Develops and implements the North American aerospace segment strategy.Owns and manages regional portfolio and innovation pipeline.Coordinates product launches and identifies new applications.Responsible for pricing strategy in alignment with global segment strategy. Interacts with key customers.

Responsible for managing a broad portfolio of products across all of BASF's operating divisions that relate to the aerospace industry. Managed internal R&D projects and secured their funding, ensuring timely and on-or-under budget deliverables. Drove complex customer relationships across the supply chain, ensuring BASF product recognition from airlines to OEMs to the tier suppliers.

Developed waterborne acrylic, styrene-acrylic, and styrene-butadiene polymer systems for the nonwoven and flooring industries. Application areas include masking tape saturants, natural and carbon fiber composites, carpet backing, residential and automotive filtration, et al. Responsible for polymer development, applications testing, and scale-up support for large scale manufacturing.

Provided regulatory support for the Aerospace Market Focus Team. Researched and developed a catalog of relevant regulations and identified flammability testing requirements for BASF materials to be sold into the aerospace industry.

Explored variety of low bandgap polymers for OFET and OPV applications. Probed donor-acceptor interactions and their roles in such fields. Work led to record setting mobilities in polymer OFETs and a patent with BASF AG. Dissertation title: Donor-Acceptor Polymers for Organic Electronics. Mentored by Prof. Dr. Klaus Muellen.

Masters of Science graduate in Organic Chemistry. Specialized in the synthesis and characterization of organic materials. Thesis title: Partially Fluorinated Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds: Synthesis and Supramolecular Behavior, mentored by Prof. Mark Watson.