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Expert has worked as an industrial researcher for over 30 years developing products for textiles, paper and non-wovens markets. He has worked with various types of chemistry such as wax emulsions, silicone emulsions, glyoxal resins, melamine resins, starch-based products, polyvinyl alcohol-based products. He is currently engaged in the areas of emulsion polymers, and expert witness in patent infringement and other legal cases. He has been successful in extending nonwoven latex binders with starch, showing both improved performance and lower cost.He has been involved in development of a light activated anti-microbial compound which can be co-polymerized into various polymers.

The compound acts as a catalyst for producing singlet oxygen, which kills most bacteria (including MRSA) and virus. Polymers employing this technology can make surfaces and substrates self-sanitizing upon exposure to light. He has taken products from the lab bench through the pilot plant and into full-scale production. He has a small facility with a research lab and simple pilot plant.

"Creativity" is a strong descriptor of Expert's talents. More often than not, he develops a new technology, as opposed to just a new product. He can blend several areas of chemistry, and combine them to bring out desirable traits in novel materials. He has a good grasp of structure/function relationships. For example, in studying the relationship between starch, latex binders and starch crosslinking resins in paper coatings, an unexpected turn lead to a series of patents and products based on starch graft latices containing latent crosslinking systems. These were commercialized as binders for fiberglass and polyester non-wovens.

Expert has a graduate degree in organic synthesis, and uses it as a tool to bring about desired transformations in other areas such as polymer chemistry, novel monomers, and surface active agents. He considers organic chemistry like a language, and is quite fluent in it.

He has consulted for a leading manufacturer of emulsion polymers in product development for roofing mat binders. These binders are used for polyester and glass roofing mat. He has also developed what a world-wide roofing mat supplier called, "The best non-formaldehyde binder we ever tested." He developed a latex utilizing nanotechnology that performed so well the customer filed a patent covering its use in their formulation. He has introduced "next generation" technology to the roofing binder industry incorporating renewable resources..He has developed water repellents for a small start-up company which are now sold in tank truck quantities.He has retro-engineered a formulation and matched the synthetic polymer portion so that it may be produced locally instead of imported, resulting in significant cost savings.He showed a client how to match a product which recently came off-patent. Client had been trying for a year unsuccessfully to match it. In 3 days he went from discussions to pilot plant batch which got the business for the client.He developed a successful argument in a patent litigation which invalidated an issued patent.