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Hal is currently Senior Officer for Knowledge and Creative Applications, Center for Innovation, Irving, Texas. He was Vice President Technology Quaker State Corporation, Irving, Texas from June 1997 through March 1999. Hal held the same position with Petrolon Technologies Division of Slick 50 Corporation, Houston, Texas from November 1993 through May 1997. During the previous 28+ years, he was a research and development scientist with Exxon Research and Engineering and with Exxon Chemical Paramins in New Jersey. He has been directly involved with the design and development of passenger car motor oils, synthetic ester jet engine lubricants and with lubricant and fuel engine treatments. He is author and co-author of several technical papers and several U.S. (30) and foreign patents, and in 1990 received the "Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award" from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey in recognition of a 1978 patent dealing with the first oil soluble fuel economy chemistry for motor oils. In 1995, he received the ASTM Award of Merit for his contributions to Standards Development in the area of low temperature oil flow in engines. He has served as Chairman of ASTM D-2 Section 7C on low temperature oil flow since the early 1980s and is currently Vice Chairman of Subcommittee 7 on Rheology in ASTM Committee D2 and is a member of the Passenger Car Engine Oil Classification Panel and the ASTM D-02 executive subcommittee. He is also an active member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, serving on the Engine Oil Viscosity Classification Task Force and is a member of STLE and the American Chemical Society.
Hal holds a B.S. degree from the University of Rochester and M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, all in the field of chemistry. | 