• Support tech transfers to manufacturing groups and optimize new and current processes.• Work with clients in execution of experiments and providing suggestions to improve process.• Lead department in equipment readiness for client projects for GMP and development production• Serve as designated trainer for various process and analytical equipment.• Manage material and equipment through navigation of TrackWise• Identify new material and equipment from vendors to improve manufacturing process.• Lead continuous improvement activities through GEMBA Walks in preparation of audits and safety inspections.• Optimize and build equipment lifecycle workflow by identifying gaps to increase efficiency.• Cross-train equipment commissioning and qualification workflow to multi-functional departments.• Write documents and procedures for facility start up, raw materials, and equipment user specifications in preparation for pilotruns and GMP production

• Answer supplier quality-related requirements and specifications for approval process• Collaborated with multi-functional departments on major milestones and decision points to advance project goals • Develop system to trend and track documentation of vendors and third party service providers used in a GMP controlled environment• Perform internal audit of laboratories to ensure harmonized validation of equipment used for development and GMP processes• Revise SOPs by assessing potential risks in response to external audits• Generate and assist in closure of CAPAs from external audits to increase quality of production• Execute risk assessments on manufacturing and analytical equipment to ensure that multi-functional departments adhere to data integrity programs and requirements• Audit logbooks and laboratory notebooks to ensure compliance

Department of Chemical Engineering• Explored alternate routes to petrochemical production to combat sustainability and environmental issues• Improved carotenoid production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae utilizing adaptive laboratory evolution techniques• Optimized bioreactor parameters and media composition to enhance protein production in the hyper-producer strain• Evaluated microbial growth and protein stability through HPLC and streak plating methods to ensure media composition is utilized properly by cells

Texas A&M Health Science Center | Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine• Investigated bio-physiological determinants of disparities in breast cancer incidence and outcome • Studied epigenetic mechanisms mediating effects of high fat diet on mammary tumor susceptibility • Employed cloning-based bisulfite sequencing to explore methylation of promoter regions in carcinogen-metabolism genes • Performed gene expression analysis at the protein and message levels through qPCR and Western blot to investigate concentration levels of protein among high and low tumor groups