Sales Quality Assurance

Allen D. Johnston, Ph. D.

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OBJECTIVE To utilize experience in leading research and developmental teams to provide a broad array of technical support for current products and support the conception, development, and growth of new prod-ucts for the market.

SUMMATION I have experience in leading a small company successfully wherein sales, earnings, and product listings doubled. I have presented budgets for Board of Directors approval. I have designed, devel-oped, and scaled products up from the lab scale to the commercial production scale with budgeted time and expense profile. I have invented dental adhesive elements that match the market leader in performance and capability but are not covered in the dental patent literature. This provided a new and desired alternative to the aesthetic dental restorative market. I have developed and installed new manufacturing processes that led to a doubling of the sales volume due to the new enhanced product stability. I led the drive to acquire and implement ISO 9000 quality certification.

EXPERIENCE

President, Customized Chemical Consulting December, 2011 to present

• Provided advice to dental and medical material entrepreneurs concerning marketing strategies, formu-lation and desirable product properties.

Chief Technical Officer, Esstech - 2008 - 2011

• Budget responsibilities for R & D Department

• Trouble-shooting responsibilities for raw materials qualifications, product manufacture, QC, and QA

• Supervised Esstech, Inc. technology development and application team of one R & D Chemist, two QC Chemists, and two production chemists

• Designed and developed low-shrink urethane methacrylate (<2%; >97% cure) dental resin manufactur-ing process. Coordinated multi-site testing program. Presented results to international meeting. Ad-vised clients on effective application.

• Scaled multiple reactions from lab-scale (0.1 L) to commercial scale (1 MT)

• Invented new phosphate-based dental adhesive resin. Coordinated University testing program that proved material to be market leader equivalent and, critical for clients, uncovered by patent literature.

• Developed robust process for urethane manufacture with controlled low inhibiter content and minimal side reaction on 1 MT scale

• Developed amine-free methacrylate ester manufacture process that quadrupled sales due to enhanced stability

• Developed and validated all QC measurement systems for Esstech

President and Chief Operating Officer, Esstech - 2000 to 2008

• Company-wide Budget Responsibilities with annual presentations to Board of Directors

• Presentations to researchers and customers at annual IADR, AADR (Research Meetings) and biennial International Dental Show (Cologne, Germany)

• Gross sales up 240% to $4.8 million in 2008

• Net Earnings up 200% during tenure

• ISO 9000 Quality Assurance Status attained and maintained

• Esstech product catalogue doubled

• Developed specialized monomers for powder/liquid nail extension system (Retention plus)

• Produced successful, high-quality nail gel system for Colomer/Creative Nail Design (Brisa)

Vice President and Technical Director, Esstech - 1994 to 2000

• Small particle, narrow molecular range polymers polymerization process developed

• Encapsulation process for shielding reactive components until needing in the curing process

• Introduced statistical process analysis to QC department

• Developed five new monomers and ten new polymer products

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Chief Research Scientist - 1987-1994

• American Dental Association Health Foundation (ADAHF) Paffenbarger Research Center (PRC) at Na-tional Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Polymer Chemistry Program

• Supervised three chemists

• Grant budgetary responsibilities

• Applied torsion adhesive testing to supplement tensile and shear methodologies

• Participated in on going collaboration with naval dental researchers for the National Naval Dental School, Bethesda, MD

• Design of experiment protocols employed to streamline development

Research Associate, ADAHF PRC at NIST - 1984-1987

• Synthesized approximately 50 variously substituted as probes to bonding system

• Acquired magnetic resonance spectrometer through NIH-funded grant process

• Mössbauer spectroscopy utilization to study the role of iron in the adhesive process

EDUCATION Ph.D. Organic Chemistry

University of California, Riverside

M.S. Organic Chemistry

University of California, Riverside

B.S. Biology

University of California, Riverside

PUBLICATIONS - Thirteen publications in refereed journals and nineteen presentations at national and in-ternational meetings. Two US patents granted. US Patent # 6,015,549 concerns new polymerization technol-ogy for methacrylate systems. US Patent # 7,025,954 concerns encapsulating elements in methacrylate poly-mers.

THESIS - Johnston, A. D. (1983): Substituent Effects on Sigmatropic Rearrangements in Compounds Related to the Vitamin D Series and Studies Directed Toward the Preparation of Labeled (6Z)-1-Hydroxy-9, 10-secocholestra-5(10), 6, 8(14)-triene

TRAINING - Classes in statistical design of experiments including full factorial designs, Taguchi designs, and partial factorial designs of each type. Participated in management training classes. Completed various Fi-nance and Accounting courses.

MEMBERSHIPS - American Chemical Society, International Association for Dental Research, American Association for Dental Research, Academy of Dental Materials, Sigma Xi

MEETINGS - Served as Chairman and Co-chairman of Sessions at National and International Meetings.

LANGUAGE - Fluent in spoken and written German

REFERENCES - Available upon request

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