Plant Manager Quality Control

Chemist

Concept (Re) Formulation Scale Up Management Production Quality Customer Support

R&D chemist produces profitable results in paint, coatings, and ink industries. Leverage strong understanding of physical properties to develop and produce customer oriented products in lean, ISO-certified plants.

Generate new, high margin products/lines and new revenue streams

1.Screen ink

2.Thermoplastic coatings (Epoxy, Urethane, Acrylic)

3.Enzymatic cleaner (www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ3n5ZPqQ8w)

Significant optimization(reformulating) to save on raw materials cost

Lower costs by reducing waste (scrap, time, re-work) and improving cycle time

Project Management

Increase customer satisfaction

Professional Experience

Gans Ink (ink manufacturer) Salt Lake City, UT July 5th to February 10th 2023

Chemist { UV systems }

Incurred product development and R&D, and scale up. Managed concurrent R&D projects to support various properties and applications. Reformulated existing products (key features). Provided daily quantification/ qualification of QC/QA for material/lean manufacturing plant. CAPA. Customer interface resolving technical issues. Support sales from concept to commercialization. Color matching. Research. Formulation. Reverse engineering.

Menzies Aviation Salt Lake City August 2019 to July 1st 2022

Quality Control (assurance)

Qualitative/Qualitative Monitor of Fuel and equipment

Collect Data for Statistical control

Test fuel and equipment for safety and usage

Field Quality/Qualitative Assurance

New Look International (improving surfaces) Salt Lake City 2015 – 2018

Chemist

Develop processes and innovative formulations in coatings while reformulating to better cost, improved performance. Enlarge product line. Quality and retain system. Disseminate knowledge. Address customer requests, define parameters, and meet their needs. Assist production. Assist quality. Provide standardized procedures. Implements CAPA. Water/solvent based coatings, strippers, sealers, additives, lotions, cleaners, stains, acrylics, water base urethanes, epoxies, silicones. Resolve distressed materials. Research, formulate, and provide support to sales in efforts for concept to commercialization. Act as a technical resource. Interact as technical support through customers inquiries. Troubleshoot issues. Work with hero, datacolor, xrite, coroba dispensers and color. Make tint able bases. Position eliminated.

Improved current products significantly while reducing cost by dollars a gallon

Taken product concepts to bench research to actual production to the customer satisfaction of purchase

Kept “green” policy intact

Project management in direct response to need

Have broadened product portfolio

Brought in outside raw materials while eliminating problematic ones

Worked with distributors/vendors and their technical team to achieve successful product

Instead of selling inert materials that partially performed, actually sent out working products

Brought about change of culture/thought in company through presentations, explanations, need and time

Interacted with suppliers over quality as well as price

Reverse engineering

Formulated with restrictive VOC such as SCAQMD (x<50g/L)

Part of troubleshooting decision making team for complaints filed

Provided technical support to customers as needed

Reduced cycle time in production

Formulated original “in house” epoxies, acrylics, and urethanes (thermoplastics)

Implemented SOP’s

Implemented quality standards to assure repeatability and quality

Generated sds and tds on new products

The bottom line is profit. I saved money by:

200 gallons of sealer worked off due to production err – raw material value $2000

Retail value $6000+

No disposal fee

Sold as good product

55g drum of urethane finished product due to management err – raw material value $1000

Retail value $2200

No disposal fee

Sold as good product

Stain cost reduction of differing kinds by replacing one raw material

Stain (a) 5000g(made) @ 1/g in raw material or $5000 per year(at current sales)

Stain (b) 1000g (made) @ 1.50/g in raw material or $1500 per year(at current sales)

Stain (c) 2500g (made) @ 0.75/g in raw materials or $1875 per year (at current sales)

I made money by innovative ideas such as:

Hydrophobic penetrating sealer

100K sales volume since inception

BDWFE innovation wood urethane floor coating

sealers concrete cleaner elastomeric coating water proofing anti graffiti coating 2K epoxy 2K urethane enzymatic cleaner

Hexcel (fibers) Salt Lake City, UT 2014 – 2015

Quality Technician

Verified quality assurance of processed materials (fiber) during production for 10 concurrently running lines. Investigated and resolved customer complaints. Supported engineers with process improvements. Managed special projects. Witness production. Position eliminated.

QC/ QA Contract Roles 2012 – 2014

Held various positions in medical and manufacturing.

Gans Ink (ink manufacturer) Salt Lake City, UT 2006 – 2010

Chemist { UV systems }

Incurred product development and R&D, and scale up. Managed 5-10 concurrent R&D projects to support various properties and applications. Reformulated existing products (key features). Provided daily quantification/ qualification of QC/QA for material/lean manufacturing plant. CAPA. Customer interface resolving technical issues. Support sales from concept to commercialization. Reverse engineering. Released due to RIF.

Generated new revenue with high margin by developing innovative and cost-effective screen ink and product line created from concept.

Built new revenue stream by developing alternative ink product line with superior characteristics and 33% lower raw material costs which became its own product line.

Met production goals by qualifying new raw material within a month for 90%+ of products manufactured after vendor stopped supplying

Lowered costs and production cycle time by improving formulation (physical properties) and

manufacturing procedures.

New products required stability, and if colored, flushes, and dispersions

XSYS Print Solutions (ink manufacturer) Dixon, CA 2003 - 2005

Quality Site Manager { water/solvent based/ UV }

Managed quality issues with flexographic ink products. Implemented quality system (retention of color standards and batch records). Resolved product development and reformulation challenges. Collaborated closely with customers, plant manager, corporate R&D, and tech services. Site closed.

Eliminated waste and improved customer satisfaction by developing lean manufacturing procedures.

Achieved project results for new equipment installation ($1 million capital investment) by working closely with vendor (CB Mills’ GSE auto dispensers).

Lowered batches from 8 - 9 hits average to 2 - 3 for better cycle time to maintain million dollar customer.

Antique Drapery Rod (trade sales) Dallas, TX 2001 - 2002

Plant Manager/ Resident Chemist

Developed products, launched production lines, and managed paint production for new plant with continuing investment. Trained warehouse employees to manufacture paint. Managed scale up from lab to production. Wrote safety procedures of paint in a lean manufacturing format

Met goals for launching new, lean plant (concept to initial production).

Received patent for interior paint.

Perfect safety record and attendance.

Lilly Industries (acquired by Valspar) Dallas, TX 1998 - 2001

Quality Control/ Chemist

Managed product development/scale up at ISO certified company purchased by Valspar. Revised all formulas. Interfaced with customers to resolve problems.

Achieved RTFT through reformulation and CAPA.

Lowered batches to < 1 adjustment from 3 - 4

Reduced cycle time 75% by developing new procedure for verifying color adjustment quality for a customer

Ameron (protective coatings) Little Rock, AR 1996 – 1998

Quality Control Technician

Supported product development of maintenance and marine, urethanes, polyesters, epoxies, silicones, military, protective coatings, herbicides, biocides products. Supported product swap complete.

Valspar (acquired Sherwin Williams) 1994 – 1996

Quality Control Technician

Supported product development of extrusion, coil, marine, packaging, automotive, FDA, primers, coatings and coatings. Helped implement and support ISO certified 9000, 90001, 9002.

Education

Bachelor of Chemistry University of Texas - Dallas Dallas, TX 1993

Technical Skills

Ink: corona, dyne levels, lamination, 3 roll mills, inkometer, duke, UV, PVC, foil, 2 roll, k coater, harper, lil joe, lithographic, flexographic, gravure, sheetfed, offset, screen, initiators, monomers, UV curable resins

Paint: paint, meyer rods, sand mills, airless & spray guns, electrostatic (turbodisc), WPG, DFT gauge, driers, viscometers

Common: Color matching, Macbeth, DCI, ACS, physical testing, MSDS, tech data sheets, applications, ASTM methods, technical support, research and development, batch development, cone n plate,, hegmann (grind gauge), pH, titrations, VOC, water, solvent, coatings, DSC, panels, acrylics, epoxies, alkyds, urethanes, polyesters, rheology, hybrid, emulsions, reverse engineering, titrations, refractive indexing, fountain solutions. C of A’s, bird drawdowns, anti sag bar, lenetta, cowls, surfactants, defoamers, paper, wood, metal

Physical Properties Expertise

Cure speed (surface, through cure) abrasion (silicones, waxes) pull (adhesion) water pick up (duke) tack (inkometer) gloss (high, semi, flat) rheology (cps, krebs, KU, etc.) flow (thixotropic) color match lamination

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