Injection Molding Manager

Dr. Tom Tse

***** ****** ****, #****, ****, TX **494

Email: *********@*****.***

Cell: 316-***-****

U.S. citizen. Bilingual: English and Chinese.

QUALIFICATIONS

Formulation of adhesives, composites, coatings, polymers, sealants, and nanomaterials.

Material systems design. Material selections. Chemistry.

Materials science structure - property - processing relations.

Materials R&D, characterization and testing. Failure analysis. Microscopy. Failure mode and effects analysis.

Product development, process development, commercialization, and market development.

Root cause corrective action problem solving. Quality and productivity improvements. Lean Six Sigma.

Specifications, compliance, documentations, expert witness, consulting.

President, director, technology manager, program leader, project leader, product developer,

materials scientist, adhesive scientist, composite scientist, polymer scientist, coating chemist,

principal scientist, senior technologist, senior engineering specialist, senior engineer, senior chemist.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Science (ScD) degree in Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 1982. Thesis on toughening, fracture mechanics, fracture mechanisms, materials characterization, materials design and optimization, polymers and composites. ScD Minor Degree in Marketing, 1982, MIT Sloan School of Management.

Master of Science (SM) degree in MSE, MIT MSE Dpt., 1980. Thesis topics on surface modifications, composites, syntheses, polymerization, molecular motion, crystallinity, orientation, and materials characterization.

Bachelor of Arts (AB) degree in Chemistry, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, 1978.

Research in organic chemistry synthetic methods and natural products syntheses.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

President, Material Systems Corporation, Houston, TX, 2010-present.

Director of Materials Technology, DeepFlex Inc., Houston, TX, 2009-2010.

Engineering Specialist, Material and Process Engineering, Cessna Aircraft Company, Wichita, KS, 2005-2009.

Technology Manager, Seals and Containers, Energizer Battery Company, Westlake, OH, 2001-2005.

Technology Manager, R&D, Dexter adhesives and mold releases company, Seabrook, NH, 2000-2001.

Principal Chemist, ITW Devcon / Plexus, Danvers, MA, 1997-2000.

Lead Project Chemist, Crystalline Polymers / Electron Microscopist, Analytical Technology, General Electric Plastics, Mount Vernon, IN, 1992-1997.

Senior Research Engineer, Engineering Services, Hercules Corporation, Wilmington, DE, 1988-1992.

Member of Technical Staff, Materials and Processes & Interconnection Technology, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany, NJ, 1986-1988.

Project Leader, Dow Chemical, Resins Research, Freeport, TX, 1982-1986.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Successfully achieved $.5 million cost savings by investigating and qualifying windshield adhesive rivetless nutplates that are on jet airplanes. Worked on nanomaterials for aircraft applications.

Textron featured story February 9, 2007 "Scientist Dr. Tom Tse uses nanotechnology to improve aircraft materials."

Saved $1 million implementing research results on injection molding engineering thermoplastic formulation.

Saved multi million dollars on blow molding engineering thermoplastic. Led programs on car bumper beams and bumper fascia. Received Team Award. Coined and implemented dual phase toughening and impact modifiers program.

Saved multi-million dollar accounts. Received numerous awards for exceptional problem solving, customer services, sense of urgency, and analytical technologies. Quick response to serious engineering thermoplastic problem at important customers. Rapid hands-on failure analyses led to root cause corrective actions. Changed large scale manufacturing chemical engineering processes. Received Team of the Year Award.

Carried out research on a new coating technology for productivity, quality and environmental friendliness. Designed and built chemical engineering equipment for metal finishing line.

Tailor-designed formulations of adhesives, sealants, coatings and paints, including epoxy, methyl methacrylate, acrylic, urethane, and specialty chemistries. Multi-million dollar applications in aircraft, pipes, boating, automotive, construction, recreational, sporting goods, countertop solid surfaces, dunnage, MRO, DIY, textile, and coatings. Formulated pressure sensitive and hot melt adhesives with enhanced properties.

Developed a fast curing, long lifetime, high performance sealant accelerating aircraft manufacturing and solving alligatoring problems. Aircraft manufacturing liked it so much that they asked for more inventions.

Qualified 5 composite supplier facilities in half a year establishing good business relationships, covering aircraft fiber reinforced polymer composites. Decades of experience in composite formulation and process design in composite markets including energy, pipes, construction, civil engineering, electronics, encapsulation, electrical laminates, wood, paper, compact disc, countertops, solid surfaces, automobile, bumper beam, bumper fascia, trucks, recreational, golf carts, personal watercraft, snowmobile, and material dunnage.

Composite fabrication processes include prepreg, vacuum bagging, autoclave, compression molding, resin transfer molding (RTM), vacuum assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM), out of autoclave, radiation cure, infusion, braiding, filament winding, flexible pipe composite processing, pipe end capping, joints, composite repair, electrical laminates, structural reaction injection molding, seismic reinforcement, spraying, sheet molding compounds, and new innovative composite materials and processes.

Fundamental research and product development in toughened epoxy resins, curing agents and composites for aerospace, automobile, electrical laminates, potting, coatings, and filament wound pipes.

Developed flame retardant resin transfer molding resins to overcome the urgent need of the resin for aircraft parts in critical shortage.

Successfully formulated reaction injection molding resins, structural reaction injection molding resins, and process experimental designs. Applications, marketing and customer services in jet ski, golf cart, snowmobile, dunnage, truck and car parts.

Analyzed ductile brittle transition for polycarbonate design.

Synthesized polyurethanes for structure - property - processing control.

Formulated Saran copolymers for toughness.

Set up a $1 million Thermomechanical Reliability Characterization Laboratory. Carried out research on surface mount assembly solder joint quality. Wrote computer programs on dimensional stability and warpage of electrical laminates applicable for the manufacturing of printed wiring board assemblies.

Supported battery manufacturing locations. Carried out research on adhesive closing of battery cans and electrical creepage phenomena.

Identified, planned, directed and implemented material and process innovations to create improvements on next generations flexible composite pipes.

Carried out numerous failure analyses using scanning electron microscopy including real time toughening mechanistic research with publication.

Wrote numerous new functional requirements, material specifications compatible with DNV C501, API 17, and NACE TM0298, research reports and invention disclosure.

Wrote and revised aircraft materials, processes and tests specifications and reports. Reviewed numerous drawings.

Launched new projects with suppliers and develop new materials and formulations for pipes. Nurtured excellent relationships resulting in new materials and business cooperation.

Initiated and implemented Lean Six Sigma initiatives.

Taught a courses on injection molding. Taught numerous classes on Lean Six Sigma, polymers, composites, formulations, mechanical properties, fracture mechanics and fracture mechanisms, fast track commercialization, problem solving, and team building.

Managed three research groups in United States and one in United Kingdom on epoxy, methyl methacrylate, hot melt adhesives and mold releases with 17% profit growth.

Managed battery research and development group for the advancement of battery containers, closing and seals.

Received recognition for mentoring college and high school students.

Publications include toughening of reaction injection molding formulations, synthesis, polymerization, molecular motions, interfacial optimization of graphite fiber reinforced thermoset composites for production, and real time fracture mechanisms by in-situ scanning electron microscopy.

Awarded IR 100 best industrial design award and patents on interfacial adhesion characterization technique, innovative materials & processes for unbonded flexible composite pipes, as well as aircraft materials and processes.

CERTIFICATIONS AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS

Six Sigma, General Electric.

Design for Manufacturability and Automated Assembly, Quality Function Deployment, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Reliability and lifetime prediction, AT&T Bell Laboratories.

Management Skills Development Program, General Electric.

Change Acceleration Process, General Electric. Business Education - process owner, Business Enterprise Mapping. Business negotiating, Cresheim. Situational leadership, Leadership Studies, Inc.

Composite materials for engineers, Wichita State University.

Polyurethane, Case Western Reserve University.

Surface Mount Technology, Soldering, AT&T Bell Labs.

Scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-ray analysis, PGT.

Computer aided design, drafting, solid modeling, and finite element analysis, Cessna Aircraft Company. 4D Database design and programming, Accounting, Javascript, HTML, Java, C++, and C programming, Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA. Unix and C Shell, AT&T Bell Labs.

Subsea Pipeline Design Overview, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

QS9000 Auditor and ISO9000 training, General Electric.

STRENGTHS

Corporate vision and mission,

markets identification,

customer contacts,

corporate image projection,

voice of customers,

quality function deployment,

translation of customer requirements into technical criteria and test methods,

technical validation,

business profit potential evaluation,

target costing,

risk assessments,

program definition,

program planning,

cross functional communication,

entrepreneurial teams building,

matrix organization facilitation,

supplier’s interactions,

utilization of external resources,

sense of urgency,

high motivation,

project fast tracking,

design for manufacturability and assembly,

failure mode and effects analysis,

cradle to grave health safety environment stewardship,

intellectual property protection,

hands on formulations, adhesives, composites, polymers, and coatings,

new expertise establishment,

director / manager / program leader / project leader / product developer,

budgeting and accounting,

mentoring, situational leadership, recognitions,

chemistry,

materials science and engineering, structure-property-processing relations,

fundamental and data driven product development,

market driven technology processes,

design of experiments,

characterization, test data analyses, documentation, and presentations

scale up and production,

project gate process leadership,

successful satisfaction of key project criteria and critical success factors,

product commercialization,

communications on executive, marketing, public relations, and technical levels,

customer trials and customer services,

root cause corrective action problem solving,

contract negotiation,

lessons learnt documentation,

enhancement of multi-year sales and profit mapping,

technology transfer of best practices that delivers sustainable company wide processes,

continuous improvements,

recognitions and celebration.

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