• Gender: Male
• Age: 38
• Designation: Engineer
• Highest Education Level: Masters - Degree
• Preferred Country: India
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 12.5 Year(s)

Education

Master of Science (Organic Chemistry) From Annasaheb Magar College, University of Pune in 2009 With 63%

Bachelor of Science (Chemistry) From Sir Parashurambhau College, University of Pune in 2007 With 76%

Skill Sets

Experience in project management- Obtained from Work experience
Sense of organisation-Experience in logistics
Job-related skills
Good troubleshooting and analysis skill in ICP-MS and XRD acquired through job experience
Computer skills
Good knowledge of computational chemistry software packages like Material Studio 5.5, Gaussian-Obtained during research experience
Good knowledge of Microsoft office tool (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)-Skill Obtained during leisure activity and work experience.
Other skills
Exploration of places- Skill obtained through voluntary activities

Work Experience

Engineer Characterization
Since Oct 2012
Company Profile: Manufacturer of on-site power generation systems utilize an innovative new fuel cell energy technology.
Job Profile:
Membrane development for Carbon Dioxide separation
Assist in the cross functional responsibility of evaluating failure modes and mechanism, gaining fundamental understanding and developing specifications.
Investigate potential sources of failure and collaborate with stack teams to define failure mechanism and performance improvements.
Develop methods to characterize material behavior under accelerated conditions and models to project degree or severity of degradation

Project Assistant
2009 to Sept 2012
Company Profile: Research, Development And Consulting Organisation with a focus on chemistry and chemical engineering.
Job Profile:
To conduct experiments for Polymer synthesis for membrane casting.
To Investigate potential post synthetic modification to obtain novel class of polymers called “Polymeric Ionic Liquids (PIL’s)”
To cast membranes from synthesized PIL’s and stidy gas separation properties
To investigate the properties of PIL membrane as solid electrolyte for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC).
To carry computational studies on the polymer-gas complex to evaluate complex
Formation energy and stabilization energy
Business or sector Gas and Energy Sector

Publications and Patent
Chemistry Letters, Volume-38,No-7 (2009).
Title:-Preparation of CdSe Quantum dots via thermoplastic of a Novel Single Source CdSe Precursor Derived From Cyclohexeno -1, 2, 3 -Selenographer.

One international patent accepted and published
Titled: Quarternised Polymerization 
International Publication number: WO 2012/035556 A1
International Publication date: 22 March 2012

Presentations     
Actively participated in weekly intro-group presentations conducted on research development and paper presentations organised in National Chemical Laboratories.

Projects        
Currently working with Present Company on various projects like
Synthesis and Characterization of Carbon Dioxide permeation membrane.
Solid Oxide Electrolyte Characterization using techniques like TGA, SEM etc .
Chemical etching studies of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) material. 
Assisted in Chromium extraction and quantification studies.
Method development and validation for trace material evaluation of Solid oxide electrolyte using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectroscopy.
Method development for SOFC material characterization using HT-XRD.
Worked with National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune India as project assistant on project titled “Host Guest type interaction in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) by pore intrusion” since 10th Feb. 2010 to 8th Oct. 2011
Worked as a project student for M.Sc. thesis with Dr. P. K. Khanna in Nano materials 
Laboratory at C-MET, (Govt. of India) Pune from June 2008 to May 2009 as partial fulfillment of M.Sc. degree and worked towards successful preparation and characterization of nano material's (CdSe quantum dots)

Conferences
Poster presentation for poster titled “New approach for synthesizing polymeric forms of ionic liquids (PFILs): Quaternization of polybenzimidazoles” at Indo-Europe workshop on “Recent Development on Membrane for Technology for Industrial Application” held at Chennai, India between 8-10th Feb. 2011.
Poster for Sampada-2008, 2nd International Symposium on Advanced Materials And Polymers For Aerospace And Defense Applications

Seminars
Presented at Intercollegiate Research Seminar Competition at Pune 2009 for M.Sc. project presentation.

Honors and awards
Awarded 2nd best Poster presentation at Indo-Europe workshop on “Recent Development on Membrane for Technology for Industrial Application” held at Chennai, India between 8-10th Feb. 2011.
Second Prize winner at Intercollegiate Research Seminar Competition in 2009.
Co-author for best poster presented at Asian Polymer Association (APA), 2010.

Future Goals

Growth