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Lowell, MA, US

Durham, North Carolina, US

• Manager of technical projects from conception to production for Wolfspeed’s Radio Frequency Technology Development
• Managed 5 overlapping $1M+ technical projects, 3 completed and 2 ongoing, enabling new designs and business from aerospace and defense government projects to foundry applications to commercial cellular infrastructure.
• Communicated project plans and deviations to senior leadership via Gantt charts and risk management analyses through regular technical meetings and phase gate project management structure.
• Refined marketing roadmaping requests to functional project scopes and budgets working with directors of assembly, fabrication, and device design R&D groups.
• Cross-functional coordination with production quality team members to connect R&D engineers with production change review board (PCRB) cases and report high impact changes to senior leadership.

Durham, NC, US

• Research Scientist in the LED Fabrication R&D group
• Lead project manager for the qualification of new automotive LED chips.
• Launched two new major automotive LED devices to win new business and improve existing business partnerships.
• Improved margins of sapphire-based LED devices through low cost fabrication alternatives while also increasing device robustness.
• Created JSL and AutoIt programs to standardize and automate wafer tracking and component supply for customers.
• Created new LED fabrication designs using CAD software for improved device performance and increased device robustness.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, US

• The Tolman lab studies kinetic mechanisms of biorenewable polymers and bioinorganic systems.
• Improved synthesis of new chiral ligand frameworks to investigate ring opening polymerization (ROP) kinetics for polyesters in the Center for Sustainable Polymers.
• Designed a low toxicity organometallic catalyst to create biodegradable telechelic block co-polyesters in a one-pot room temperature synthesis.
• Characterized new polyesters synthesized by organometallic catalysis through SEC, DSC, TGA, and NMR end group analysis.
• Developed a MatLab script to automatically perform reaction progress kinetic analysis for concentration vs. time polymerization data making analysis much faster and efficient.
• Improved a 25 year old glovebox with a variable temperature cold bath and in situ FT-IR probe to measure very rapid lactone polymerization and determine activation parameters.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• The Shultz lab explores molecular electronics of stable and transient biradical complexes.
• Evaluated electronic and steric effects to electron transfer using air-stable organic biradical ligands appended to redox innocent and non-innocent metal centers.
• Optimized multistep synthesis of ligand components improving total yield by 10 fold.
• Designed valence tautomer spintronic materials to study conductance in collaboration with Wei You at UNC Chapel Hill.
• Standardized preparation and mounting in a polymer matrix for cryogenic sample measurement as manager of liquid He UV-Vis spectrometer and SQUID magnetometer.
• Wrote MatLab scripts analyzing magnetometric or spectroscopic Boltzmann populations.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, US

• OraSure is known for medical diagnostic kits and over-the-counter home HIV testing devices.This position was during the summer of 2008 and 2009 during my undergraduate degree.
• Evaluated detection efficiencies in sonic welded oral HIV and HCV testing devices through batch testing in a clean room environment.
• Verified device detection accuracy of saliva samples against standard calibrations for amphetamines and narcotics using HPLC-MS.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemistry

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemistry