Jun 2020 – Nov 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Defining Sustainability Vision, Strategy, Execution plan with the team for the IMEA region. Leading cross-functional team (Commercial, Supply chain, R&D, Sourcing, Manufacturing etc.) for all the business processes in the area of sustainability.
• Proud to be driving these initiatives: "Creating Solutions for a Sustainable World" and "To Make Our World a Better Place".

May 2018 – Nov 2023 · 5 yrs 6 mos

• Leading strategic initiative projects for the organization to enter to new market globally by partnering with strategic marketing, global marketing director and external marketing consulting firm.
• Defining technology and marketing strategy for new market application both in short term and long term by partnering with technology consulting firm and strategic marketing.
• Leading Corporate R&D projects to deliver innovative and differentiated product portfolio to enhance the market share.
• Leading open innovation projects and create new technologies by partnering with different academics (IITs, IISc) and other organizations.
• Leading development of multiple adjacency and transformational technologies across the organization for multiple applications.

Jan 2018 – May 2018 · 4 mos

Jan 2013 – Dec 2017 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Leading technology platform projects on functional coatings with multi-generational product concept for automotive applications
• Leading ideation projects which led to the platform research program to manage the present need and also incubated technology pipeline to create the future opportunities
• Enabled Innovation consistently by delivering technology and product with differentiated performance attributes leading to multiple new inventions and innovation contest awards
• Enabled next gen proprietary technology development and delivered proprietary and viable technologies for global markets
• Developing technology strategy and intellectual property (IP) strategy to align with business strategy
• Creating intellectual property
• Providing technical support to the customer and understand market need
• Collaborating with cross-functional team across Globe to execute different milestones for multiple projects
• Leveraging Six sigma for improving efficiency on multiple area
• Evaluated different institutes for outsourcing; led efforts for enabling signing of agreement with them and led the project (e.g IISc.)
• Hiring and mentoring IISc students for short term project
• Winner of Global Inspiration award in 2017 in the category of Willingness to Act in EHS,Momentive Performance Materials
• Innovation contest award nominator in 2016, India Technology Center, Momentive Performance Materials (India)
• Winner of innovation contest award in 2014, India Technology Center, Momentive Performance Materials (India)
• Core team member of multiple Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Management Team and making sure lab and center follows EHS compliance

Aug 2012 – Dec 2012 · 4 mos

• Designed & developed different analytical methods for which drastically reduced the testing time and significantly improved the product development cycle
• Plans, develops, and conducts the experiments to characterize different properties as per need of project.
• Problem solving and method development for all on-going research projects.
• Six sigma green belt certified
• Won innovation contest award in 2012, India Technology Center, Momentive Performance Materials (India)

May 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Facilitated the transition process from JFWTC, GE to ITC, Momentive through multiple activities
• Enabled development of new silicone chemistry, new product in market in personal care and coating application
• Owned materials characterization for silicone division
• Global key contact in Momentive for microscopy
• Identified local laboratory and institutes to bridge the gap between in-house capability and analytical need and enabled signing of NDA for collaboration work

Jan 2007 – Apr 2011 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Developed different types of barrier coatings for different applications while working under JDA for 4.5 yrs with large size (>USD 10B Revenue) and medium size customer(s)
• Enabled technology development for Water-based Nanocomposite Barrier Coating (Nanolok™ WR) which has been accepted by customer and technology is licensed to the customer
• Designed & developed different analytical methods for barrier coatings which drastically reduced the testing time and significantly improved the product development cycle
• Developed a method to measure the thickness of very thin coating (< 0.3 um) in-house based on in-house capability which can be used for monitoring the thickness (online) during production cycle
• Contributing to the team’s efforts to improve InMat’s technology and demonstrating its commercial viability in the packaging industry by performing the following responsibilities:
• Plans, develops, and conducts the experiments to characterize different properties of base films, paperboards, nanocomposite coated films and laminates for packaging and other applications.
• Developing new or improved products, and develop new applications.
• Problem solving and method development for all on-going research projects.

Sep 2003 – Nov 2006 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Supervised Polymer Mechanical Testing and Rheology Laboratory (PMRL), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA.
• Development of polymer nanocomposites as sustainable packaging materials, substrates for flexible display, flame retardant materials and biodegradable materials.
• Processed polymer and polymer nanocomposites of bulk films using compression molding, and thin films by spin casting method.
• Supervised TAMS (Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science) student.
• Experienced in the following characterization equipments: Permeability Measurements, Optical Profilometry, MTS Tensile Tester, Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA), Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA), Thermo Mechanical Analysis (TMA), Rheometer, Micro hardness, Tribometer.
• South Texas Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers Scholarship, 2006.
• Academic achievement Scholarship, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas (September 2003-May 2005).
• Summer Scholarship, College of Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 2006.
• Raupe Scholarship, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 2005.
• Texas Public Education Grant (TPEG) scholarship, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 2005

Feb 2002 – Aug 2003 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Highly conducting doped poly-Si deposited by hot wire CVD and its applicability as gate material for CMOS devices
• Fabricating MEM cantilever as a diagnostic cardiac markers