• Adapt to changing priorities based on customer and company needs• Manage a team of associates while completing projects and trials occurring in manufacturing• Engage with colleagues to build relationships• Provide support to manufacturing associates by providing creative solutions to operational issues• Execute innovative strategies to increase quality and production• Train new associates and maintain records for talent development• Develop new commercial products and formulas and follow from lab scale to manufacturing• Plan and implement research and development projects• Test quality and approve new raw materials to be used in products and for cost savings• Collaborate with the Technical/Quality team and cross-functional teams to perform audits• Lead Chemist on two major company projects - top seal and liquid separation; executed multiple research projects to solve these quality concerns by gathering, processing, analyzing, and reporting data• Maintain records and document control to report out data, performance, and results• Assist other colleagues outside the scope of job requirements to meet customer needs to ensure customer satisfaction

• Collaborated with teachers to educate high school students in chemistry• Managed six classes to stay on track for meeting quarterly educational standards• Prepared lesson plans and laboratory experiments to promote hands on learning

I work in an office as the only student worker. I assisted on projects, organized files, created procedures, and helped with day-to-day operations.

• Onboarded new associates• Created new procedures to increase efficiency of our team• Managed inventory: incoming chemicals, proper disposal of empty bottles, and reoccurring audits• Prepared labs and chemicals for all chemistry courses

I assist chemistry professors in teaching lab. Throughout the lab, I assist students with laboratory procedures and instruct them where to put their waste. I assist in grading and entering grades into online gradebook.

I was assigned a student at Western Kentucky University to tutor. We would me as many times a week as the student preferred. I would assist them in their classes and help them to study.

I work as a substitute teacher only when I am on summer and winter breaks.