PhD in Organic Chemistry, Michigan State University, 1971
BA in Chemistry, Olivet College, 1966

2004 - present		Consultant		SpecialChem/Omnexus
2006		President and CEO		Airless Container Corp LLC
2005 - present		President		Plastic Failure Lab
2002 - present		President		Priddy & Associates LLC
1999 - 2001		Senior Failure Scientist for Dow Plastics		The Dow Chemical Company
1994 - 1999		Lead Scientist in charge of Dow Plastics Polymer Additives Group		The Dow Chemical Company
Consultant for many Fortune 500 companies including Dow Chemical, SE Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, and Milliken Chemical

• Adjunct Professor at Michigan Technological University, 1989 - present
• Adjunct Professor at Central Michigan University, 1988 - present

• Nominated (Cambridge) for "International Scientist of Year Award for 2005"
• Awarded "Lifetime Achievement Award" by Dow Plastics - 2001
• Awarded "Fellow" National American Chemical Society (ACS) PMSE - 2001
• Received "Salutes to Excellence" award by American Chemical Society - 2001
• Invited Keynote speaker for ACS "Chemistry in Industry Conference" - Sept 2004
• Outstanding Achievement in the Chemical Sciences Award by ACS - 1995
• Industrial liaison to the POLY Division of the ACS - 1997 - 2001

• 60+ Issued United States Patents
• 100+ Publications including 5 encyclopedia articles and 8 book chapters
• Author/Editor of book Modern Styrenic Polymers Wiley 2003
• Author of several encyclopedia articles on Plastics and Plastic Analysis