Combining advanced engineering and chemistry education [earning a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California Berkeley with a published dissertation on sustainable fluid purification and licensed as a Professional Engineer] with practical industrial hands-on business experience, he is qualified to lead groups serving current and developing new markets in a wide array of industries and operations. He has the industrial experience and engineering education to lead teams developing, selling, and servicing custom fluid/particulate processing and fluid purification technologies.
Jim understands industrial engineered systems and products, studied international marketing in an EMBA program at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, and understands key market needs, constraints, and opportunities. Specifically, as one example he is experienced with mechanical centrifugation (particularly high-speed vertical disc centrifugation) fulfilling needs in the petrochemical, chemical, ethanol/alternative fuels, food/beverage, and related/ emerging opportunities to reclaim contaminated fluids from industrial metal working, fuels refining, biofuels, and food/beverage industries and to extract valued products such as corn oil from process fluids.
As a member of senior management, he has had collaborative leadership responsibility for recruiting, training and incentivizing. Under Jim’s leadership teams have engineered and sold fluid purification processing equipment and provided shop and field services. He effectively maintains a high-quality work environment in which team members are motivated to attain their peak level of performance. He has extensive experience successfully managing employee relations, efficiently addressing disciplinary and/or performance problems. He has successfully led technical product marketing and direct sales as well as led profitable business growth [P&L responsibility].
Jim’s contributions have included:
1. designing and executing effective business strategies
2. writing proposals, position statements, outreach materials, contributions to annual plans with contingent corrective actions
3. leading competitive industry intelligence gathering and analysis, identifying industry opportunities and threats
4. tradeshows
5. leading market driven technology advancements, developments, and applications
6. marketing, sales and operations team recruiting, training, and development
7. team building communications and coordination including performance appraisals of direct reports
8. developed key strategic industry alliances and partnerships with suppliers, customers, co-product off-take partners
9. collaborated with marketing on market strategies, materials, and tools such as web, print literature, PDF technical sheets, mailers, technical documentation and presentations
10. led intellectual property invention/creation including patent claims and licensing.
Also, as a member of senior management teams he has collaborated on business objectives, corporate policies, and coordinated intra-company functions to maximize overall efficiency and profitable growth.
Jim, a licensed Professional Engineer, has U.S. patents on fluid purification/separation, polymeric flocculants, electronics, acoustics, membranes, combustion equipment and processes, chemicals (including Nano-emulsions and fuels), and catalysis. He also studied International Marketing in an Executive MBA program at the University Of Pennsylvania Wharton School Of Business.