plastemartjobs.com Email: jobs@plastemart.com, hr@plastemart.com Download Date: 6/3/2025 8:47:48 AM ________________________________________________________________________________________ RefNo: CA - 15011 Gender: Male Age: 44 Designation: Manager Highest Education Level: Doctrate Current Gross Salary: 100000 100000 /Annum Expected Gross Salary: 2400000 2400000 /Annum Notice Period: Days Education Details: Ph. D. Plastics Engineering Dept of Plastics Engineering, from University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA in May 2014 M.S. Plastics Engineering Dept of Plastics Engineering, from University of MassachusettsLowell, MA, USA in May 2010 M.S. Textile Chemistry Dept of Materials and Textiles, from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MA, USA in Jan 2010 Bachelor of Engineering in Textile Processing from Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Gujarat, INDIA. in May 2002 Skill Sets: Research and Development? Work Experience: 18.2 Work Experience Details: Research and Development Manager Since?Aug 2013 Company Profile:?Thermoplastics compounder and concentrate maker.? Job Profile: Manage three compounding lines including continuous mixers, twin screws extruder, single screw extruders with pelletizers Responsible for new product development, and mentor two compounding professionals, and one quality control professional Co-ordinate with sales team to provide technical support to existing product line to the customers Analyze and evaluate customer complain, and assist in troubleshooting ? Lab Manager May 2011 To May 2013 Company Profile:?Thermal ? mechanical property characterization Lab Job Profile: Responsible for calibration, maintenance, consulting, and training of TA instruments (Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC), Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer (DMA), Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA), Torque rheometer (ARES)), and Bose Eudoratec DMA Co-op Experience May 2008 To Aug 2008 Plastic Diversity Solutions Inc Job Profile: Member of a ?Tiger team?, which was responsible for end ? to ? end trace ability process of material from warehouse to shipping and testing. Integration and commissioning of statistically process controlled F -80 Banbury coupled with a dual pelletized and strip compounding line Aug 2003 To May 2006 Industrial Collaboration Job Profile: Titleist, Fairhaven MA ? Mechanical testing of different varieties of golf balls and golf ball cores for hysteresis curve comparison FifieldInc, Hingham MA ? Quantitative analysis of unknown coating material in artificial leather samples using FTIR Klear Vu, Fall River, MA ? Developed SpillguardTM coating finish using polyurethane material coated upholstery fabric material Research Assistant Aug 2006 To July 2013 National Science Foundation (NSF) Job Profile: Working on various National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects at Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) Developing wet fiber spinning line for fiber spinning with various nano fillers for Raytheon Investigating different aspect of 3D polymer printing for various applications Investigating effect of different filler type and concentration on electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding effectiveness? Developing new technique to orient nano particles on the polymer surface using electrostatic field Service Learning Integrated through College of Engineering (SLICE) projects providing alternative cheaper commodity product solution for Peruvian people Research Assistant June 2004 To Dec 2007 Company Name:?National Textile Center Job Profile: Fracture toughness of through-thickness of composites -Improved fracture toughness by z-directional short fiber between two laminate layers using electrostatic flocking principles by 20% without losing in-plane material properties Electrostatic web formation ? Developed a design to produce well oriented short fiber web parallel to the desired direction using pneumatic and electrostatic principle Compact fiber-based bioconversion/biofilter system ? Designed lab scale water and bio filtration system to study various newly developed flocked fiber based filtration media Coated and Laminated fabric for Fuel cell ? Reviewed possible polymeric material for PEM Fuel cell membrane replacement from traditional Nafion? material Technical Expertise Material properties: Instron tensile testing, MaagFlockmeschinen fiber pull-out tester, Brookfield Viscometer, Torque Rheometer, Dynamic Mechanical Analysis, Thermogravimetric Analysis, Differential Scanning Calorimetry Spectroscopy / Microscopy:Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), CCD high speed camera, Video Microscopy, Optical Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy Simulation and design: ANSYS, SOLIDWORKS, COMSOL Publications? Y. Kim, J. Rice, K. Langley, A. Lewis, A. Seyam, S. Pawar, M. Kumbhani, A. Hassanin and T. Hamouda, ?Engineered Reinforced Structures from Short Fibers?, Principal Investigator, NTC Project: F08-MD01 M. Kumbhani, J. Rice, Y. Kim, ?Reinforcement Preform Architecture for Short Fiber Reinforced Composites Using Triboelectic, Electrostatic and Pneumatic Principles?, Society of Engineering Mechanics (SEM)conference proceedings, October, 2010 L.Feng, M. Kumbhani, Y. Kim, J. Rice, "Fracture Behavior of Flock Fiber Reinforced Laminar Composite", Journal of Material Science and Engineering, vol. 1, issue 1, June 2011 L. Feng, M. Kumbhani, Y. Kim, A. Lewis, J. Rice, ?Micromechanics of z-directional micro-fiber reinforcement?, Journal Advanced Material, Issue 1, Jan 2010 Conference Presentations M. Kumbhani, C. Barry, J. Mead, ?Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) shielding properties of short carbon fiber/Multiwall Carbon Nanotube(MWCNT) in polyurethane matrix?, 178th Annual ACS Rubber division conference, October 2010 A. Kumar, M. Kumbhani, C. Barry, J. Mead, ?Effect of recycled tire regrind as a filler in butyl rubber matrix?, 176th ACS Rubber conference, October 2009 Poster presentations at NTC annual meeting, March 2005, February 2006 Leadership Experience Graduate Council Member Aug 2009 To Aug 2010 Represented graduate student body from UMass Lowell at Center for High-rate Nano manufacturing, and NSF meetings Assistant Resident Director / Resident Advisor ? ? ? ? Jan 2007 To May 2012 Working as a team member and leader for residence life staff, and worked as a mentor for resident students Orientation Lead May 2007 To Aug 2007 Worked in a team of orientation leaders for incoming freshmen and provided information and guidance Professional Affiliation? American Association of Textile Chemist and Colorist (AATCC) (2003 ? 2005) Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) (2005 ? 2006) Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) (2007 ? 2009, 2014 - Present) Material Research Society (MRS) (2009 ? 2010) American Chemical Society (ACS) Rubber division (2009 ? 2011) Research Interest Fiber reinforced composite material manufacturing and testing, Electrostatic orientation of particles, Fracture mechanics, Nano-composite, EMI shielding materials, Fiber spinning, Micro-tooling, Additive manufacturing Future Goals: Goal is to lead a group of highly skilled and motivated individual to achieve research and development at the highest level of quality. ________________________________________________________________________________________