Worked within the restaurant industry for most of my undergraduate career. This not only gave me the tools to improve my interpersonal skills, it also opened the door for me to use the abilities acquired as a student to improve my performance as a manager and budget officer. My engineering knowledge and skills were exponentially improved as a graduate researcher in the Multifunctional Materials Lab. thanks to the supervision of Dr. Miguel Modestino. There I learned about material science, electrochemistry, characterization techniques, device fabrication, and further developed my critical thinking and problem solving skills.