Joseph Hannah

• Managing existing client accounts in the EU for their product lines: Specialty Chemicals, Catalysts, Rubber special additives to increase sales profit by 20%. • Frequent face to face meetings with the customer’s sales, R&D, procurement, quality Teams in order to introduce the products technically and explain their performance in the application and price. • Business trips to customers, sales partners, trade fairs and conferences to expand network. • Preparation of quotations incl. follow-up until contract conclusion and handover to supply chain management and update product prices by using SAP. • Coordination with colleagues at a global level for delivery times and technical support/applications.

• Lead new products development such as skincare and surface disinfectants from concept to commercialization. • Writing and updating all MSDS, QC tests for all products. • Responsible for registration implementation of products with REACH and BPR. • Assist current and future customers with any technical quires regarding all chemical products.

•Provide technical expertise, problem-solving skills to sales teams on various cementing additives (dispersant, retarders, anti-foams) performance use as raw material in Well formation for Oil and gas drilling. •Write technical brochures, and proposals of different cementing additives (retarders, fluid loss, dispersants) to present them to customers. •Support the implementation, accreditation of ISO9001:2015 standard on chemical testing and manufacturing.

• Designed and formulated novel food packaging film derived from chitin biopolymer starting of concept phase to prototype stages of development. • Liaised with multi-functional team (external collaborators, junior staff and senior management) to keep abreast on project results and status.

This role included the following duties • Collaborated with field operations worldwide (multi-disciplinary teams) to resolve performance problems of cement jobs, implemented solutions and saved 5-20% of company’s expenditure. • Evaluated lower cost chemical additives (fluid loss, retarders, dispersants, rubber) sourced from different suppliers and reduced company’s expenditure by 5-20%. • Supervised and organized the work schedules of technicians to execute laboratory experiments and generate time-critical data. • Planned and prioritized laboratory tests and reviewed results with technicians and management for 31 projects to deliver data within deadlines. • Reviewed technical proposals for new product development within the cement department. • Examined quality control (QC) test methods of various chemical products and corresponding raw materials to enhance accuracy, scope, and shorten assay time. • Document and present data on quarterly basis to stakeholders in technical reports.

2 years experience with Material Science Projects from Field operation • Surveyed epoxy resin, polyurethanes formulations utilized to seal electric assembly of seismic streamers. • Assessed anti-fouling silicon polymer as a coating material for seismic streamers. • Formulated and developed polystyrene polymer to use as a filler material in seismic streamers.

Argenta Ltd. Harlow, Essex Synthesized and purified different heterocyclic compounds with medicinal application.

Prepared phospholipids using solid phase synthesis.

Developed light-fluorous safety-catch arylgermanes - exceptionally robust, photochemically activated precursors for biaryl synthesis by Pd(0) catalysed cross-coupling.

Developed cis and trans amino alcohols from epoxide ring opening.