Experience

Illumina

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineer 2

  • Apr 2022 - Present



Biosplice Therapeutics

• United States
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Research Associate

  • Jun 2021 - Apr 2022

  San Diego, California, United States



Roswell

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Scientist

  • May 2021 - Jun 2021

  - Continued independent research, planning, and execution of a project to synthesize DNA/peptide conjugated Gold Nano-particles. - Wrote internal SOPs for reagent preparation and LC file naming conventions in addition to setting guidelines for reagent pass/fail criteria. - Primary point of contact for SEM imaging of Gold Nano-particle and on-chip experiments.

• Senior Research Associate

  • Jan 2020 - May 2021

  San Diego, California, United States - Synthesized, purified, and characterized non-endogenous hexaphosphate nucleotides via HPLC and UV-Vis. - Independently researched, planned, and executed a project to synthesize DNA/peptide conjugated Gold Nano-particles. - Quantified protein activity via gel and fluorescence assays to compare synthesized against native nucleotides.



Catalent Pharma Solutions

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analytical Chemist II

  • Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  Greater San Diego Area - Internalized and qualified 3rd party analytical methods of drug products and intermediates for use by QC. - Troubleshot, refined, and validated in-house analytical and cleaning methods. - Designed simple experiments and executed experiments independently (forced degradation, extraction parameters, etc.).

• Quality Control Chemist I

  • Aug 2017 - Jan 2019

  San Diego, CA - Executed U/HPLC methods and prepared samples, data packets, and summaries under GMP guidelines. - Independently analyzed stability of pharmaceutical products in addition to in-process and release testing. - Participated in the investigation and writing of out of specification reports and analytical deviations. - Conducted cleaning verifications of manufacturing equipment and validated analytical methods.



Lin BioScience

• Taiwan
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Associate

  • Apr 2017 - Aug 2017

  La Jolla Managed initial set-up of lab space and performed cost analysis of in-house synthesis of small molecule



UC San Diego

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Apr 2016 - Jun 2017

  La Jolla, CA Synthesized fluorescent thiano-derivatives of Guanine nucleobase in support of thiano-adenine research as a part of the Tor Group

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Jan 2016 - Mar 2016

  La Jolla, CA Scaled, analyzed, and characterized small molecules used in the synthesis of Bastadin-5 natural product as a part of the Molinski Group



Calibr at Scripps Research

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern

  • Jan 2017 - Mar 2017

  La Jolla, CA Synthesized linkers of varying PEG unit lengths for peptide drugs through conventional reactions in addition to using resin-bound substrates.