BUSINESS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Identified new business opportunities, resulting in restructuring and consolidation of business and marketing efforts, as member of three man interdisciplinary team (chemist, chemical engineer, and marketing manager) that analyzed critical success factors for expanding plastics additives business.
  
• Managed migration and enhancement of computerized IDEA database, which was used as the focal point for submitting new project ideas. Set standards for user-interface and data structures which were adopted by subsequent projects.
  
• Defined Idea Development Process and co-authored seventy-page manual to guide projects from conception to commercialization. Applied Stage/Gate principles to our business needs.
  
• Managed the design, programming and installation of a computerized client/server database application to provide enterprise-wide access to R&D project information. Resulted in efficiency improvements of $250,000 annually.
  

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