Laura S.

Experience

1. Director of Science & Technology

   Polymer Chemistry Innovations

   Dec 2021 — Present · Tucson, AZ, US

   Manage creation and support of intellectual property to protect current IP, new materials, products, and processes. • Manage stage gate process for new product, new vendor qualification and product scale up with third party vendors. • Plans and conducts feasibility studies on new materials, products and systems and works with marketing to advance selected programs from feasibility to commercial launch. • Provide technical expertise and assistance by answering questions and requests from other areas of the company. • Engages company personnel at all levels, including soliciting observations from engineering, marketing, and manufacturing. • Contributes to team efforts by accomplishing project objectives on or ahead of schedule. • Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, networking, and participating in professional societies. • Present Research studies to senior stakeholders • Improved a proprietary polymerization process resulting in 16% increase in yield while reducing impurities to low ppm, thereby increasing product line profits and efficiency. • Guided customers through successfully developing more than four product lines globally and concurrently developed application notes in metal quenching, fiber sizing, adhesives, and binders.

Education

• Lewis & Clark College

  Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry

• The University of Arizona

  Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry