Blanca Ramirez Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, US

• Traveled to national & international locations to support process re-location. I trained operators & engineers on processes with thorough examples of accepted parts and common defects, in both English & Spanish.
• Worked with Quality to ensure parts were meeting drawing specifications before used in production.
• Updated various work instructions for 3 process areas & assisted in operator & process lead training.
• Analyzed data per process to find the root cause for yield loss.

Berkeley, California, US

• Mentored incoming transfer students in the College of Chemistry through the Covalent Program.
• Held weekly open office hours, met biweekly with mentees, & presented a lecture for the Covalent Program seminar.

Berkeley, California, US

San Jose, California, US

• Led & supported Design of Experiments (DOE) testing which led to implementation onto the manufacturing floor.
• Updated 10+ work instructions to reflect new product configuration & supported technicians on training builds.
• Created a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) draft with a group of process engineers for processes that are in development.

San Jose, California, US

• Supported various projects, mainly focused on Development, Yield Improvement, and Capacity Improvement.
• Trained staff for new process implementations.
• Documented work instruction and process flow changes.
• Presented solutions to change control boards and consequently conducted weekly yield meetings.

Berkeley, CA, US

• Chemical Sciences Division Undergraduate Program is offered to incoming transfer students at UC Berkeley College of Chemistry. This internship was completed under the direction of Dr. Peter Agbo and Tobias Kistler.
• Created various Microporous Layers (MPLs) and spray coated these MPLs to test their efficiency to increase the conversion of carbon dioxide to ethylene.
• Trained to operate the AJA Orion sputtering system, SonoTek spray coater, Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDS), and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM).

Berkeley, CA, US

• Department of Energy (DOE) Community College Internship (CCI) Intern for the Summer 2020 and Fall 2020 terms, in the LBNL Energy Technologies Area under the direction of Dr. Michael Gerhardt and Dr. Adam Weber.
• Created and used a model in R to predict polysulfide electrolyte composition in redox flow batteries for large scale energy storage.
• This project was part of a collaboration with Raytheon Technologies, Pennsylvania State University, and MIT.

Berkeley, California, US

• Worked along side other student workers to ensure that chemistry laboratories were fully prepared and stocked with the necessary chemicals and materials for experiments to run smoothly every week.

Berkeley, California, US

• Worked with a General Chemistry I class to ensure that the laboratory section ran smoothly and provided help to students during their experiments.
• Had a mastery of the material and the experiments to assist students.
• Ensured that everyone followed lab safety procedures and that no one was in any immediate danger.

San Bernardino, California, US

• Tutored community college students from a wide range of ages and backgrounds in Chemistry and Mathematics.
• Educated students on strategies for effective studying, note taking, and test taking.
• Subjects tutored include: Introductory Chemistry, General Chemistry I, General Chemistry II, Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus I.

San Bernardino, California, US

• Held tutoring sessions three times a week for a General Chemistry II class taught by Dr. Jessy Lemieux.
• Created worksheets to assist students with topics covered in lecture weekly.
• Kept in close contact with Dr. Lemieux to ensure that I knew what topics were being covered during lectures and met his expectations of my sessions.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering

Analytical Chemistry

Chemistry