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Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• Opened European market distribution by securing CE marking for 37 products• Executed environmental testing protocol for expansion into emerging verticals: Life Sciences (Gene Therapy), Healthcare, and Long-Term Care.• Launched cross-functional team of internal and external partners for development of new in-line filter.• Developed documentation system and authored Standard Operating Procedures.

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

Business Development Leadership• Helped increase sales by ≥33%.• Worked with external and internal partners to stream line quoting, testing strategy, and reporting to decrease cost and timelines by 50%.• Drove 400k revenue to 1.2MM increase in year-on-year from inter-company sales • Initiated and developed web lead routing system and role for the NAmerican division• Conducted study to support deal structure change, leading to 100% revenue increase from affected department.Technical Account and Project Management.• Managed year-long deformulation project encompassing 15 products. • Part of leadership team that initiated Food Contact Notification (extractables/leachables) business line.• Led root-cause analysis with external clients

Bethlehem, Pa

Research Focus: Linking system (polymer, plasticizer, active pharmaceutical ingredient) and processing conditions to domain structure and release profile.

Swiftwater, Pennsylvania Area

• Led equipment qualifications, cleaning, and process validation studies.• Increased project timeline meet and exceed rate by improving communications and processes between validation and other departments (analytical, engineering)

Master Of Science (M.S.), Chemical Engineering, 3.64

Investigation into pharmaceutical actives in polymeric delivery mechanisms.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering, 3.19

Activities and Societies: Phi Mu Alpha Penn State Marching Band