Ryan Dowdy Email & Phone Number

Oakland, CA, US

Daly City, California, US

• ▶ Supervisor: Ranjan Patnaik, CTO
• Role: Work closely with the CTO to direct all the critical cross-department projects in the Technology Organization. Manage external technology collaborations. Develop and direct Technology departmental goals in.
• For Company and Industry: First Food Scientist in a Chief of Staff role.▶ Streamlined the functioning and efficiency of departmental leadership meetings which resulted in bringing clarity and alignment across the.

Washington, DC, US

• ▶ Supervisor: Liz Specht, VP of Science & Technology
• Role: Collaborated with the VP of Science & Technology to develop and implement a strategic vision for ongoing technical analyses and worked collaboratively across GFI to align goals, coordinate activities, and report.
• Secured $450K in external funding as lead writer on department analysis grants.
• Established and directed the departmental RFP process for partnering with external consultants.
• Negotiated external partnerships and contracts with consultants to multiply organizational impact.▶ Led pipeline creation for faster start-to-finish production of over 30 white space thought leadership pieces.
• Led project management and documentation that accelerated The Good Food Institute’s time topublication for thought leadership pieces in the Advancing Solutions for Alternative Proteins (ASAP)database.▶ Managed The Good.

Washington, DC, US

• ▶ Supervisor: Darby Magruder, SF4 Branch Chief
• Role: Served as lead Food Scientist and System Manager for the International Space Station Food System. Developed pre-flight and in-flight food systems in alignment with human spaceflight objectives. Coordinated food.
• Generated a 28% decrease in food waste by utilizing data science tools and conducting analysis on over five years of food consumption records.
• Led Usage Rate Improvements Team that received NASA Group Achievement Award for exceptional focus, excellence, and commitment to exceeding customer expectations by achieving efficiencies in the production and usage.
• Led team that received NASA Group Achievement Award for outstanding achievement in developing and executing new pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight food services in support of the SpaceX Demo-2 crew and launch group.

• Rhett & Link's Good Mythical Morning https://youtu.be/OD_atuNBI7o?t=684
• The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/ever-wondered-whats-on-the-astronauts-menu/2018/11/02/cf9afbd0-c34d-11e8-b338-a3289f6cb742_story.html?utm_term=.94079728dd62
• Michelle Khare - https://youtu.be/qmQeskMASA0?t=793
• NPR's Short Wave - https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782941088/one-small-step-for-cookie-baking
• Kelly Marie Tran and Naomi Ackie - https://youtu.be/O62LPeJwhRg?t=271

South San Francisco, CA, US

• ▶ Supervisor: Thomas Weinmaier, Bioinformatics Scientist
• Experience with Amazon Web Services S3, EC2, DynamoDB, SQS.
• Over 10,000 files curated for internal R&D use.
• Wrote company protocols document for NGS demultiplexing, 16S binning, BLAST, and Pfam hmmscan.
• Completed writing solutions report for client with two-week turnaround.

Davis, California, US

• ▶ Graduated March 20, 2018
• Thesis title: Spatial and phylogenetic assessment of biofilms in microbial fuel cells
• Thesis advisor: Prof. Christopher W. Simmons, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Food Science & Technology
• DEB Advisor: Dr. Judith A. Kjelstrom, Director, UC Davis Biotechnology Program*The DEB graduate program (deb.ucdavis.edu) is an inter-graduate group program involving faculty and students from 29 STEM disciplines. It.

Washington, DC, US

• ▶ Supervisor: Vickie Kloeris, International Space Station Food Systems Manager
• Job shadowed manager of International Space Station Food System.
• Contributed ISO 9000 quality control documentation to NASA SOPs, still in use.
• Developed data analysis methods to predict astronaut food consumption.

• ▶ Supervisor: Dr. Roy Carter, Senior Director of Development
• Spearheaded the creation of a contacts, organizations, and technologies many-to-many database in MS Access.
• Successfully transitioned to and built a customized SugarCRM customer-relationship-management database.

Washington, DC, US

• ▶ Supervisor: Dr. Grace Douglas, Advanced Food Technology Lead Scientist
• Performed non-linear optimization of a functional food to fit NASA nutritional needs.
• Correctly calculated the team project would cut food launch costs by $750,000 per mission.
• Spreadsheets are still used today by NASA for food product formulation.
• Asked to return for a second internship.

• ▶ Supervisor: Dr. Josip Simunovic, Research Prof., North Carolina State University, Dept. of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences.
• Investigated the use of thermoelectric generators in thermal food processing environments (NCSU Research Fellowship).
• Performed proof-of-concept experimentation on thermoelectric generator IP to demonstrate feasibility to investors
• Developed a unique process to quantify power output using voltmeters and laboratory hotplates.
• Awarded Undergraduate Research Symposium Award for poster presentation of research findings.

• ▶ Supervisor: Dr. David P. Green, Prof. and Dept. Extension Leader, North Carolina State University, Dept. of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences.
• Engineered a saltwater ozone recirculation tank for antimicrobial research.
• Developed preliminary experimentation procedures and helped secure $10,000 grant for the laboratory.
• Poster presentation at 2014 Sigma Xi Conference in RTP, North Carolina.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Ph.D., Food Science And Technology

Post-Baccalaureate, Food Science

B.A., English, Music, Creative Writing

Education record