High Performance Carbon Fiber and Composites Consultant (1280)
Expertise
Market and technology studies for high performance fibers and composites.
Use of and properties of carbon fiber and carbon fiber composites.
Applications and processing of carbon fiber composites.
Experience
Managing Director of a privately-held corporation specializing in sizing, coating, and chopping of high-performance fibers (1994 - present).
Principal Scientist on Phase 1 and Phase 2 SBIR programs for NSF and Air Force Material Laboratory (2006 - present).
Founder and Principal Investigator of a company that conducts single-client studies on the markets and technologies of high performance fibers and composites.
More than 50 clients, worldwide, have called related to technical and market opportunities for carbon fiber and composites.
Exxon, New Venture Division 1972 - 1980
Consultant, Marketing Manager and Director of Advance Planning.
The carbon fiber and composite activities of this company were subsequently acquired by DuPont (Conoco) and Cytec.
Narmco (now Cytec), Department Manager, Research Division of Narmco 1968 - 1972
Developed high temperature resins and composite structures under government contracts.
Responsible for one of the first carbon fiber prepreg lines.
Rockwell Division, North American Aviation. Senior Scientist 1961 - 1968
Developed high temperature polymers for rocket motor applications.
Hughes Aircraft Company, Senior Scientist and Section Manager, Research Laboratories 1956 - 1961
Developed high temperature resins for electronic applications under government contracts
Honors & Publications
Two books on high temperature polymers, a major monograph on pitch-based carbon fibers, and nearly 100 papers and patents
Active member of several technical and trade groups, including SAMPE, ACS, SAE, and SACMA
Chairman, Gordon Research Conference on Polymers
Lecturer at Clemson University, North Carolina State University, and Intertech Conferences on Carbon Fiber (1998 - 2006)
Education
PhD, Polymer Chemistry, and post graduate studies, University of Southern California
MS, Analytical Chemistry, University of Minnesota
BS, Chemistry, University of Minnesota