex maintenance binders in these corrosive areas.

Additional Experience

Military Policeman, SGT US Army, Duty Stations – U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY and Frankfurt, Germany

Education

B.S. Chemistry, Purdue University

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