Experience

Pebble Labs Inc.

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief of Staff

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States

• Interim Agriculture Program Lead

  • Mar 2023 - Jul 2023

  Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States

• Aquaculture Program Lead

  • Jun 2022 - Jan 2023

  Florida, United States

• Senior Research Scientist

  • Sep 2021 - Jun 2022

  Florida, United States

• Research Scientist

  • Mar 2020 - Sep 2021

  Florida, United States

• Post Doctoral Research Associate

  • Jan 2019 - Mar 2020

  Florida, United States



Anne Arundel Community College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • Sep 2016 - Dec 2016

  Arnold, Maryland Adjunct Professor of Fundamentals of Horticulture. Redesigned the syllabus for both the lecture and greenhouse sections of the course. Taught lectures and greenhouse sections of the course.



Prairie State College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • Aug 2013 - May 2016

  Greater Chicago Area Adjunct Professor for Cellular & Molecular Biology, General Biology and Organismal Biology, teaching both the lecture and laboratory sections of these courses.



Purdue University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Laboratory Technician

  • Aug 2012 - May 2013

  West Lafayette Investigated genetic pathways involved in Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation using mutated strains of Agrobacterium as well as plants with mutations in genes implicated in plant-bacteria interactions.

• Laboratory Associate

  • Feb 2012 - May 2012

  West Lafayette Used GC/MS to profile cuticle constituents of guayule, switchgrass and cotton.

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

  • Oct 2010 - Jan 2012

  Investigated a novel Arabidopsis mutant which exhibits enhanced tolerance to necrotrophic fungi, elucidated mechanisms of gene control leading to enhanced tolerance, highlighted steps in signal transduction pathways where gene of interest is involved including its mode of action. Used techniques such as EMSA and ChIP assays.

• Research Assistant/ Graduate Student

  • Jan 2005 - Aug 2010

  Lafayette, Indiana Area • Successfully optimized an existing cowpea transformation protocol by identifying and improving key steps therein leading to a 2.5% increase in transformation efficiency. • Successfully transformed cowpea with the sunflower seed albumin (ssa) gene, augmented most amino acids by 3-5% in transgenic plants, valine showed the highest increase of 42% over the control. • Explored the cuticle’s involvement in pepper fruit water loss using fruit from the near-isogenic advanced backcross… Show more • Successfully optimized an existing cowpea transformation protocol by identifying and improving key steps therein leading to a 2.5% increase in transformation efficiency. • Successfully transformed cowpea with the sunflower seed albumin (ssa) gene, augmented most amino acids by 3-5% in transgenic plants, valine showed the highest increase of 42% over the control. • Explored the cuticle’s involvement in pepper fruit water loss using fruit from the near-isogenic advanced backcross generation arising from hybridization of parents differing for both fruit water loss and fruit cuticle lipids, discovered that an increase in aliphatics corresponds to a reduction in water loss, whereas an increase in triterpenoids and sterols corresponds to an increase in water loss in pepper fruit, my results shed new light on the role of cuticle chemical constituents in fruit water loss, on the inheritance of fruit cuticle traits, and lay the groundwork for ongoing studies to identify specific quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that can be used for the genetic improvement of fruit shelf-life in pepper. Show less



Scientific and Industrial Research Center

• Staff Development Fellow

  • Jan 2002 - Oct 2004

  Harare, Zimbabwe • Transformed and regenerated tomato using the Agrobacterium method. • Genotyped an advanced back-cross population in corn to identify individual plants with QTLs for insect resistance and drought tolerance as part of a marker-assisted breeding project.