Keynote Speakers
Lorelle Pender, Keynote Speaker
June 4, 10:00 AM-11:00 AM
Lockheed Martin Associate Fellow
Manufacturing Engineer Senior Staff
At Lockheed Martin Space, Lorelle is the technical lead for coatings and surface finishing operations at the Coatings Development Lab of the Lockheed Martin Space campus at Waterton Canyon. She resolves surface treatment issues and drives continuous improvements for multiple Space programs. Her chemical engineering expertise is leveraged in the operation, maintenance and improvement of the chemical processing facilities across Lockheed Martin’s portfolio of manufacturing sites. She is passionate about sustainable coating practices that meet Space mission requirements.
Prior to this role, Lorelle worked at GE Water for 7+ years. Most recently as the Manufacturing Engineering Manager with overall site responsibilities for Preventative Maintenance Programs, Facilities, P&E Capital budgets, Automation, and Projects. Prior to GE Water, she was an Advanced Product Developer for 3M Company, after starting her career as a Process Design Engineer for a clean energy start-up company. She holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Jack McCaskie, Blum Speaker
June 4, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
Surface Science Consultants LLC
Owner
Dr. John (Jack) McCaskie is a New Jersey native and current resident. In 1965, Jack was awarded an NSF Traineeship for graduate studies at UCLA, mentored by Professor Saul Winstein. His Ph.D. thesis “ The Reactions of Palladium Acetate with Olefins” was approved by Dr. Richard J. Heck ( 2010 Nobelist) among others. As an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Syracuse University in 1970 he studied “Reaction Mechanisms of Small ring sulfur organometallic compounds” and published with Professor Donald Dittmer.
In 1972 he began his industrial R&D management career at LeaRonal Inc. in surface chemistry including electrochemical and electrolytic metal deposition processes for the electronics and automotive industries. He was involved in the development of a palladium alloy coating for electronic component surfaces to replace higher priced gold processes. Later, as R&D Director and VP in companies owned by Elf Aquitaine (ElfAtochem, Atotech, Atofina), he managed increasingly larger teams and more complex systems and processes, including systems which replaced hexavalent chromium for preparing plastic surfaces to receive adherent metal coatings. He was also involved in processes to decompose PFAS in wastewater from process streams used in electrodeposition systems. He lived in Berlin Germany for 4 years where he was VP of global R&D for General Metal Finishing Business for Atotech. He was R&D director for Metal and Aviation, Fluorochemicals and Hydrogen Peroxide at Atochem in Pennsylvania and global R&D manager for GMF at Shipley-Ronal -Rohm&Haas in New York.
Since 2009, as owner of Surface Science Consultants LLC he has served clients such as, Rheem Corp. , and provided expertise in patent litigation cases.
He is author or co-author of 24 US and foreign patents and 65 publications and presentations in the field.
Sean Wise, Plenary Speaker
June 5, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Repliform Inc.
President
Sean Wise received a Ph. D. in organic chemistry from the University of California, Irvine. After graduation he served 4 years in U.S. Army working for the Ballistics Research Lab at APG, MD. The early 1990’s was the dawn of “Rapid Prototyping” (now known as 3D printing or Additive Manufacturing) and Sean saw its as a solution for electoforming mandrels and developed a method to produce two-sided 3D printed matched plate patterns that could be used to electroform nickel & copper shells for low volume injection mold tooling.
In 2000, RePliForm was founded and a customer asked him to apply his experience with electroforming on 3D resin prints to see if a thin metal coating adhered to printed parts could be used to improve their engineering performance and durability. Early testing showed up to 20-fold increases in photopolymer part life with just a 50 micron Cu+Ni coating. Through collaboration with customers, material suppliers and printer manufacturers, methods were developed to estimate the properties of electroplated AM parts using the Rule of Mixtures from the composites world and applied to thermoset and thermoplastic materials made via photopolymer, sintering, filament and other printing methods.
Since RePliForm specializes in plating on AM parts, it has developed a broad understanding of the idiosyncrasies of the printing methods, the materials used in each system and developed methods to adapt them for use in electroplating complex geometries that have functional engineering uses.