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Experienced in chemical process improvement, Expert has reduced the fouling of manufacturing equipment using variables like pH, temperature, inhibitors for chemical process troubleshooting and process optimization.This helped in reducing production down time and saving money. He has improved analytical instruments, methods for more sensitivity. He has used GC, GC/MS, FTIR, UV/ VIS, AA etc for forensic, pollution, manufacturing control analysis.Worked on processes involving formaldehyde, alkyl benzene, acrylonitrile, polymers-polyacrylonitrile, polyethylene, and polyvinyl chloride etc. He also did new product development, setting up experiments, formulations research developement using thixotropic agents, antioxidants, surfactants, and flame retardants including Intumiscent coatings formulation/Engineering. He has done accelerated testing, aging, product stability studies on formulations including polymers using UV, High temp, Salt spray etc. Has helped Attorneys in PATENT filing, as Expert Witness in Toxic exposure cases, Infringement-by cracking formulations, toxic tort defence, product liability, medical malpractice cases-- never lost one such case yet. Has done CNBR (Chemical, Nuclear, Biological, Radiation) Security Analysis and Safety Analysis of Buildings in case of terrorist attack/hazardous waste chemical storage explosion, focusing on Vulnerability, Independent audit, PPE, detection equipment, remediation and neutralization. Has backed and trained technical sales, service sales people. Resolved disputes between company and customer, EPA(pollution control), OSHA (worker safety) Governent Agencies. As Financial Advisor helped in increasing survivability of business via diversification after business analysis, technical analysis, competitor and market analysis, new product marketing/sales improvement, technology transfer and profitable sale of money loosing technologies to enhance share holder value. Proficient in 5 foreign languages including Spanish and German.

As FREELANCE WRITER, he has done writting/editing Proposals, a Management book, technical writing, brainstorming to write sales/marketing brochure, Health Newsletter writing and serving as information source expert for Journalist. He has writtten a proposal for pollution-free Titanium extraction process from Lunar soil (rich in TiO2) and won the NASA grant. Expert has researched, written proposal to MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT(MP), at his request, recommending novel methods/technologies for better/faster remediation of future 9/11(NY), 26/11(Mumbai) type terrorist attacks- aimed at saving lives & property, copy also provided to US Government,where upon he recieved very positive feedback. Also asked by MP, Expert wrote a technical information report on Pros and cons of signing Nuclear Agreement(123) with the US - covering possible hazards from illegal nuclear waste dumping and nuclear threat from China. Has made sale/marketing PRESENTATION in Spanish and English to Managers from Occidental Petroleum, Peru and USA, closing the sale of specialty chemical, worth 2 million dollars.He has been a winner of National Science Talent Award. Strengths in broad knowledge base-as part of Team/Board member or as single resource, troubleshooting, problem solving, analytical and innovative thinking.

Researched and authored a Report to US Govt---- LESSONS LEARNED FROM 9/11(NY) AND 26/11(Mumbai), Security Technological Strategies to minimize loss of life (also applicable to Business Security). Received positive feedback.

Currently Advisor/ Expert Witness on Nuclear Radiation Death/Criminal Negligence Exposure case by Cobalt-60 Gamma Radiator.

To stay competitive in today's shrinking global markets, Expert believes it is crucial to know about competitor products or products that have equivalent performance yet lower raw material costs. Expert has cracked competitor formulations and developed improved and cheaper products. He has successfully completed complex analysis using some analytical chemistry knowledge, experience backed by analytical chemistry instrumentation, and in some instances, discovered the copying of formulations by competitors in violation of patents or secrecy agreements.

Expert has performed corrosion studies and chemical accident risk/liability reduction studies by checking incompatible chemicals storage reactions. He has analyzed the effect of operation variables and pH on different polymers and coatings such as polyesters, polyethylene, polypropylene, PVC, PBT, PVDF, silicones, etc.

Expert has hands-on experience with a variety of analytical instrumentation. He has worked with GC, GC/MS (including Finnigan 4500, HP 5972A with Wiley Library of 138,000 compounds), TIMS, Pyr-MS, FTIR, UV-VIS, AA/AE, ICP, TGA, DSC, TLC, T8E, SEM, injection molding, ion selective electrode systems etc. He has helped clients save money by assisting in making prudent instrumentation purchase decisions.

Expert has advised on the set-up of analytical laboratories and exhaust hoods, selection of instrumentation, and lease or purchase decisions based on tax advantage/time duration of project or technology obsolesence. Of particular importance is personnel safety; Expert has found many labs that had inadequate fume hoods or unsafe storage of incompatible chemicals.

He has used AA/AE for metals analysis in waste waters, oil, refinery products, and competitive materials analysis.

Expert enjoys troubleshooting chemical operations. In one case involving a monomer synthesis, the chemical engineers had made it exactly the same way for 20 years--which caused plugging of distillation columns. Cleaning the columns caused the plant to be shut down for three weeks every year, costing millions, and Expert was told it was unavoidable and not to try to fix it. However, Expert noticed a poly-ACN peak in his analysis (using pyrolysis GC/MS). He recommended changes in pH and inhibitors, which not only stopped the plugging but also increased heat transfer.

Expert has developed chemical processes, improved them, advised on safety aspects to minimize worker exposure to hazardous chemicals, and scaled them up from laboratory to large scale.

Expert has advised personnel on the toxicity and the chemical accident potential of a given process. He once served as Safety Auditor/Officer, where duties included looking for safety problems in a plant.


Have done chemical safety training to teach technicians & chemical engineers. This comes naturally to me since I have worked as Ad. Professor in Chemistry and understand that retention of information is as important the mechanics of training and many times during an emergency there may be no time to page through voluminous procedures. Have done PPE training and carcinogenicity awareness training.

He has analyzed problems through contaminant product GC/MS measurements and found materials causing process problem-changed ph, temperature etc for faster production

Expert has INCREASED SALES by acting as a technical representative suporting sales people in the field. He has also acted as a liaison with government agencies, including the USDA, EPA, OSHA, and TNRCC, saving Companies from huge fines/penalties. In one case client company spilled little sodium dichromate, in desert. EPA threatened penalty-- panicked VP approached Expert. Expert requested soil analysis at site and randomly in other parts of the desert. Expert found background Chromium(VI) level in rest of desert was well above 5ppm--informed EPA about it--- resolving the dispute. He has resolved disputes between sellers and buyers because of off-specification shipments. Expert has INCREASED BUSINESS by attracting $4 million worth of corrosion inhibitor business from a British Petroleum project in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska by developing a new flow-through analytical technique for a pipeline. Expert made presentations (in Spanish) to engineers from Occidental Petroleum, Peru to complete the sale of corrosion, scale inhibitors, and oil-field demulsifiers, which was close to $1 million. This sale occurred not because of superiority of products, but because the customer complained of difficulty in communicating with engineers of a competitor about their needs. Expert has investigated reactor explosions. One case involved exothermic cyanide polymerization which caused fatalities. Another case involved a defective refinery formulation which an inexperienced chemist had developed in the laboratory. The chemist did not realize the formulation was explosive and capable of causing fatalities. Both instances were preventable. INCREASED SAFETY by making prudent recommendations.He investigated a preventable poisonous HCN cloud released because of negligence of a poorly trained contractor, causing several million dollars loss to the manufacturer because of resultant down time plus death of workers who climbed in a tank in which defective analyzer indicated zero cyanide. Presented air sampling analysis to court thus DEFENDING the COMPANY from million dollar liability.