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Champaign, Illinois, United States

-Led technical efforts to develop a novel, self-healing coating formulation from concept to production – working closely with the business team – to achieve a marketable formulation to satisfy a niche in the market.-Facilitated partnership between customers, suppliers, and members of the sales team to develop: research, sales, and product cost reduction.

-Developed and optimized coating and microcapsule formulations, over a broad range of resin chemistries, through collaboration with both internal and external teams.-Monitored samples for stability, and performance and conducted both internal testing and coordinated with external labs for validation.-Managed multiple, highly-detailed projects for internal.

Danville, Illinois

Overseeing many aspects of production ensuring quality and devising methods of improving not only product quality, but also safety and efficiency. analyzed production and quality data to root out problems in process. Utilizing both chemical techniques and information displayed in DeltaV and ProBox and stored in PI ProcessBook.

Assisted with fundraising by maintaining constituent profiles on Raiser's Edge software. Worked further in the cafeteria, chapel, and front office.

Bradley, Illinois

Worked with the Analytical group aiding in the determination of physical and chemical properties of products for both Research and quality control. Worked greatly with the determination of solid fat content utilizing FTIR, and FTNIR. Worked also with other analytical instruments: GC, HPLC, and Colorimeter.

Bradley, Illinois

Assisted in the development of new products for market. Ran predominantly esterification, and deodorization of lipids.