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Baytown, Texas, United States

• Monitor daily maintenance activities and provide engineering support to planning and execution in TDI Intermediates
• Analyze equipment failures, lead RCAs, and take corrective actions to improve maintenance processes
• Ensure repairs are completed as a result of inspections and develop opportunities to reduce repair costs

Baytown, Texas, United States

• Partnered with TDI Intermediates mechanical asset engineer to support capital projects and continuous improvement
• Setup and maintained FLOCs in SAP, issued MOCs, and helped manage capital spares replenishment
• Learned how to develop, implement, and evergreen reliability strategies for rotating and fixed equipment

Baytown, Texas

• Maintained and troubleshot instrumentation used to support PUR and Coatings quality and process improvement
• Calibrated and validated methods for routine testing, non-routine testing, and special projects
• Supported management of laboratory equipment through planning, purchasing, and documentation activities

Baytown, Texas

• Supported PUR production train with QA testing for raw materials, final products, and process samples
• Communicated regularly with production technicians to establish test priorities, results, and lot approvals
• Performed data entry via SAP and reviewed finished goods to ensure proper documentation for shipment

Juiz De Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

• Attended UFJF while working full-time teaching English as a foreign language to advanced and intermediate students for use in business, university, and travel

Austin, Texas Area

• Characterized polymeric-coated magnetic contrast agents for use in electromagnetic imaging of subsurface reservoirs.
• Analyzed effects of amphiphilic copolymer functionalized iron oxide nanoparticles on interfacial surfacetension reduction.
• Conducted batch tests of nanoparticles to model transport properties in porous media.
• Synthesized various monomers for hyperbranched polymers used in phase change control of ionic liquid crystal media

Austin, Texas Area

• Synthesized and characterized molecular wires for use in solar fuels and hybrid molecular/materials research
• Created N4 ligands and Fe, Co, Ni complexes to study their viability as hydrogen evolution catalystss
• Designed amino-silanes for use in steric-spacing of molecular wires and detection via XPS
• Conducted literature research to propose new synthetic pathways and confirm/analyze reaction products.

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemistry