Project Development

JIE CHENG, Ph.D.

Cellphone: 732-***-**** Email: ***.*****.**@*****.***

HIGHLIGHTS

• Over 7 years’ lubricant additive and formulation development experience on industry leading technology

• Formulation development on both Passenger Car Motor Oil (PCMO) and Heavy Duty Diesel Motor Oil (HDEO) categories for North America and Asia Pacific

• Project team leader for new lubricant additive development projects (ashess TBN, antioxidant); Lead multi-functional team including chemists, manufacture, procurement and HSE.

• Expert on lubricant additives (dispersant, viscosity modifier, detergent, antioxidant, friction modifier) with extensive knowledge of both chemistry and performance

• Expert on industry engine tests and bench tests for lubricating oil application

• Strong skills on organic synthesis and structure activity relationship analysis; Provide innovative chemistry solutions to high-value business challenges (trained with GoInnovate);

• Effective practice on project management and gate-review process (trained with AMA project management programs and Microsoft project)

• Strong collaboration with external organizations for joint technical R&D programs

WORK EXPERIENCE

2005 - 2008 Senior Scientist in Component Dept. Infineum U.S.A. L.P, Linden, New Jersey

Four years’ experience in new lubricant additive development for engine motor oil

Key member in a joint venture with chemical supplier on development of new antioxidant additive for passenger car motor oil; obtained three patent applications of new phenylenediamine chemistry developed within the program

Led a multi-functional development project on ashless lubricant component for heavy duty diesel engine oil to provide the benefit of minimized environmental impact and high base number of finished oil; obtained two patent applications of new aminic chemistry

Key member in development of sludge dispersant for GF-5 & soot dispersant for PC-10

2009 - Present Senior Scientist in Crankcase Dept. Infineum U.S.A. L.P, Linden, New Jersey

Three years’ crankcase formulation experience in product development and related formulation science understanding

Key member in GF-6 new category development (fuel economy, antioxidancy)

Project leader on new GF-5 category test - ROBO test formulation science understanding

Project leader on evaluation of new additive component (antioxidant, antiwear, organic friction modifier, ashless TBN) for crankcase application (expertise in Seq. IIIG, IVA, VID tests)

Key member in US heavy duty diesel engine oil CI-4 category reformulation development project (expertise in HDD T-11, T-12, CAT single cylinder test etc.)

Project leader on understanding of lubricant additive effect on highway heavy duty diesel exhaust aftertreatment system; collaborating with outside research labs (Southwest Research Institute & Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) on aftertreatment research program ($0.7M)

Key member of MIT Oil and Engine-Lubricant-Aftertreament Consortium

EDUCATION

2003 - 2005 Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Physical Organic/Computational Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Advisor: Professor Howard E. Zimmerman

Developed stereo-selective nine-step syntheses of five trans-decalin silyl enol ether derivatives with variation in functionality, acidity/basicity

Discovered novel intra-molecular proton transfer phenomena in kinetic ketonization of enolates with mechanistic and computational interpretation

1998 - 2003 Ph.D., (Organic Chemistry, University of New Orleans)

Designed and developed five series of natural product-epibatidine analogues as novel nicotinic receptor ligands for non-narcotic analgesics

Systematically studied their structure-activity relationships with modeling analysis

Developed two new methodologies for syntheses of key intermediates as scaffolds to expedite compound library synthesis

Developed a Pd-bisimidazolium salt catalyst system for cross-coupling amination reaction

1995 1998 M.S. (Polymer Chemistry, Wuhan University, China)

1991-1995 B.S. (Chemistry, Wuhan University, China)

PATENTS

1. “Morpholine derivatives as ashless TBN sources and lubricating oil compositions containing same”, EP2366761, US20110224114, JP2011184691, CN102191115, CA2733475, Jacob Emert; Jie Cheng; Jun Hua; etc.

2. “Lubrication and lubricating oil compositions - Monoaryltrialkyl phenylenediamine compds. useful as ashless TBN”, WO 201*******, US20110105374, Jie Cheng, Jacob Emert, Joseph P. Hartley, Robert G. Rowland, Joseph Stieber

3. “Lubrication and lubricating oil compositions containing phenylenediamine derivatives”, EP2319904, US20110105372, JP2011094144, Joseph P. Hartley, Robert G. Rowland, Jie Cheng, Jacob Emert , Joseph Stieber.

4. “Aniline compounds as ashless TBN sources and lubricating oil compositions containing same” US 20100160195A1, EP2206764, JP2010150549, Cheng, Jie; Emert, Jacob.

5. “Additive compositions with Michael reaction of n-substituted phenylendiamines” US20090156448, WO2009076082A1, Tushar Bera, Rolfe Hartley, Jack Emert, Jie Cheng, Theodore E. Nalesnik, Rowland, Robert G.

PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS (Selections from 12 publications)

1. Zimmerman, H. E.; Cheng, J. Control of Stereoselective Protonation of Enols. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 873-882.

2. Cheng, J.; Moore, Z.; Stevens, E. D.; Trudell, M. L. Stereoselective Syntheses of the Three Isomers of Ethylene Glycol Bis(tropane-3-carboxylate). J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 5433-5436.

3. Cheng, J.; Zhang, C.; Stevens, E. D.; Izenwasser, S.; Wade, D.; Chen, S.; Paul, D.; Trudell, M. L. Synthesis and Biological Evaluation at Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors of N-Arylalkyl- and N-Aryl-7-Azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptanes. J. Med. Chem. 2002, 45, 3041-3047.

4. Cheng, J.; Izenwasser, S.; Wade, D.; Trudell, M. L. Synthesis and Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Binding Affinity of Exo- And Endo-2-(Pyridinyloxy-methyl)-7-Azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptanes. Med. Chem. Res. 2001, 10, 356-365.

5. Cheng, J.; Trudell, M. L. Synthesis of N-Heteroaryl-7-azabicyclo[2.2.1]heptanes Derivatives via Palladium-Bisimidazol-2-ylidene Complex Catalyzed Amination Reactions. Organic Lett. 2001, 3, 1371-1374.

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