• Gender: Female
• Age: 48
• Designation: Manager
• Highest Education Level: Doctrate
• Preferred Country: India
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 23.1 Year(s)

Education

Ph.D. (Polymer Chemistry) From National Chemical Laboratory, Pune in 2009

M.Sc. (Polymer Chemistry) From Pune University in 1999

Skill Sets

Extensive experience in IP driven R&D and in design and synthesis of functional polymers, smart hydrogels/nanogels for controlled drug delivery and structure-property relationship of polysaccharides for oil exploration
Skilled in project management to achieve specified target through resource and time management.
Well versed with patent search, drafting & identifying gaps in existing patents
Good reporting skills (presentation and documentation) for collaborative work with company’s global network
Good practice of working within multidisciplinary groups from different geographies
Well acquainted with R&D and Analytical lab set up
Hands on experience in Handling Instruments such as FTIR, UV–Visible spectrophotometer, DSC, TGA, GPC, AAS
and Light Scattering
Compilation and extraction of data using database such as Scifinder, Delphion, Scopus, CA on CD and internet

Work Experience

Lab Manager (R&D)
Since Feb 2014
Company Profile: Manufacturer of textile chemicals, textile dyes, leather dyes, optical brighteners, chemicals.
Job Profile:
Polymer lab set up with synthesis & instrumentation facility.
Develop innovative solutions to address local market needs and explore opportunities to create intellectual property for company.
Design & execute R&D project as per PPM tool
Execute R&D project with creativity and in discussion with business units to meet milestone and objectives.
Search for new project opportunities and propose new concepts.
Identify talent and support required for project workTrain & develop coworkers and ensure good laboratory practices.
Monitor documentation as per the guidelines for global audit.

Scientist-Chemist: Aug 2010 to Oct 2012
Sr.Scientist-Chemist: Nov 2012 to Jan 2014
Company Profile : Leading Service Provider of Research & development for oil industries.
Job Profile : 
Primary responsibility of providing technical solutions for enhancing oil/gas production which involved.
Developing chemical formulations based on polysaccharides like Xanthan gum, Diutan, Guar, Cellulose and its derivatives for gravel packing and fracturing fluids.
Formulation development for carbonate acidizing, sandstone acidizing, paraffin and asphaltene dissolution and inhibition, scale removal and prevention
Identifying pitfalls and developing IP driven solution and thereby supporting business development and growth.
Design, execution, evaluation and reporting of experimental results to meet business needs.
To interact and co-ordinate with global team including scientists/engineers from different geographies.
Managing, monitoring and coordinating project activities as per ISO and Halliburton’s safety standards.
Team alignment to meet project requirements and deadlines.
Writing technical reports, SOPs, risk assessments

Accomplishments.
2 granted US patent, 4 filed US patent, 2 MVP (Maximizing Value Performance) Awards and 2 Service quality Applause
Visited British Petroleum, UK, as a gravel pack fluid expert

Senior Research Fellow
2003 to 2009
Company Name : CSIR
Job Profile : 
Thesis Advisor : Dr. Mohan Kulkarni, Former Head, Polymer Science & Engineering Division at National Chemical
Laboratory, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary of Ph.D. Thesis
Developed and standardized
A method for the synthesis of stoichiometric inclusion complex of degradable and nondegradable crosslinkers and AFCT agent
A polymerization technique to obtain soluble polymers containing pendant unsaturation from crosslinkers and their crosslinking to obtain varying degrees of crosslinking.
A process for the synthesis of drug loaded degradable nanogels having size < 60 nm from soluble polymers containing pendant unsaturation
A process for the immobilization of enzymes by entrapment method.
A method to control the reactivity of the AFCT agent and functionality of the macromer by supramolecular chemistry.
A polymerization technique to yield terminally unsaturated water soluble macromers from the hydrophobic. 
A FCT agent by inclusion complex approach
Water soluble or swellable graft copolymers by AFCT technique or through inclusion complexes of crosslinkers 

Accomplishments
2 granted US patents and 1 published US patent application
Based on these patents, NCL received three projects from private companies to synthesize polymers

Project Assistant – II
March 2001 to October 2002
Company Name : National Chemical Laboratory
Job Profile : 
Synthesis of high molecular weight Acrylamide/AMPS/NVP based water–soluble polymers by solution, emulsion and
suspension polymerization
Synthesis of hydrophobically modified water–soluble polymers
Structural elucidation of the polymers by Viscometry, TGA and GPC
Accomplishment
The product was accepted by ONGC, India, for pilot scale manufacturing

Project Assistant
March 2000 to March 2001
Company Name : MIT College of Engineering
Job Profile : 
Synthesis and polymerization of N–vinyl Imides of Dibasic Acids
Blending of Poly (N–vinyl imides) with PVC and its thermal stability by TGA

Presentations
Copolymerization of macromonomers for novel graft copolymers : Presented poster at MACRO 2006, the
international conference on polymers for advanced technologies held at NCL, Pune in December 2006.
Novel crosslinked polymers : Reactivity and structure : Presented poster at MACRO 2004, the international
conference on polymers for advanced technologies held at Thiruvananthapuram in December, 2004.
Synthesis of block & graft copolymers as pH sensitive hydrogel : Presented poster at SPS, Pune in June, 2003.
Synthesis and characterization of water soluble graft copolymers : Presented poster at SPS, Pune in June, 2001.
Delivered a lecture on “Gravel packing fluid” and “Environmental Regulations” in Sand Control workshop held at HTIPL, Pune, India in Mar. 2012 and Oct. 2013 in which participants from different countries were involved.

Trainings Attended
Technology Entrepreneurship conducted by Human Resource Development Group CSIR, India, and (IIM) Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (2004) at NCL, Pune, India.

‘Geology for Non-geologists’ conducted by PIECE (Petroleum Institute for Continuing Education) held at Houston, Texas, US (Oct. 2012).

'Project management’ held at HTIPL, Pune (Dec. 2012)

'Talent Selection’ held at HTIPL, Pune (Sept. 2013)

'Risks in project management’ held at HTIPL, Pune (Oct. 2013)

Induction training’ held at Frankfurt, Germany (June 2014 – Aug. 2014)

‘Innovation green belt training’ held at Kwalalumpur, Malaysia (Oct. 2014 to Dec. 2014)

Awards Received
MVP (Maximizing Value Performance) award from customer company, Exxon Mobil, for the optimization of gravel pack carrier fluid for NAFPac job, which was performed first time in Asia Pacific in Malaysia in 2011
MVP (Maximizing Value Performance) award for the active participation in Sand Control Workshop which was held for the first time in Halliburton, Pune Technology Centre in 2011
Service Quality Applause for aiming excellence and hitting the target in providing services to customer company
‘British Petroleum’ in Feb. 2013
Service Quality Applause for providing value driven results to customer company ‘GSPC’ in Nov. 2013
Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India) to pursue Ph.D. in 2002

Patents
Grant Patents
US 7,560,522 “Inclusion complexes of unsaturated monomers their polymers and process for preparation
thereof”.

US 7,875,659 “Water soluble macromonomers having terminal unsaturation and the process for preparation thereof”.

US 8,978,761 “Hydrated sheet silicate minerals for reducing permeability in a well”.
US 9,016,375 “Breaking Diutan with Oxalic acid at 1800F to 2200F”.`

Filed Patent Applications
US 13/748,266 “Treatment fluids comprising stabilized hetero polysaccharides and related methods”.

US 13/869,207 “High pressure, high temperature gravel pack carrier fluids with extended dynamic stability for alternate flow path”.

Visited as a subject expert to British Petroleum, UK (Halliburton’s customer) for the demonstration of
gravel pack carrier fluid, for which this patent application was filed.

US 13/893,218 “A method of treating a high temperature well with a fluid containing a viscosifier and a stabilizer package”.

PCT/US14/4197 “Low density oil external emulsion with gelled internal phase as a gravel packing carrying fluid”

Performance oriented Ph.D. in Polymer chemistry with extensive experience in polymer synthesis, method
development and in data analysis to organize projects and find creative solutions to scientific problems through collaborative research. Familiar with smart drug delivery, oilfield and coating applications

Future Goals

Growth