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Experience

Anil has 20 years of OEM experience in product development within the automotive and oil & gas industries. He has become an authority in developing solutions for a wide range of challenges, including seals & structures, friction & wear, and electrical applications, all centered around the use of polymeric materials.

Since then, he has transitioned to the commercial space where he leverages his expertise in helping other companies qualify their polymeric products. Anil’s professional focus lies in partnering with forward-thinking companies across the industrial, commercial, and transportation sectors. 

His work primarily revolves around connecting with executive leaders in engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain, individuals who wield the power to make decisions that enhance our lives through the application of polymeric solutions. Anil is currently located at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø's Houston-Cypress lab.

Career highlights

• Application development for thermoplastic compounds focusing on the customer’s business challenge across multiple industries
• Influenced seal design as elastomer SME for equipment used in subsea drill through equipment such as blow out preventer (BOP)
• Played a key role on a multidisciplinary team of engineers focused on variable cost productivity (VCP) to improve profitability
• Materials engineering product line support for surface, offshore, and subsea drilling, and production equipment.
• High voltage material, for automotive EV connector; requiring HVHC, high CTI, high flow, low interaction in orange
• Developed a new design to value materials solution for fracking applications with the highest reliability
• WBSR PR2 fatigue life for elastomer seal per API 16A
• Conducted M&A due diligence, a manufacturer of unbonded flexible pipe per API 15S, leading to the acquisition and creation of a new division called “Onshore Composite Pipe”
• Elastomer life modelling in H2S with compressive stress relaxation
• API 6A fixture testing for elastomer qualification
• Solution based polymer nanofiller-composites synthesis

Specializations

• Oil and gas testing
• Materials testing
• Polymer testing
• Chemical, mechanical, and thermal properties of polymers
• Polymer applications in the energy industry
• Polymer applications in automotive fluid handling
• Polymer applications in automotive EV electrical connectors
• Film permeation testing of gases 

Professional qualifications

• Expert
• M.S. & B.S. in Chemical Engineering

Affiliations / Memberships / Working groups

• Expert
• Energy Polymer Group Board Member
• Served on various ISO, API, and ASTM committees and technical working groups seeking to develop or modernize materials related test methods and standards in the energy industry

Sector expertise

• Industrial
• Energy
• Transportation
• Consumer products

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