Expertise

• Controlled release technology for pharmaceutical and pesticide products.
• Controlled release coatings on tablets and vascular stents.
• Pesticide chemistry and technology; radioactive brachytherapy seeds.
• Polymer synthesis, polymer films, polymer manufacturing, polymer gels and chemical reactions on polymers.
• Analysis of chemical incidents (fires, explosions and chemical exposure).
• Expert witness and litigation support.

Experience

Independent Consultant, 1993 - Present

• To chemical manufacturers, medical institutions and attorneys relating to chemical formulation polymers and processes, chemical hazards, products liability and patent infringement.
• Controlled release coatings on tablets and vascular stents.
• Controlled release coatings and formulations for pesticide products.
• Extensive deposition and trial experience.

E. I. DuPont de Nemours, Co., Wilmington, DE, 1955 - 1992

Biochemicals and Agricultural Products Department, 1972 - 1992

Research Fellow, 1990 - 1992

• Synthesis of new pesticides and organic intermediates, process development.
• Process improvements, novel formulations (liquid dry flowables, granulation, microemulsions), focusing on novel controlled release technology.
• Controlled release coatings and formulations for pesticide products.
• Consultant to manufacturing and legal sections.

Research Associate and Group Leader, 1972 - 1990

• Administrative and personal laboratory work related to leading a team scouting new types of biochemical formulations and pesticide products.
• Consultant to research management, marketing and manufacturing functions.
• Legal - assisted in preparation of hundreds of patents, developing patent strategy, coaching expert witnesses.

Film Department, Research Chemist and Research Supervisor, 1955 - 1972

• Exploratory and process studies directed towards new plastic films for packaging, agriculture and electrical applications.
• Films for vinyl replacement and glass replacement (i.e.polymeric stabilizers for polyolefins and intraocular lenses).
• Fuel cell films, membranes and separators.
• High temperature films for industrial and aerospace applications, photocrosslinkable polymers, polymer blends and chemically modified polymers for specialty films; administrative work as research supervisor.

Honors & Publications

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• American Institute of Chemists, Controlled Release Society
• Guest lecturer at American and German Chemical Societies, Gordon Research Conference
• Appointed by the Governor of Delaware to the Delaware Environmental Appeals Board.

Publications and Patents

• Inventor/author of over 70 patents, patents pending and publications.
• Written chapters in books.

Education

• Ph. D., Organic Chemistry, Florida State University, Synthesis of Furan and Pyrrole Analogs of Isoquinolines
• M. S., Physical Organic Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Inst.,
• B. A., Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University