• Gender: Male
• Age: 53
• Designation: Department Head
• Highest Education Level: Doctrate
• Preferred Country: India
• Preferred Location: Mumbai
• Work Experience: 20.3 Year(s)

Education

Ph.D from National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India in 1999.
M.Sc in Physical Chemistry from Sardar Patel University, India with First Class & Distinction in 1994.
B.Sc in Chemistry from Saurashtra University, India with First Class in 1992.

Skill Sets

Skills in networking with agencies and thereby building a strong repertoire. Ability to provide strategic leadership and create/ manage target portfolio balance.
Profound communication, both written and spoken skill.

Work Experience

Since Aug 2008: Research Team Head
Dec 2007 to Jul 2008: Head of Product for the Design group
Apr 2007 to Nov 2007: Senior Manager
Oct 2002 to Mar 2007: Senior Group Leader
Company Profile : R&D in polymer additives
Job Profile as Research Team Head
Research & Development : Identifying new area of research in co-ordination with marketing teams and also based on the future trends. Preparing project proposals and initiating R&D projects. Managing R&D projects on product and process development with innovative approaches. Implementing improved processes on plant scale via technology transfer. Evaluating of research products with customers via customer-sampling and analysis of customer feedback. Project reporting and documentation. Protecting research outcome via patent filing.
Job Profile as Head of Product For the Design Group
Process Improvement : Ensuring complete in-process quality control and continuous improvement in process capabilities through various techniques. Foreseeing performance bottlenecks and taking corrective measures to avoid the same. Managing process troubleshooting and process improvement leading to improvement in yields, quality, etc.
EHS Management : Formulating plant safety plans, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for new products for ensuring Environment, Health & Safety.
Identifying critical parameters and processes which are hazardous in nature & undertaking steps for curtailing plant fluctuations, emergencies and associated risks. Charting out several safety measures for minimizing occurrence of accidents, fires, calamities conducting investigations for determining basic cause of industrial accidents.
Job Profile as Senior Manager
Strategic Planning Formulating and implementing strategies for achieving annual business research goals for the division & managing overall operations of the unit. Leading teams towards the achievement of organisational goals and industry best practices. Ensuring optimum utilization of the resources and implementing & maintaining the Quality Systems.
Job Profile as Senior Group Leader
Team Management : Directing, leading & motivating workforce and imparting continuous on job training for accomplishing greater operational effectiveness/ efficiency. Resolving interpersonal issues & working towards a harmonious work environment. Training to all employees, pertaining to quality implementation and compliance.

Technical Knowhow :
Additives and active components for plastics, coatings, home and personal care products.
Silicone and fluorine based additives as solvent and dust repellents for polycarbonates.
Hydrophilic/antistatic/dust repellent additives for polyesters.
Functional UV absorbers Triazines and Triazole based Heterocyclic compounds.
Novel anti-oxidants Hindered Phenols, hindered amines.
Polycondensation catalysts Melt Polycondensation and SSP catalysts.
Photocuring agents Triazenes.
Flame retardants Silicone, Sulphur & Phosphorus based compounds.
Photochromic compounds for security.
Photo-oxidation catalysts for laundry.
Adhesion promoters for paint applications.
Design and synthesis of dispersants for mineral fillers.

Synthesis & Characterizations of polymers :
Synthesis using Polycondensation, Radical Polymerization, Graft Copolymerization, Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization, etc.
Preparation Telechelic Polycarbonate Oligomers with well-defined chain length & process development of the same.
Olefin Metathesis: Depolymerisation Polymers to obtain Chiral compounds & synthesis of Telechelic Oligomers.
Synthesis, characterization and hydrolytic degradation of poly(lactic acid) PLA and Dextran-g-PLA Copolymers for controlled drug delivery systems.
Surface segregation & restructuring studies in Polylactides
Surface grafting and characterization
Characterization of polymers using the techniques as MALDI-TOF, HPLC-MS, GC-MS, GPC, DSC, XRD, SEM, NMR, Optical Microscopy, FT-IR and UV spectroscopy.
Expertise in online information and database search, e.g. MDL Crossfire Commander, SciFinder, etc.

Distinctive Accomplishments across the tenure
Spearheaded operations leading the global team (India, Japan, China) was involved in developing dispersants for mineral fillers in polymers
Developed melt additives dispersants with performance similar to that of surface treatment agents silanes.
Excellent results were obtained for 60% magnesium hydroxide filled PP. A patent application is under preparation.
Pivotal role in product and process development of various chromophores, photochromic molecules photo-oxidation catalysts, UV absorbers and anti-oxidants.
Participated as part of the global team involved in developing novel catalysis booster system for melt polycondensation and solid state polycondensation in polyesters. The major challenge was to use non-toxic catalysis system that enhances that the rate of polycondensation without causing discoloration. The achievement was the development of melt polycondensation catalysis system that met the challenges.
Process for producing polyester with metal phosphonic acid complex catalysts, WO/2008/034730
Patent filed on solid state polycondensation catalysts with Ciba Inc.
Involved in developing novel additives that can enhance the hydrophilicity of polyester PET fibers. The major challenge was to develop additives that can have thermal stability at PET processing temperature of 300 C and chemically inert that they do not react with PET at processing temperature.Team has filed one international patent Wettable polyester fibres and fabrics, US20080176475
Developed various melt additives to improve the dust repellence in polycarbonates. I had developed two series of additives: perfluoro and polydimethyl siloxane based additives. The major achievement was to get desired dust repellence at lower additives concentrations while retaining polycarbonate completely transparent. Team has filed two international patents.
Fluorocarbon terminated oligo- and poly-carbonates as surface modifiers, WO2005059006.
Oligo & poly-carbonates terminated with silicon containing groups as surface modifiers, WO2006134045

Future Goals

Work in a professional and challenging environment, bring out value addition to organization that is intellectually simulating and provides opportunities for personal and professional growth.