Paint and Coatings Technical Expert Specializing in Automotive, Industrial, and Architectural Coatings
Technical Consultant #1744
Expertise
- Expert in paint and coatings technology for Automotive, Industrial and Architectural coatings
- Expert Witness services in coatings tort liability cases: Expert Reports filed, Deposition and Trial testimony provided
- Technical support for coatings formulation and application
- Technical training in paint and coatings technology
- Polymers, resins, and oligomer development for coatings
- Structure and property relationships for coating materials
- Painting and coatings testing, weathering, durability and performance expert
- Coatings Raw Materials market supply and sourcing knowledge
- Expertise in the Paint and Coatings Marketplace and the major Coatings Manufacturers worldwide
Expert Witness
- Coatings tort liability where plaintiffs allege exposure to lead pigments. Expert Witness for E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company.
- Patent validity dispute. Expert Witness for Petitioner Reactive Surfaces.
- Toxic tort liability Public Nuisance case for alleged exposure to lead pigments. Served as Expert Witness for E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company.
Experience
Undisclosed Company, Owner, 2010 - Present
- Participated in client's product development team as lead formulator to develop coatings with novel crosslinking to achieve improved surface characteristics. These coatings were successfully commercialized by client.
- Worked with clients to develop novel UV-cure coatings to meet specialized performance attributes.
- Assisted multiple clients in characterizing and mapping performance for new raw materials for use in specialized coating applications.
- Provided guidance to interpret testing results and implications on field performance for client's coating systems.
- Worked with clients to analyze available supply for specific raw materials in the Industrial Coatings market.
- Provided guidance on how clients' products match marketplace needs in the coatings fields.
- Presented an all-day course on coatings technology.
DuPont Company, Wilmington, DE, Philadelphia, PA, and Troy MI, Research Associate, 1987 - 2010
- Reformulated Refinish Basecoat systems to provide improved property and application performance while maintaining color matching capabilities.
- Technical Leader of the Refinish Clearcoat group during the development and commercialization of the DuPont "HyperCure"TM Clearcoat line, that set new standards in the marketplace for productivity.
- Developed a number of new polymers and oligomers with novel structures to enable lower VOC coatings with imporved productivity. Two US Patents awarded.
- Managed technical supplier interactions as Vendor Coordinator. This role included:
- Acting as liaison between suppliers and the technical community to assure DuPont had the best available external technologies.
- Managing raw material supply programs to assure product availability.
- Working to maintain critical technical business relationships with key suppliers.
- Developed and formulated a family of Refinish Clearcoat products, coined "ChromaClear"TM, that were the main brand offering for DuPont Refinish over the span of about a decade. This product line was recognized by the Refinish marketplace as one of the strengths of DuPont Refinish Coatings.
Honors & Publications
Credentials
- Pennsylvania Secondary Teacher Certification in Chemistry
- Six Sigma Green Belt
Academic and Professional Affiliations
- American Chemical Society
- American Coating Association
- Philadelphia ACS Chemical Consultants Network
- Philadelphia Society for Coatings Technology
Awards
- Wayne Kraus Technical Lecture Award Recipient, Philadelphia Society of Coatings Technology
- DuPont Marketing Excellence Recognition Award
Publications and Patents
- Co-author of eleven (11) publications in the journals: Coatings Tech, J. Phys. Chem., J. Mag. Res., ACS Symposium Series, ACS Division of Fuel Chemistry, J. Chem. Eng. Data.
- Five (5) U.S. Patents.
Education
- Pennsylvania Teacher Certification--Chemistry, West Chester University, West Chester, PA
- Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
- B.S. Chemistry, Miami University, Oxford, OH