About Myself

Daniel Eustace is leading a Chemistry graduate school course on Professional Development as an adjunct in the Chemistry Department at the University of Connecticut.

http://www.clas.uconn.edu/news/news_2008_03_17.htm

This follows a 33 year industrial career as physical chemist in regulatory compliance, manufacturing, R&D, and technical management. He has enjoyed a wide-ranging career, most recently serving as an Environmental Affairs, Health and Safety Manager at the New Bedford (MA) Multi-Media Manufacturing Site of MCT, LLC, formerly Polaroid Corporation. He was involved in day-to-day and project activities including:

fuming sulfuric acid spill clean-up and restoration,

mercury spill clean-up,

industrial hygiene,

air emissions operating permit,

regulatory record keeping and compliance,

process safety management and

electrical safety programs.

He has held several successful staff, technical project and chemical leadership roles in the Film Manufacturing Site at Polaroid. Trained as a Six Sigma Black Belt and Black Belt Master, he was involved in a cross functional team that used six sigma to develop, test, and implement rapid, accurate, reproducible, nondestructive at line assays of production fluids using near infrared spectroscopy. This process has been in place for nine years and is an integral component of light sensitive film manufacturing.

Dan was involved in deploying several statistical tools in film manufacturing to improve the speed and accuracy of diagnosing problems in film manufacturing. As reproducibility manager, he deployed cusum plotting and was involved in finding root causes of coating defects (caused by bubbles), streaks (caused by phase separation inside the applicator) and product quality process shifts.

He was project leader designing, debugging and bringing on-line a new light sensitive silver halide production line for high speed film.

Before joining Polaroid, Dan had an applied research scientist career in the Advanced Energy Systems Laboratory at Exxon Research and Engineering Company (NJ) involved in developing practical, complex fluid (mud) tools for oilfield problems, polycrystalline silicon solar cells and rechargeable aqueous bromine and lithium titanium disulfide batteries.

One activity that Dan has had and continues to have an active interest in primary grade science education.

Dan is deeply committed to enhancing career management and development for chemists. Since 1999, he has volunteered as an active career consultant and workshop presenter at universities and regional and national meetings of the American Chemical Society.

Dan's LinkedIn.com profile is http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?goback=%2Emid_553197547