Pankaj Gupta

1 River Court Apt 702, Phone: 5852987990

Jersey City, NJ 07310 Email:pankaj.vnit02@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE Seeking a position in which I can utilize my Engineering knowledge, Business skills as well as three years
of Process Development experience in best interests of organization.

EDUCATION University of Rochester, Rochester, NY May 2010

Master of Science in Materials Science (Specialization: Electro-Optics) GPA - 3.7/4.0
NIT Nagpur, India April 2006
Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science
88th of 1000 in All India Ranking with 90.25 Percentile in Graduate Aptitude Test of Engineering

SKILLS Business: Business Case Creation, CRM, Cash Flow, ROI, SEO, Market Analysis, Growth
Projection, Industry Trend, Customer Identification, and Competitive Advantage
Soft: Matlab, MS Office, Optilayer, JMP, SQL, C, Labview, Data Acquisition
Organizational: Manufacturing Research to enhance efficiency, quality assurance and
profitability and Team management, demonstrated through employment
achievements, SPC, DOE.
Technical: Semiconductor Physics, Renewable Energy, LED, Deposition Techniques (CVD,
MBE, ALD etc.), Thin Film Technology, Characterization Techniques (SEM, TEM,
XRD, AFM), Heat Transfer, Optoelectronics, Mechanical Processing of Materials,
Advanced Materials and Chemistry, Optical Coating, Etching

PROJECTS University of Rochester, NY Sept, 08-May, 10

• Business Plan for Li-ion Battery: For Technical Entrepreneurship course created business
plan for a start-up company that supplies battery manufacturers a patent-protected anode
material designed to enhance Li-Ion battery performance. Plan won prize in Mark Ain
business competition and is now being used to seek funding and be transformed from
proposal into actual venture.
• Enhanced Efficiency of Si-Quantum Dot Solar cell by Multiple Exciton Generation
• Novel applications of SixGe1-x
• Carbon Nanotube Fabrication & Applications

NIT Nagpur, India Aug, 05-April, 06

• Impact Damage Assessment of Composite Laminates: Manufactured composite laminates
and observed their mechanical behavior with different impacts and fatigue.

IIT Roorkee, India Nov, 05-Dec, 05

• High Temperature Corrosion of Titanium Alloys: Calculated corrosive behavior of Titanium
alloys in different media and at varying temperatures.

EXPERIENCE Founder, NY Association of Green Professionals (NYAGP), NY Present

• Organizing technological and entrepreneurial conferences on Green market.
• Providing a networking platform to start-ups to help them find their prospects.

Business Development Manager at LED Waves, NY Present

• Performing Customer identification, Increase in Brand awareness, Grant writing etc.

Research Assistant at Laboratory for Laser Energetic, Rochester, NY Jan, 09 –July, 10

• Through research entitled Single Photon through Optical Replicator, investigated behavior of
Single photons generated from attenuated laser beam and passed through Optical
Replicator
• Had experience with numerous electro-optical devices, tools and data acquisition
• Potential applications include quantum cryptography and quantum computing.
 Pankaj Gupta
1 River Court Apt 702, Phone: 5852987990
Jersey City, NJ 07310 Email:pankaj.vnit02@gmail.com

Research and Development Manager at Supergems Jewelry Mfg Pvt. Ltd, India July, 06-July, 08
• Performed Product and Process Development as well as managed manufacturing team of
200 skilled operators.
• Reduced many recurring quality issues (from 40% to 7%) by regular experiments, analysis of
results and standardization of the process parameters.
• Experimented and standardized direct stone-placed casting for fast manufacturing and OTEC
for mass polishing.

**References are available upon request