Robert Durante

Background

About Robert Durante

CAREER OBJECTIVE: Uphold my commitment to core values. Build on my leadership, problem solving, instructional, and chemistry skills as a knowledge worker that creates revenue and technology value that is useful to my business. Provide accurate, clear and simplified communications between coworkers through verbal, email and cloud based collaboration. Utilize my existing skills as a scientist and project leader to support internal and external stakeholders through high quality interaction and collaboration. Contribute to business growth through my skills and experience. Be accountable and a contributing member of a high quality team. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: • Performed research & development, and field development; invented products and formulations that have been used in the manufacturing of, printed circuit boards, semi-conductors, and flat panel displays. Developed many cleaners and metal finishing formulations. • Contributed to task teams to develop business goals and management processes. • Served as Global Product Stewardship leader for two product lines with over $75 MM in sales. • Technical Service with some of the largest electronics manufactures in the world to generate sales, solve process problems, and defend our process chemistry products. • Increased sales in my territory by 95% in one year. Closed sales, landing the 3rd largest customer in the Division. • Traveled both internationally and domestically to give seminars and training to existing and potential customers. Trained production engineers in Asia to establish an off-shore blending operation. • Patented inventions in North America, Asia, and Europe. • Played an integral part in the acquisition of Chemitron, Inc. to McGean-Rohco, Inc. Negotiated and implemented the technical aspects of the acquisition.