• Gender: Male
• Age: 43
• Designation: Fresh/Entry Level
• Highest Education Level: Masters - Degree
• Expected Gross Salary: INR  250000 /Annum
• Preferred Country: India
• Work Experience: 15.8 Year(s)

Education

M.Se Plastics Engg from University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA 3.41/4.0 -2008
BE Polymer Engg from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune 60.6 (Agg: 55.76) - 2004
HSC from Sou. Vimalabai Garware Jr. College, Pune 76.17 - 2000

Skill Sets

Plastics materials development, processing, mold design, solidworks, catia V5, MoldFlow

Work Experience

Research Assistant
March ’08- Oct ’08
University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Coordinated with faculty and Invista Inc representatives on a research project related to PVC plasticizer evaluation.

Intern TPO Materials Research
July’ 07 – Dec' 07
Haartz Corporation, Acton, USA. Worked on a variety of areas related to TPO materials development for automotive interior trim applications

Teaching Assistant
Sept ’06- May ’07
Advanced Physical Properties lab and Plastics Process Engineering-II lab in the Plastics Engineering Department at University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Conducted the plastics identification lab for graduate students and extrusion blow molding lab for sophomores. Typical lab tasks included lecturing, demonstrations, lab supervision & grading and lab inventory management.

Technical Associate Intern
June ‘06- Sept ‘06
Bemis Associates, Shirley, USA. Work orders involved film extrusion, lamination, heat sealing, mechanical, rheological & thermal testing and spectroscopic characterization of various TPU for hot melt adhesive applications. I also successfully developed a simple yet useful plastics materials inventory system for the product development laboratory.

Teaching Assistant
Aug ‘05 – May ‘06
Organic chemistry lab, University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Work involved brief lecturing, demonstration, lab supervision, inventory management and grading for sophomore students.

Engineering Intern
June ’03- July ’03
Kalpana Glass Fibers Ltd. Pune, India. Worked on manufacturing of GFRP products based on unsaturated polyester resin such as domes, machine covers and sign boards using hand lay-up technique.

Relevant Coursework
Advanced Plastics Processing, Advanced Plastics Materials, Mechanical Behavior of Plastics, Plastics Product and Process Design, Plastics Process Control, Machine Design, Injection Molding, Statistics for Six Sigma, Polymer Structure and Property Applications, Directed Studies- Problems in Biomaterials

Future Goals

Interested in working on materials development/ application development/ design areas.