Lead scientific activities for company’s nutrition portfolio• Successfully contributed to new formulations, formula updates, and product development.• Formulated over 40 highly successful natural health products launched under the Blue Star Nutraceuticals™ and Femme Forme™ brands.• Received internationally renowned awards and nominations in “Best Sports Nutrition Supplement”, and “Best Sports Nutrition Food & Beverage” categories.• Achieved efficient productivity through effective management of scientists, formulators, co-manufacturers, flavorists, and regulatory personnel.• Improved department efficiency by establishing protocols and systems to enhance productivity. • Built strong relationships and communication with ingredient vendors to improve company resources.Internal and External Subject Matter Expert• Made substantial impact on novel formulations through identifying and critically evaluating new functional ingredients for claims substantiation and the identification of new product claims.• Ideated and secured corporate support for the development of consumer-facing science-based research webpages to enhance company’s scientific credibility and validate company’s scientifically based image.• Translated cellular, molecular and clinical research into easy to understand layman explanations.• Educated consumers and sales staff directly through oral presentations, science blogs, and videos. • Published more than 20 science-based blog-style articles and created over 15 educational videos.• Contributed to sales catalog and employee training manuals in the capacity of R&D expert.Cross-functional Cooperation & Teamwork• Synergized ideas with sales and marketing departments to provide guidance for business initiatives while also receiving inputs of consumer insights and competitive analyses. • Contributed to marketing content as a consultant, scriptwriter and spokesperson for the videographers, video-editors, graphic designers, and social media teams.

Collaborated on 2 large-scale clinical trials in exercise, metabolism and supplementation.• Key team member with substantial contributions to study designs, protocol development, and coordination of participant testing.• Utilized creativity to troubleshoot problems, while effectively working with teammates.Generated documents and presentations for funding procurement, education, and dissemination of research.• Presented data at 3 international level conferences on sport supplementation, fatigue, and circadian rhythm biology.• Acquired experienced with varied writing forms including a book chapter on the aging progression of muscle and joints, a commentary for the American College of Sports Medicine Bulletin, and 2 independent fellowship applications on genetic influences on exercise responsiveness.Expertise in:Transcranial Direct Current StimulationClinical Trial Management

Established relationships with academic and sports supplement industry collaborators to complete 2 projects focused on nutritional and exercise biology.• Presented data on findings at a national conference and contributed to 2 peer-reviewed publications.Expertise in:Cell culture experiments with C2C12 myoblastsMouse breedingInducible transgenic knockouts

Initiated, developed, executed, completed and published 2 large-scale clinical experimental trials. • Managed a research team of 10 people including nurses, physicians, graduate students and postdocs.• Completed studies resulted in 2 first-authored peer-reviewed publications.• Delivered 2 invited oral presentations and 6 poster presentations at international conferences.Initiated and executed a novel laboratory research project.• Implemented new and creative measurements for analyses, while expanding the scope of the laboratory.• Established inter-departmental collaborations to increase project efficiency.• Employed creative thinking techniques in order to interpret unexpected findings.Co-authored 12 additional manuscripts from other collaborative projects.• Worked as a team to assist with medical procedures, experimental protocols and analyses.Received 16 scholarships and honors.

Instructed over 400 undergraduate students in Human Exercise Physiology courses.• Delivered 3 hours of lecture material per week, supervised laboratory experiments, organized and directed class assignments, and evaluated reports.