• Provided technical solutions to production issues as it relates to ingredient, formulas, processing procedures, and specifications to ensure continuous production of existing products and maintain product quality and safety• Operated pilot plant equipment to facilitate new product development strategies• Developed experimental formulas, processing procedures, and specifications for raw ingredients and finished products for product improvement and cost reduction• Exposed to manufacturing environments for extended work days while maintaining safe conditions in both manufacturing and pilot plants• Organized and performed test to validate or modify experimental formulas on pilot machinery through industrial scaling• Established team morale and worked to ensure successful launches of new products, product improvements, cost reductions, and ingredient, formula, and process changes• Evaluated ingredients and processing techniques to identify and commercialize product improvement and cost reduction opportunities discovered through relevant new literature

• Developed a deep understanding of the growth and fermentation processes of both yeasts and bacterium• Maintained a library of over 2,000 yeast and bacterium strains for clients• Cultured and propagated strains for international commercial use• Quality control analysis routinely carried out to ensure only the products with the highest quality would be provided to the customers• Employed aseptic techniques within a sterile work environment• Worked closely with customers to answer questions as it related to ordering pure cultures and the requirements of the culture

• Worked for myself throughout college on a variety of installation and repair tasks• Excellent customer service, work ethics, and problem solving

• Experimental design and data analysis of novel alleles in plant genomes• Start to finish sample collection, tracking and processing of individual genomic data sets• Developed laboratory skills, including DNA processing techniques, equipment programming and software analysis • Designed, ordered and tested DNA primers for the discovered novel genes • Results and discussion of project were published in peer reviewed literature