Summary
Tom Mulholland is a PhD-trained plastics and mechanical engineer with 12 years of experience advancing additive manufacturing, extrusion, and injection molding for high-performance materials and semiconductor fabs. He has led multidisciplinary R&D programs and managed teams to qualify aerospace-grade filaments, implement lab-to-production controls, and deliver a $1.1M DoD project that produced over 1,200 test samples. At Essentium he combined hands-on process improvements, patentable innovations, and Python tooling to improve print reliability and material characterization; he now applies that process rigor to wet-etch and fab engineering at Samsung Semiconductor. Comfortable spanning applied research, project management, and manufacturing scale-up, he brings a rare blend of deep polymer science, practical extrusion know-how, and data-driven automation. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex material behavior into usable production specs and cost models that de-risk adoption of novel AM materials.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Polymer/Plastics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Polymer/Plastics Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spanish