Natalee Smith

About Natalee Smith

Natalee is a Jamaican-born organic chemist powered by sunshine and vitamin D. She is passionate about encouraging exploration, curiosity and building resilient, diverse communities in the fields of both STEM and the Arts. She has 10 years of experience in providing technical leadership in product development and activities aimed at harmonizing and safeguarding the quality of polyurethane products manufactured at multiple global sites.

Experience

1. R & d Lab & Technical Product Manager

   科思创

   Jul 2025 — Present

   Lead technical direction and project management with a sustainability focus, driving collaboration among internal and external stakeholders in Sales, Product Management, Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs, Analytics, and Applications Development.Regularly coach and mentor associate scientists and lab technicians, manage daily lab operations, and drive career development.Regional Technical Product Manager for polyurethane dispersions, hybrids and specialty raw materials.

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

  The Advanced Leadership Institute (TALI), Emerging Leaders Program

  2021 — 2022

• University of Delaware

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Synthetic Organic Chemistry

• Bryn Mawr College

  A.B., Chemistry

Skills

• Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (Lc-Ms)
• High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (Hplc)
• Characterization
• Nmr Spectroscopy
• Spectroscopy
• Analytical Chemistry
• Nmr
• Mass Spectrometry
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (Nmr)
• Catalysis
• Ir Spectroscopy
• Organic Chemistry
• Organic Synthesis
• Ftir
• Hplc
• Purification
• Uv/Vis
• Lc-Ms
• Chemistry
• Process Simulation
• Uv/Vis Spectroscopy
• Ir
• Synthetic Organic Chemistry
• Analytical and Semi Preparatory Hplc
• Chromatography