Experience

UES, Inc.

• United States
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• NBMC Governing Council Member

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  Technical advising and participation in Nano-Bio Materials Consortion (NBMC) funded project reviews, council meetings, and proposal reviews.

• Team Leader

  • May 2021 - Present

  Interview and Manage contract employees located at WPAFB in the Polymer Responsive Materials Research Team under the Functional Materials Division of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the AirForce Research Labs (AFRL).

• Research Scientist

  • Feb 2019 - Present



American Chemical Society

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chair-Elect - Dayton Local Section

  • Jan 2022 - Present

• Alternate Councilor - Dayton Local Section

  • Jan 2020 - Dec 2021



Dayton Illustrations, LLC

• Client Discovery

  • Jun 2021 - Present

  Customer discovery and marketing for scientific illustration needs.www.daytonillustrations.com Customer discovery and marketing for scientific illustration needs.www.daytonillustrations.com



University of Massachusetts Amherst

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Graduate Student

  • Sep 2013 - Aug 2018

  - Design and synthesized monomers and highly planar conjugated polymers for increased device performance as compared to industry benchmark materials.- Elucidate unique ambipolar semiconducting properties in traditional n-type polymer semiconductors through meaningful collaborations with device engineers and theoretical physicists.- Explored design criteria for developing linear oligoacecnes with meaningful electronic properties by adopting an unconventional, zigzag mode of annulation.- Discover direct relationship between excited-state photo-physics kinetics with photo-oxidative stability of polyacenes through advance time-resolved spectroscopies. - Lectured three semesters of graduate level class upon fundamental step-growth, chain-growth, and cross-coupling polymerization. Concepts included, but not limited to, statistical-Carothers approach to condensation polymerization, radical polymerizations (ATRP, RAFT, NMP), and molecular structure-material property relationship. Characterization skills: - size exclusion chromatography- 1H, 13C, 19Si Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.- Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy- Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy- Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy- Cyclic Voltammetry- Time Resolved Photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy- Transient Absorption - Matrix assisted laser deionization time-of-flight (MALDI-ToF) and gas chromatography mass spec- differential scanning calorimetry- thermal gravitational analysis



The University of Southern Mississippi

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Student

  • Jul 2009 - Jun 2013

  Stimuli responsive peptide-based block copolymers for passive and activated cargo release:Synthetic aspects of the project involved chain-end modification and N-Carboxyanhydride ring opening polymerizations to tailor di- and tri-block copolymers for vesicle and micelle release. Solution characterization focused on static and dynamic light scattering, as well as UV/Vis to probe drug release from assemblies.Synthesis and rheological properties of urea-based organogels:Novel urea based organogelators were developed for applications in oil remediation and recovery. Project involved building a cavitation rheometer, which remains as the primary characterization tool for gel strength.



National Science Foundation (NSF)

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Dec 2012 - Jan 2013

  NSF International Research Experience for Students:High molecular weight of high dispersity-commercially available polysulfones were extracted via fractionation techniques for material-properties relationships. NSF International Research Experience for Students:High molecular weight of high dispersity-commercially available polysulfones were extracted via fractionation techniques for material-properties relationships.