• Designing, organizing, and staffing Citrus Tonality projects from research to launch by leading a cross-functional team while creating an effective environment that generates innovative solutions to technical problems.• Driving all technical innovation activities related to Citrus Innovation Project as the technical go-to, ensuring relevance and effectiveness of scientific plan.• Working with regional & global partners internally and externally to ensure products and solutions are relevant and documented from design to launch.

• Spearheaded multiple beverage product development projects, including TiO2 replacement, beer clouding, beverage reformulations and starch optimization from benchtop testing to scale-up, increasing market share within first year in raw material sourcing and completing over 300 clean label formula revisions • Co-created beverages with manufacturers and marketing, leading program management, formula development, sensory collection, and developing high quality solutions against aggressive cost targets • Led global cross-functional teams in the expansion of value propositions for raw materials, resulting in a library of expanded specs to increase raw material footprint• Identified and implemented new processing techniques and equipment upgrades to enhance product testing processes, resulting in improved accuracy and efficiency and reducing manufacturing costs by 32% while maintaining or products through quality control.

• Developed process for optimized scale-up of liquid and powdered encapsulated flavors that created over $7MM in long-term savings, and eliminated safety hazards within process to improve total hazard profile• Managed and developed global flavor database with identifying specs, costing, and potential applications and implemented globally to reduce redundancies and identify cross-category efficiencies • Developed standardized global stability processes to ensure data transferability across markets • Created unique sweetener combinations to improve market products’ health and sugar profile in accordance with marketing, regulatory, and consumer targets • Led continuous improvement programs, identifying flash loss, yield loss, and process redundancies across beverage, bakery, and other categories to improve processing lead times and throughput.

Taste modification and applications scientist, responsible for profile-matching ingredients to competitive products, delivering cost-savings, and improving overall liking on multiple food and beverage systems• Developed reduced-sugar Jello pudding and gelatin formulas, leveraging Stevia glycoside systems to facilitate new “50% reduced sugar” claims • Improved Gold Peak diet iced tea sweetener system, resulting in taste-match for Original flavor• Created original lemon-lime soda, to showcase new glycoside system for beverage companies• Developed Stevia library, collating chemical structure, sensory profile, cost, applications, etc

• Developed SMART flavor optimization program utilizing DOE with sensory and analytical inputs to create global flavor menu card flavor bank for utilization across gum and candy applications• Worked on Stride and Bubblicious reformulation, managing scale-up within pilot plant to improve texture, processing, and extended flavor release within matrix, supported by analytical and sensory testing• Worked with marketing and sensory to develop multiple formulas within gum and candy to improve consumer perception, validate long-lasting claims, and comply with regulatory requirements• Developed new techniques for documenting expenses, preventing many accidental pricing losses.

• Participated in the development and modification of new and existing ingredient technologies.• Supported multiple cross-discipline projects in a constantly changing environment.• Autonomous control over lab supply ordering and management to ensure availability.• Part of a team that served as the experimental template for global procedure development.• Hand-engineered a mechanical prototype for a powder mixer to improve mixer performance.

Part of a team that served as the experimental template for global procedure development, where I managed and documented first-run materials, procedures, testing, and formulations.• Personally engineered a prototype mechanical performance addition to a production line.

Tested and engineered new surgical tools and methods on cadavers to create new medical devicesDeveloped new ways of working surrounding implant testing and product development

Lab Technician responsible for reagent testing and lab upkeep. Responsible for timely report writing and sample processing to maintain high throughput.Stocking lab equipment, materials ordering, and clean-up processes

Legal Office administrative assistant, handling documents, scheduling, other administrative tasks