Keith T. O'Brien B.Sc.(Eng.) (Hons.), M.Sc., Ph.D., M.B.A., M.B.M., M.B.E., D.D.
 
 
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2003 - present

President, I.M. Gurus, Inc.

Intellectual property management from invention through patent prosecution to licensing and sale.

2001-2003

Vice President of Engineering, Sea Coast Diversities, Inc.

Design of plastic parts, injection molds, extrusion dies and extruder screws, using proprietary CAD software.
Six Sigma manufacturing, integrated system design and control. AutoCAD, Pro-E and SolidWorks. C++, Java, Javascript, HTML, ColdFusion.

1992-2002

Manager, Johnson & Johnson

Precision injection molding, plastics formulation, injection mold design, tooling development, ceramic coatings, reaction injection molding, laser machining, coating plastics, precision optoelectrical and optomechanical instrumentation, on-line quality control systems, and intellectual property management. Disposable contact lens design and fabrication.

1988-1992

Director of Manufacturing and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Developed B.S. and M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering programs. Developed constituent courses and laboratories.
Manufacturing systems, manufacturing systems integration, design for manufacturability.

1981-1988

Senior, Staff Engineer, Celanese Corporation.

Design of injection molds, extrusion dies and extruder screws. Process development using twin screw extruders, kneaders, laser machining, continuous glass fibers, and comminution. Hard facings and ceramic coatings.
Process design and control for reactors, devolatilizers, extruders and pelletizers.

1978-1981

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology.
Injection molding, hard facings and ceramic coatings, recycling, and hyperthermic cancer treatment.

1976-1979

Professeur de Genie Polymeres et Sciences, Institut Algerienne du Petrole.
Injection molding, extrusion.

1974-1976

Research Fellow, University of Bradford.
Injection molding, extrusion, rheology and thermal property measurement.