Senior Develpoment Chemist

Clifford Rubinstein

SUMMARY

Senior Development Chemist with experience in new product development, pigmentation, customer service, supervision, and operations support. Proven ability to reformulate for product effectiveness and lower cost. Works well independently but prefers a team effort.

LAB SUPERVISOR for Delta Coatings, Melrose Park, Illinois from 9/2002 to 11/2007:

New Product Development-General Industrial

· New product formulation, scale up, and modification for customer application as needed

· Extensive developmental work in water reducible, high solids compliant, and conventional coatings. Also formulation of UV, 2K urethanes, epoxies, phenolics, and latexes.

· Excel at understanding the relationship between customer online problems and lab solutions

· Excel at minimizing formula costs

· Formulate systems that several different customers run without modification

· Keep formulas simple and clear

Quality Control Supervisor - supervise plant QC

Operations Support/Customer Service

· Responsible for maintaining computer system, and producing batch tickets and MSDS's

· Evaluation of customer and plant problems, resolution, and product modification

· Eliminate rework and obsolete raw materials

· Keep formulas concise so plant can manufacture accurately and precisely

· Optimize production for equipment on-hand, keeping hiring to a minimum

· Maintain excellent customer relationships

Color

· Numerous color matches, most without lab work, with excellent results

· Formulas set up so shaders have maximum flexibility and minimal problems getting color

SENIOR DEVELOPMENT CHEMIST, Technical Coatings Company, Melrose Park; 1984 to 5/2002

New Product Development

· New product formulation, scale up, and modification for customer application as needed

· Extensive development work in water reducible and high solids compliant coatings

Ran exterior drum enamel program for 16 years

· In addition, 2k urethanes, latexes, epoxies, epoxy esters, and conventional solvent

· Excel at understanding the relationship between online problems and lab solutions

· Formulate systems that several different customers run without modification

· Formulate coatings for drums, pails, wagons, furniture, stadium and dining room chairs, lighting fixtures, metal shelving, magnetic cores, tank coatings, consumer appliances, brass coatings, tool boxes, power tool enclosures, barbecue grills, and cattle gates among others

Operations Support/Customer Service

· Evaluation of customer and plant problems, resolution, and product modification

· Answer questions from customers, plant, purchasing, sales, shipping, lab manager, chemists, lab technicians, QC, Tech service, and company facilities nationwide

· Actively reduce level of rework

· Customer service in customer's plant and in Tech Coating's lab

· Maintain excellent customer relationships

· Help customers and plant to implement cost effective measures such as minimizing inventory

Supervision

· Supervised small batch department and technicians for three years

· Advised technicians, Quality Control, and production as needed

· Designated backup lab manager

Color

· Numerous color matches, most without lab work, with excellent results

· Technical Coatings lab expert on pigment properties and pigment dispersing

· Responsible for lab work starting up color computer/spectrophotometer

UARCO Business Forms, Barrington, Illinois: 1981-1984

Formulated hot melt carbon paper ink for high speed application

Responsible for improvement and problem solving in flexographic printing process

Supervised lab technician

Dyall Products/Lawter Chemical, Addison, Illinois: 1978-1981

Formulated wax compounds for printing inks

Lab supervisor

Responsible for Quality Control

Borden Chemical, St. Charles, Illinois: 1976-1978

Formulated Gravure and flexographic printing inks, with some offset inks

Color matches

Customer service including in plant

Thiele-Engdahl, Inc., Addison, Illinois: 1975-1976

Formulated Gravure printing ink

Color matches

Member of Corporate Developmental Lab

EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science, University of South Florida; Tampa, Florida

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