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United States

Lead operations for the Next Gen Network EBRG in the U.S. region. Spearhead programming, strategy development, and management of regional leadership team.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Site technical support for BCG manufacturing operations.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Providing technical support for vaccine candidate drug substance technology transfers.

• 3 year rotational program. First rotation in Environmental, Health, and Safety in Elkhorn, NE. Second rotation in Biologics Process Development and Commercialization in Oss, the Netherlands. Third rotation in Vaccine.
• Communications Committee: Co-led 10-person group to publish monthly communications growing business acumen for program members and demonstrate the value of the MLDP to internal stakeholders including program alumni.
• Class Cohort Project: Co-led a team of 7 on a project to develop a Practices Architecture Blueprint for Commissioning, Qualification, & Validation (CQV) documentation. The blueprint is now used by Merck as a standard.
• MPS Bootcamp: Developed a strategy to overlap intermediate production schedules for Gardasil®, which would close the exit cycle gap from 2.7 days to 1.8 days, enabling the area to produce ~40 more batches per year.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

• Third rotation in the Merck Manufacturing Leadership Development Program.
• Formalized media and sterile supply workstreams for project. Saved capital by co-locating with an existing manufacturing area, deferred a $1M capital investment in facility retrofit, and facilitated delivery of the.
• Drove major quality risk assessment activities for overall process and contamination assessments, enabling suitable and compliant facility, process, and equipment designs.
• Technical Operations representative for cell expansion, autoclave, & equipment working groups. Aided in timely equipment procurement, single-use component design, and re-use of equipment from a decommissioned facility.

Oss, The Netherlands

• Second rotation in the Merck Manufacturing Leadership Development Program.
• Led investigation and executed experimental design for a critical quality attribute (CQA) deviation during upstream processing for Keytruda®. Determined a previously unknown specification of a critical process.
• Key contributor to upstream medium filtration investigation, which enabled EMA approval of MSD-Oss to be the first internal supply node of Keytruda® Drug Substance. Served as point of contact for medium and filter.

Elkhorn, Nebraska

• First rotation in the Merck Manufacturing Leadership Development Program.
• Developed and administered safety risk assessment programs for Nebraska Operations and shared learnings to the Midwest region through SOP creation. Drove Equal Onus on site by upskilling employees to recognize unsafe.
• Supported Merck’s environmental sustainability goal to have >50% of sites at zero waste by 2025 by managing the Zero waste to landfill initiative for the Omaha Logistics Center. Implementation aimed to divert an.

Courses: Fluid Mechanics, Mass and Energy Balances, and Process Control Strategies (Head TA)Led recitation sections and held office hours to develop students’ knowledge on course material. Evaluated students’ performance on problem sets and exams.

Ithaca, NY

Direct engineering tasks and long-term team goals to build a car that operates on a pressure-producing reaction in intercollegiate competitions. Lead team meetings and coordinate lab hours, in which reactions and tests are run to optimize reaction parameters. Upgraded pressure car status from exploratory to competition-ready while facilitating a merger.

Ithaca, New York Area

Co-founder. Define team strategy and manage team assignments, grading, meetings, and team building events. Served as team representative to faculty adviser and engineering community. Troubleshoot technical problems and draft grant proposals.

West Point, PA

Designed and conducted an experiment to determine optimal media handling procedures in a bulk vaccine facility. Standardized product flow and evaluated process control set-points as continuous improvements during shutdown. Identified necessity for and developed protocol to ensure filling process compliance.

Tarrytown, NY

Launched a decision process for powder safety based on measured properties. Invented a screening technique for a previously unexplored powder characteristic relating to combustibility. Gathered information from suppliers, colleagues, and experimentation to build powder attribute database, which was submitted, along with a proposal, to the Beverages.

Mentor, OH

Teaching basic acting techniques in a 3-week day camp to children ages 8-15.

Wickliffe Pilot Plant, OH

Assisting engineers with organization and learning basic chemical engineering techniques.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Eng - Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: ChemE Car Project Team, Engineers for a Sustainable World Biofuels Project Team, Kappa Delta Sorority

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Class President, National Honor Society President, Robotics Team, Chemistry Club President, Varsity Girls.