Experience

Cyclopure
• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Director, Consumer Products Development - Environmental Engineering

  • Sep 2022 - Present


SC Johnson

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Associate Chemist

  • Oct 2018 - Sep 2022

  Repellents, formulator (2021-2022)* Developed new technology platform evaluating encapsulation methods Base of Pyramid, formulator and project manager (2020-2021)* Formulated innovative spatial repellents for mosquito-borne disease prevention strategies in poor, vulnerable, and difficult-to-reach communities with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UNITAID* Headed Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) testing to validate spatial repellent product and to generate global data* Led sustainability project to replace virgin HDPE with ocean-bound PCR for Mosquito Shield spatial repellent GSARA E2E Lead (2019-2020)* Managed multiple project timelines and test plans for international registrations of pest control and antimicrobial home cleaning products with global teamsPest Control, formulator (2018-2019)* Created a new digitally-native pest control brand, Bug Botanist, by supporting formulation and registration work* Produced and validated new safer efficacy insecticide aerosols and liquids while investigating new filling techniques for compressed gas aerosols Show less

• RD&E Intern, Pest Control

  • May 2018 - Oct 2018

  * Established and optimized a new non-human test method to support moisturization claim substantiations of new personal repellent lotion formulas, allowing streamlined but reliable testing for products requiring registration* Gained exposure in formulating lotions



University of Michigan

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant- Chemistry Department

  • May 2017 - Apr 2018

  * Helped to characterize a method for droplet tracking/incubation on microfluidic devices with a unique oil removal feature for applications in optical detection and immunoprecipitation assays * Developed a customized in-lab graft polymerization procedure for PAA surface treatment on PDMS Co-Author Publications: Lab on a Chip, 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C9LC00125E Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s10404-020-02354-2 * Helped to characterize a method for droplet tracking/incubation on microfluidic devices with a unique oil removal feature for applications in optical detection and immunoprecipitation assays * Developed a customized in-lab graft polymerization procedure for PAA surface treatment on PDMS Co-Author Publications: Lab on a Chip, 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C9LC00125E Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s10404-020-02354-2



Michigan Medicine

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant- Department of Radiology

  • Sep 2015 - Sep 2017

  * Characterized the in vitro stability of double emulsions with encapsulated payloads in acoustically responsive scaffolds (ARSs) for tissue engineering applications in angiogenesis based on a previous paper* Designed a new, robust, and reproducible SOP for the microfluidic fabrication of monodispersed emulsions used in subsequent lab studies for peer-reviewed journal papers, improving emulsion concentration change over time to 0% versus the 27% increase associated with the previous fabrication method* Investigated the in vitro effects of hydroxyapatite in ARSsCo-Author Publications:Acta Biomaterialia, 2016, DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2016.09.026Biomaterials, 2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.06.012Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 2018, DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2018.06.011 Show less

• Lab Volunteer- ECMO Lab

  • Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

  * Assisted in administering a variety of medications to lab animals, primarily sheep, via IV injections* Collected over 150 blood samples and entered data into Excel spreadsheets for artificial placenta and artificial lung medical projects* Monitored vital signs of lab animals by operating IV drip, blood gas machine, and ECMO machine



Community Tissue Services

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research Intern

  • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

  * Performed over 30 automated Western blots for protein quantification of osteoblastic and osteoclastic activities in stem cells for a patent application * Validated the company’s automated cell counter complete with an original study design and final report * Drafted a literature review for a future tissue engineering study about mineralizing tendons in allografts * Analyzed data in Excel for three company studies and one patent application * Performed over 30 automated Western blots for protein quantification of osteoblastic and osteoclastic activities in stem cells for a patent application * Validated the company’s automated cell counter complete with an original study design and final report * Drafted a literature review for a future tissue engineering study about mineralizing tendons in allografts * Analyzed data in Excel for three company studies and one patent application