Robert Packer
Product Director at TA Instruments
Delaware, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Packer is a product director with 11 years of experience leading instrumentation and materials characterization businesses, currently overseeing thermal, microcalorimetry and thermal property products at TA Instruments. He previously grew PerkinElmer’s molecular spectroscopy and thermal analysis portfolio into a $200M business with over 25% growth in 2021, combining strategic M&A, targeted regional tactics, and disciplined portfolio lifecycle management. Trained as a materials scientist (PhD, Imperial College London) and grounded in chemistry, he blends deep technical expertise with commercial acumen—launching award-winning products like DairyGuard and driving analytics and cloud-enabled solutions. Known for automating workflows (per his GitHub motto) and translating complex instrument requirements into market-winning products, he excels at turning R&D into profitable, application-focused offerings.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Professional Diploma in Markerting Marketing, Professional Diploma in Markerting Marketing at Oxford College of MarketingPhD Materials Science, PhD Materials Science at Imperial College LondonMChem Chemistry, MChem Chemistry at University of Kent
English
Github Skills (20)
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machine-learning7
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othello6
django-framework4
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
2jour/Othello
Feb 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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scratchfoundation/scratch-flash
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Open source version of the Scratch 2.0 project editor. This is the basis for the online and offline versions of Scratch found on the website.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 branch, 230 comments in 11 months
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