Accomplishments

PUBLICATIONS

• “Variance Budgeting and Monte Carlo Techniques to Aid Specification Setting” JMP Discovery Summit
• “Rapid Access Color Reversal Film and Process” SMPTE Conference
  
• “Kodak Instagraphic Slide Film” SMPTE Conference

PATENTS

• US5972585 “Color negatives adapted for visual inspection”
  
• US6875563 “Fluorinated Surfactants in Overcoat Compositions and Elements Containing Same”
  

Other Accomplishments

• Major contributions to new manufacturing process with projected first year revenue well above $10 million
• Designed a new product with innovative structure that resulted in $6M/year in new business.
• Led team that developed novel replacement for existing fluorosurfactant to avoid environmental concerns, improve quality and reduce waste.
  
• Designed new simplified formula that enhanced product features and increased productivity by 40%, resulting in multi-million dollar cost reduction.
  
• Led project teams to refine existing technology that reduced cost of materials by $1.5M.
  
• Designed new formula that reduced annual cost by $1.3M while providing new advertising claims
  
• Assisted accreditation of automated line that resulted in savings of $1M/year.
• Developed electrostatic treatment to reduce defects with potential savings of $500K/yr.
• Refined cure requirements of existing system enabling a line speed-up saving $450K/yr.
• Statistical consultant for other engineers and scientists. State-of-the-art products introduced on time and within budget.
  
• Eliminated formula transfer errors saving about $250,000 per year.
  
• Installed innovative learning curve schedule that increased efficiency of new plant start-up.
  
• Integrated ISO-9002 procedures with high performance work teams so that operators made most quality decisions.
  
• Reduced variability of key product measurements by 80%.
  
• Implemented improved formulas to improve product stability.