Expertise

• Paint and polymer analysis and testing.
• Measurement of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) in paints and related materials.
• Laboratory information management systems (LIMS).
• Pharmaceutical analytical and QC laboratories.
• Laboratory certification.
• Managing and standardizing pharmaceutical stability testing.
• Project management.
• Quality management/continuous improvement.
• Streamlining laboratory operations.
• Improving laboratory measurement results.
• Expert witness.

Experience

Independent Consultant, 1994 - Present

• Assignments have included setting up a quality system for a small paint company, expert witness support and insurance claims support involving coatings and polymers, laboratory certification for a pharmaceutical firm, team leader on an ANDA project.
• Director and instructor in short courses in VOCs and HAPs in paint and other products, and problem solving in chemical analysis.

The CECON Group, Inc., Wilmington, DE, Vice President, 1995 - Present

• Administration and management of consulting assignments in all aspects of science and engineering, with a specialty in pharmaceuticals and coatings.

The DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co., Wilmington, DE, Associate Director, 1991 - 1994

• Organized and led a project to optimize, standardize and computerize stability operations throughout DuPont Merck to streamline company development and manufacturing analytical operations and reduce operating costs by $3.5MM/yr.

E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, DE and Philadelphia, PA , 1962 - 1991

Senior Research Associate

• Designed and implemented one of the first research and development LIMS applications in DuPont.
• Organized Corporate LIMS resources throughout DuPont.
• Led department-wide measurement quality improvement project for paints and polymers.
• Upgraded department's methods management system.
• Co-developed DuPont method management "best practice."
• Authored and co-authored some of the VOC methods now mandated by EPA for paint.
• Organized an international symposium on the analysis of paint and related materials and edited a book based on it.

Quality Manager

• Established quality systems and worked with top management in marketing, manufacturing, research and development,finance and international to identify and reduce $50-$100MM in costs associated with poor quality in a $2 billion department.
• Reduced out of specification shipments 10 fold.
• Set up and managed systems to teach, measure and manage quality performance in marketing, manufacturing and research and development primarily in paints, polymers and fabricated products.

Research Supervisor

• Managed large analytical and physical measurement group for paints and polymers.
• Doubled output and reduced turnaround times without increasing budget.

Staff Chemist

• Provided technical support for 10 QC labs.
• Developed one of the first standard tests for lead in paint.
• Developed and implemented QC test package for antifreeze.
• Invented new kind of laundry bleach.

Research Chemist

• First in company to apply polarography, recording titrimetry, ion selective electrodes, thin layer chromatography, and atomic absorption spectroscopy to paint problems.ption spectroscopy to paint problems.

Honors & Publications

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• ASTM International - D01, Paints and related materials
• American Chemical Society - Past Chairman of 5000 member Section
• Founder of Chemical Consultants Network - the first organization for consultants in ACS

Publications

• W. C. Golton, Editor, "Analysis of Paints and Related Materials: Current Techniques for Solving Coatings Problems" ASTM STP #1119

Education

• Ph.D. Analytical Chemistry, University of Iowa
• B.S. Chemistry, University of Kentucky