Employee #1. Designing, building, testing, and improving carbon capture, data centers, and everything in between.

Zephyr developed HVAC technology utilizing liquid desiccants and membranes to dramatically cut energy consumption.As the third member of an early-stage cleantech startup, I held a wide range of responsibilities. I learned to adapt when needs and priorities could shift rapidly. Despite challenges, I was able to rapidly advance the development of Zephyr's core technology as we moved from theory to prototypes. Highlights included: - I developed models to guide our research and development process, ranging from system-level technoeconomic models to physics-based heat and mass transport membrane models. - I led our membrane research and development, which included designing experiments, sourcing and fabricating the experimental apparatus, running tests, analyzing data, and using results to produce actionable insights. - Along with my internal R\&D work, I also had an outward-facing role, which included communicating and building relationships with external technology partners, vendors, funding agencies, investors, potential hires, and more. - I managed and mentored a summer intern, helping her to gain experience in a variety of projects while accelerating our technology development.

Working to develop renewable and low-energy water treatment technologies for the future.

In my time at Gentex, my responsibilities included complex free body diagram modelling, spring development, new product research, design and development, fixture design, product testing, and finite element analysis. Highlights included development of exterior mirrors for Porsche and prototype development for new dimmable aircraft window technology.

During the summer of 2015, I worked in the Particle Flow & Tribology Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. I worked on a project to research metallic microparticle powder flow properties for additive manufacturing applications. My responsibilities included experiment research, design, and execution; ANSYS explicit dynamics modelling and simulations; computational model research; powder rheology experiments; and powder morphology data acquisition.