• Help commercialize UCLA innovation by fostering startups, performing market research, and licensing intellectual property.• Hire, train, and manage 10+ interns• Emcee monthly networking event that hosts speakers discussing different aspects of entrepreneurship• Generated commercialization strategies and helped refine pitch deck for a life science startup• Integrated Microsoft Dynamics CRM into marketing and business development workflow to automate project management processes, create a centralized database for marketing campaigns, improve campaign efficiency, and track new metrics

• Analyzed the market potential, commercial applications, commercialization strategies, prior art, and competitor landscape for over 70 inventions from the life science and physical science fields• Helped a UCLA rotary engine innovation obtain licensing by identifying and contacting potential end-users and communicating the technology’s value proposition and market potential• Assisted an electric vehicle charging technology spin-off with market sizing, competitor analysis, and developing pricing strategies

• Performed root-cause failure analysis and crash investigations for marine corp. vertical-lift aircraft• Developed original standard operating procedure – foundry now meets national safety standards

• Improved optical fiber property (PMD) measurement accuracy by 5–8% in new product line• Presented to staff and senior management

• Interviewed technical staff to develop a better understanding of the process flow and operating inefficiencies• Designed novel in-house experiment, formed and managed a small team of engineers and scientists that improved optical fiber draw manufacturing efficiency by $614,000 annually, and presented to staff and senior management

• Operated spin-coaters, annealing furnaces, and DC magnetron sputterers for thin film deposition