Expertise

Automotive Coatings

• OEM clear topcoats for flexible substrate
• Color keyed electroconductive primers for flexible substrate
• Direct inmold decorative processes for flexible substrate (skunk works with GM)
• Pigment quality assessment and specifications

Automotive Chemical Specialties

• "Rain Dance" and "Rally" polishes
• "Zerex" coolant
• Dupont cooling system corrosion inhibitors and sealants

Automotive Refinish Degreasers "Prep Sol II"

Child resistant closures for automotive coolant containers

Personal Products

• "Reach" toothbrush
• Dupont combs and brushes

Household Chemical Specialities

• Liquid (Chlorosulfamate) and dry (persulfate) laundry bleaches
• "Right" fabric softener
• Scouring systems and cellulose sponges
• R&D Organizational Concepts
• High performance product development laboratory structure and equipment

Experience

Presently INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

With expertise in automotive paint and car care product formulation and testing

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

• E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Philadelphia, PA

RESEARCH CHEMIST

• Colgate-Palmolive Co., Jersey City, New Jersey, Household detergent products development

Honors & Publications

PATENTS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Three patents and an ASTM procedure

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• American Oil Chemist Society; Emeritus member
• American Chemical Society: Central New Mexico Sec.
• ASTM D-1 Paint and Related Materials Gloss and Goniophotometry, Task Group Chairman
• ASTM D-10 Packaging
• ASTM D-21 Polishes
• ASTM E-18 Sensory Evaluation
• ASTM E-12 Appearance of Materials
• ASTM D-2 Petroleum Products and Lubricants
• ASTM C-28 Advanced Ceramics
• ASTM F-15 Consumer Products
• Rocky Mountain Society for Coatings Technology

Education

• BS, Chemistry, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY,