Responsible for management of the phytopathology department at the BASF | Nunhems Acampo site. Lead a team to conduct plant disease diagnostics and disease resistance screenings for internal stakeholders and outside collaborators.

• Provided technical training for Bio-Rad's customers who purchased DNA quantification instruments (droplet digital PCR and qPCR) to help them implement technology in their workflows while maintaining >98% customer satisfaction. • Subject matter expert and consultant for Bio-Rad's genomics technology, providing complex troubleshooting, experiment design, assay design, regulatory, and data analysis recommendations for bio-tech and pharmaceutical customers which resulted in sales leadership award in 2022. • Partnered with sales team members to provide subject matter expertise to potential customers and demonstrate instrument performance which led to 115% sales target in 2022.• Facilitated collaborations among diverse stakeholders, including academic researchers, company executives, and Bio-Rad product managers, to support customers research needs supporting ~$2.5M instrument upgrades from repeat customers.• Mentored junior team members through hands-on training, weekly meetings, and goal setting contributing to team members fully onboarding

Developed custom bioinformatics pipeline implemented on a high performance computing cluster to analyze target capture PacBio long read sequencing data from soybean. Key bioinformatics skills used: Bash/Linux shell scripting, R and Python software packages; variant detection tools for SNPs/Indels including GATK, bcftools, snpEFF, VEP; phylogenetic tree construction with RaxML, unsupervised machine learning using kmeans and hierarchical clustering.

My dissertation focused on identifying viruses that are of high risk to wheat production in Ohio and quantifying their impact on wheat growth, yield, and quality. The goal was to develop solutions for wheat growers to mitigate the economic impact of viral diseases in their production systems. We created a comprehensive database of known, novel, and first-reported viruses potentially impacting wheat production in Ohio. We for the first time demonstrated that brome mosaic virus, a virus previously thought as an unimportant pathogen, can have a high (cause up to $25,302 loss) economic impact on wheat production. Some specific highlighted accomplishments are below:• Designed and implemented 5 major projects / 8 experiments / 3 locations / over 5 years in a field setting leading to 7 publications. • Collaborated with Ohio wheat growers to collect plant for a comprehensive statewide disease diagnostics survey in 2016 and 2017 leading to $25,000 in additional research grants from grower association. Developed a NGS bioinformatics pipeline to identify known and novel viruses from 3 RNAseq experiments for this project. • Optimized diagnostic assays and and molecular biology/biochemistry techniques including PCR, qPCR, primer design, cloning, ELISA, protein purification, and double-stranded RNA extraction leading to the development of new diagnostic assays to 5 previously undiscovered pathogens in Ohio. • Developed statistical analysis models to analyze the epidemiology, impact, and risk of wheat viruses using generalized linear mixed models, mixed model regression, logistic regression, cost-benefit analysis, spatial (runs and doublets) analysis, and meta-analysis leading to work being highlighted in USDA 2020 budget explanatory notes to U.S. congress (see below). • Strong science communicator to diverse audiences through written and oral formats as evidenced by 5 seminars, 3 technical presentations to farmers, 2 compendia, and 2 fact sheets for farmers.

Worked as a fine dining food server at the private Ingomar Club located in the historic Carson Mansion. Maintained high standards for customer service for high-end clientele, working as an server for small parties of 1-20 and at large banquets of up to 250 people. Fine dining food service requires high attention to detail, excellent knowledge of products, and following strict protocols for fine dining etiquette. Developed relationships with club members through providing personalized service, recommending food and wine that they enjoyed and anticipating their needs. Resolved customer complaints through using available resources to meet customer's expectations.

-Monitored native oak woodlands for the presence of Sudden Oak Death in Northern California. -Collected tree physiology data in an ecological study examining Douglas Fir encroachment into native oak woodlands in Northern California.-Collected data on pathogen presence and tree species in ecological studies examining the efficacy of different strategies to manage Sudden Oak Death. Developed data visualizations using ArcGIS for team to present to stakeholders and county government officials.

Responsible for maintaining the gardens at the private Ingomar Club. Responsibilities included mowing, raking leaves, transplanting bulbs, planting annuals, pruning plants, maintaining the pool.