• Gender: Female
• Age: 59
• Designation: General Manager
• Highest Education Level: Doctrate
• Notice Period: 20  Days
• Work Experience: 31 Year(s)

Education

Ph.D. (Solid State/Materials Chemistry) From NCL, Pune, in 1997

M.S. (Physical Chemistry) From Pune Univ, Pune in 1989

B.S. (Chemistry) From Pune Univ, Pune in 1987

Skill Sets

Experience as R&D Scientist/ Business development in Material Science areas: Accomplishments in Advanced materials, flexible packaging,  plastics,polymer composites, additives & processing, nanomaterials, organic-inorganic hybrids, ceramics, membranes; synthesis & analytical skills for cutting edge technologies for industrial applications. 

Technology leadership, New Product Research & Development Innovation & Portfolio Management, Product commercialization Business Development
Stage-Gate Process, Green Belt 6s certified

Work Experience

DGM, Head, Product Development & R&D
Since Oct 2014
Company Profile: Manufacturer of Packaging Films, Label Films & Graphic Lamination Films. 
Job Profile:
Innovation- New Product Research & Development- Stage-Gate Processes-
Company's product & applications developments are for BOPP speciality, thermal speciality and coating speciality films. Work on BOPP packaging film innovations that would enable the business to take a quantum leap through speciality, patented products and processes, and develop a portfolio of new investment opportunities for the business.
New product development objectives along with Product strengthening, Benchmarking, competitive analysis & Continual Improvements of products.
Managing interdepartmental interactions across multiple verticals functions strong partnering with BD, Sales, Marketing,production & QA and ensuring product deliveries.
Developed state of the art R&D centre(DSIR recognition) with analytical infrastructure, capabilities, played a key role in talent acquisition
Leading the team of 10 people in R&D & responsible for complete product development cycle
Market fit technology & Project plan, Evaluate Technical Commercial needs, Technical scoping, planning, guiding, execution & scale up activities of R&D projects, Validate Product, Analyze product failures & Supervise feasibility studies, troubleshoot scale-up trials, Product compliances.
Commercialized 10 BOPP film products: Anti-Skid films, high barrier films,Direct embossable metalized BOPP film, Transparent, Cold Seal Release application, wrap-around labels for low density, functional coatings & label films, coated thermal supersilk BOPP, Special Thermal film for both side lamination application

Current projects : BOPP & coated, thermal speciality the products development include Innovation in BOPE, craze resistant, enhanced seal & barrier performance metallized film, high seal strength, breathable, high surface energy films, tear & puncture resistant films; Under coated, label films SAL, PSL, wrap around label, Acrylic coated films; soft touch, digital, thermal lamination films.
Continuous Improvement Projects &Cost reduction initiatives in R&Dcontingency plan, Interaction with Raw Material Supplier
Patents filing, analysis & infringement, documentations, 3 provisional patents filed.
Recipient of Indiastar 2015 Award from IIP, Mumbai under Innovation category.

Business Dept Leader 
Mar 2014 to Oct 2014 
Job Profile : Lading manufacturer of Organic, Inorganic and Fine Chemicals.

Business Dept & Technology Leader 
Jun 2012 to Nov 2013 
Company Name : Battelle Science & Tech India 
Job Profile : 
Identified business opportunities -established new client relationships & leads for contract R&D. Developed innovative solutions in response to customer requirements. 
Achieved industrial projects of $100K funding in polymer membrane formulations –lab scale technology to commercialization. 
Managed industrial projects for waste water treatment technology. 
Lead/manage small natural work projects team in the area of polymeric membranes, encapsulation, biodegradable polymers, functional coatings formulations, specialty polymers, functional fillers & industrial effluent treatment. 
Accountable for the development of business cases & market opportunity proposals to anticipate industrial technology needs. 
Played a key role in developing the analytical science lab facility, defining resources & talent acquisition. 
Subject matter expert in the areas of Polymer blends, hybrid composites, Nanocomposites, surface functionalization and analytical characterization

Lead Scientist 
Feb 2008 to Apr 2012 
Company Name : Dow Chemical Int. Pvt. Ltd.
Job Profile : 
Conceptualized and developed innovative antimicrobial technology for driving new program through Stage-gate process to commercialization. Work involved incorporating anti-microbial additives for controlled release in food packaging, coating & Engg. Plastics using nanocomposite fillers. Impact: $ MM 100 opportunity for Dow Packaging business with gross margin exceeding 35%. 
Developed next generation high performance hybrid PU elastomer formulations & adhesives. Helped & mentored juniors to improve impact resistance and elasticity. Simultaneous improvements in modulus, strength, elongation-to-break of these polyurethanes were achieved by addition of certain fillers including glass fibres, nanosilica, nanoclays or carbon nanotubes. Product differentiation and increased value creation by $500MM opportunity for Dow. Conceptualized non-isocyanate PU systems. 
Evolved global strategy for this platform project for Dow Polyurethanes. $47MM) - Achieved successful synthesis, mechanical property & performance test of solid polyester & non-PU foam by multiple tech for rigid spray foam application. Mentored junior scientists for further development in project. 
New product development for different business unit plastics & composites, formulations (encapsulation of fragrances, enzymes & Biocides, PU Elastomers, coatings, construction chemicals) to ideate new technology growth platforms. 
Shaped advanced FR (fire resistant) PU products (foam & coating) based on nanoparticles; Included blends with inorganic-organic fillers (nanoparticles, nanoclays), for various functions, phase morphology, stabilization, improved mechanical and FR performance. Some solutions involved surface modification and encapsulation while others focused on bulk properties. 
Identified regional emerging market trends/ opportunities and worked with business development to draft a white paper to develop business plans for the geography. 
Strategized across different Dow businesses in areas of plastics, composites, PUD coatings, water purification, food packaging etc. based on applications developed in the lab. Mentored postdoc fellow for a key project in food packaging which emphasized to enhance barrier properties necessary for longer shelf life. 
Played key role in developing the material science lab facility with and creating world class infra-structure, capabilities & talent acquisition. 
1 patent under external examination, 7 Internal Invention concept disclosures being filed, 7 New business valued proposals developed across various platforms, 17 Internal Reports, 5 external presentations. 

Visiting Scholar 
Oct 2006 to Nov 2007
Company Name : Maryland state Univ, Towson MD,US
Job Profile : 
Developed materials science understanding for photo conducting properties of electronically active perovskite oxide materials BiCaMnO3. The work involved preparaion of thin films of these oxides using pulsed laser ablation technique.

Chemical consultant 
Jan 2006 to July 2006 
Company Name : Solaroad tech Inc

Visiting Scientist 
Feb 2005 to Dec 2006 
Company Name : Johns Hopkins Univ, Material Sci.& Engg.
Job Profile : 
Responsible for developing bulk & nanoporous thin film materials; fabrication of 3D ordered porous structure of Au, Ag, Cu thin films/nano wires for sensor application. Gained experience in electrochemical, sputtering and evaporator techniques. Knowledge of fabrication of; wafer and its handling; magnetic nanowires and its functionalization.
Gained experience in fabrication of transparent, thin films ¯oporous ordered replicas of oxide semiconductors (TiO2,ZnO) on conducting substrates for application in ¬Dye sensitized solar cells.

Adjunct faculty
May 2002 to Dec 2003
Company Name : Towson, Univ, MD, US
Job Profile : 
Responsible for teaching undergraduate classes and laboratory courses in Physics &Chemistry dept.

Research Fellow
Mar 2000 to Jan 2001
Company Name : DFRL, Royal Instt.
Job Profile : 
Research projects:  Synthesis, Structural, electromagnetic and Giant magneto resistance (GMR)properties on layered complex oxides, R-P manganates. Synthesis, Structural, electromagnetic  property layered LnCa2Mn2O7 (Ln =Rare earth metals) & low dimensional vanadates.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Feb 1998 to May 1999 
Company Name : RWTH-Aachen Univ.
Job Profile : 
Research project: Synthesis and reactivity of S4N4, sulfur nitride, air sensitive compounds

Research Associate
June 1996 to Jan 1998 
Company Name : catalysis Division
Job Profile : 
Research Project: Synthesis, physico-chemical properties and oxidative catalytic reactions of new Layered Double Hydroxides (hydrotalcites),LDHs; Mg6Al2-xMx(OH)16(CO3).3H2O, synthetic clays)

Graduate-CSIR Senior Research Fellow, 
Jan 1992 to June 1996   
Company Name : Materials Chemistry Division,
Job Profile : 
PhD research project: (a) To investigate structural, optical, electromagnetical and catalytic properties of layered perovskites mixed metal Oxides &oxycarbonates.Gained experience in various solid state tech;  Extensive experience in wet chemistry/solid state synthesis, magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity,(superconductivity measurements), ESR, XRD, AAS, FTIR, UV-Vis,ICP, microscopy. 
Dissertation: Structure-property correlations in layered perovskites and related oxides; importance of atomic sizes.

CSIR Senior Research Fellow
Aug 1989 to Dec 1991 
Company Name : PhysChem. Division  
Job Profile : 
Research project: (a) To work on environmentally important water evaporation control project. (b)Investigate and evaluate thermodynamical properties of organic compounds.

Awards
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Award, Delhi, INDIA
Research Associate award
1996-2000

Senior Research Fellowship
1992-1995

Facilitator for global Innovation collaborative efforts (Dow Chemicals)
2011

Invited Seminars:
For schungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Germany
2006
Towson University, Physics Dept.  MD, US
2007

Future Goals

Growth