Mark Alpeter

About Mark Alpeter

Senior Technology leader and Systems Development specialist seeking executive management role where he can leverage his extensive experience, knowledge and skills to drive innovation, value, and success for an ambitious, growing organization Career Highlights • Highly analytical and innovative technology development leader who has disrupted the status quo with new and improved solutions in high-tech spaces by thinking outside the box to solve complex problems • Oversaw $50M global network of process analyzers supporting Dow plastics manufacturing quality control, achieving high ROI, saving millions in quality control costs and transforming the data quality culture • Standardized and streamlined production quality control by harmonizing all product specs in the $20B Dow plastics business as leader of black-belt Six Sigma project; fixed discrepancies with ~80% of specs • Added $100M+ in EBITDA leading the development and implementation of a custom defect analyzer system capable of detecting and quantifying microscopic defects, enabling an expanded product portfolio • Saved $5M/year by pioneering the development and global implementation of a universal AI modeling process for predictive quantitative analysis that increased model life expectancy from months to years • Increased $5M+ in annual EBITDA after developing an industry-leading analytical method for measuring pellet fines levels leading to process improvements that reduced finished product fines levels by 70% • Boosted profits by millions of dollars after resolving decade-long issue that reduced customer scrap and increased production capacity by identifying root cause of product foaming performance variability • Saved $15M/year in manufacturing costs by standardizing color measurement across Union Carbide and Dow; implemented a common analyzer, uniform analytical method, and harmonized specs • Founded a plastics analytics integration and consulting company providing unique, cost-effective, solutions for manufacturers to generate consistent and reliable data for quality control

Experience

1. President & Chief Technology Officer

   Paraclete Solutions

   Jul 2021 — Present · Victoria, TX, US

   Responsible for the company vision and strategy for the development of a sustainable multi-generational integrated analytical platform with a migration pathway from the off-line (lab) to at-line (analyzer house) and ultimately on-line (process) for providing actionable, accurate, and reliable data for accelerating the automated process control of product quality for plastics producers and compounders.

Education

• Oral Roberts University

  B.S., Chemistry

  1983 — 1987

Skills

• Resin
• Analytical Chemistry
• Optics
• Photonics
• Process Analytical Technology
• Polymers
• Extrusion
• Characterization
• Optical Sorting
• Plastics
• Defect Identification
• Spectroscopy
• Thermoplastics
• Chromatography
• Ftir
• Real-Time Data Acquisition
• Materials Science
• Additives
• Chemical Engineering
• Rheology
• R&D
• Process Ftir Modeling
• Contamination Control
• Melt Elasticity
• Color Measurement
• Visual Basic
• Process Simulation
• Catalysis
• Six Sigma
• Chemistry
• Polymer Science
• Polymer Characterization
• Project Management
• Gas Chromatography
• Adhesives
• Organic Chemistry
• Process Optimization
• Design of Experiments
• Manufacturing
• Microsoft Excel