• Developed and implemented a process to validate the market potential of 200 inventions per year by conducting secondary and primary research. This is improving patent expenditure decisions by eliminating non-marketable invention and helping researchers pivot their work to better suit industry needs.• Hire, train, and manage student analysts as they work on the aforementioned process. Edit, review, and present these reports to technology licensing managers and researchers.•… Show more • Developed and implemented a process to validate the market potential of 200 inventions per year by conducting secondary and primary research. This is improving patent expenditure decisions by eliminating non-marketable invention and helping researchers pivot their work to better suit industry needs.• Hire, train, and manage student analysts as they work on the aforementioned process. Edit, review, and present these reports to technology licensing managers and researchers.• Collaborating with other team members to build a wet-lab incubator and programming. Working with consultants to write government grants for program funding. Creating curriculum & content for education modules regarding technology commercialization for U faculty. Show less

Analyzed potential markets and applications for technologies developed at the University of Utah. Worked with professors from the departments of; chemistry, bioinformatics, material science engineering, biology, metallurgical engineering, architecture, medicinal chemistry, economics, and electrical engineering..

• Independently worked on the synthesis of bi-metallic complexes for use in the oxygen reduction reaction. Adapted synthesis procedures based on literature research which led to an increase in yield by several factors of 10.• Presented research at symposiums for Utah law makers and at an undergraduate research conference. Awarded research assistantship grants.