- Lead strategic technology development for new business opportunities- Leverage lean innovation principles to drive rapid learning cycles for new business opportunities- Scout for strategic partnerships, taking a corporate venture capital approach- Translate market learnings into technical requirements guiding development of new materials systems or use of existing Gore solutions- Create & execute IP strategy for new technology developments

Partnering with engineers to enable discovery of traceable, high fidelity materials/manufacturing data and informationCreate understanding of unmet & undeserved customer needs to inform product evolutionIdentify & develop synergistic product development partnership opportunitiesDevelop key relationships in select technical societies (e.g. AIChE, ASEE) to facilitate solution adoption & expansion

Advanced manufacturing methods are enabling new forms of augmented materials with unique combinations of properties.This gives rise to a high dimensional design space that can be most time/cost effectively explored through virtual protoyping. My primary focus was to develop model-based engineering approach to advance design tools of weft-knit fabric devices [flexible, yarn-based, composite materials] serving as enabling platforms for high value sensing, communication, & actuation end use applicationsWrote & executed mechanical testing protocols to characterize architectured materials systems including smart fabrics, to analyze failure modes and inform simulation

Introduced approximately 60 students ages 6-12 to programming and general engineering concepts in a new specialized robotics summer enrichment programDelivered group and individual instruction in LEGO NXT-G programming environment and Autodesk Inventor