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Expert has spent his career commercializing silicone/silicon products and developing new processes to make them. His experience has spanned applications of silicones in the personal care, automotive, construction, food and beverage, paper, and electronics industries. Although the bulk of Expert’s career was in the area of new process development, he has also developed and commercialized silicone release coating products and worked in silicone fluids, emulsions, emulsion polymers, and antifoams manufacturing. He has commercialized conventional and very high internal phase viscosity emulsions, organofunctional siloxane polymers, silicone resins, organofunctional silanes, silane treated silica powders, silicone release coatings, airbag coatings, reinforced silicone films, and silicon powder. Along the way, Expert has utilized processing techniques as diverse as batch and continuous polymerization, mechanically induced fluidized beds, gravure and slot coating, spray drying, reactive extrusion, and coextrusion to accomplish these tasks.

Expert has studied the interaction of cured coating rheology to release characteristics. Expert developed and scaled-up novel processes to graft a curable functionality onto polyisobutylene and emuslify that polymer into an auto airbag barrier coating. He has also commercialized a glass-fabric-reinforced silicone resin film for a fire-rated glass composite. Expert has worked on teams that explored the market size for products in the areas of liquid crystal materials, targeted adsorbents, barrier coatings, water-based adhesives, and personal care product additives in developing countries. He has also worked as the sourcing and production lead on a team that generated and distributed a kit promoting silicon-containing materials to the industrial design community.