• Technical equipment lead for sterile boundary and dispense processo Led and executed C&Q for bulk drug substance sterile filtration, adjuvant adsorption, and dispense processes.o Served as technical SME for MES Batch Record design for sterile boundary and aseptic process simulation processes.o Trained 20+ operators across four shifts on closed processing procedures• Delivered complex microbial excursion Quality Notification (QN) investigations with robust root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action (CAPAs) implementation under accelerated timelines to enable on-time project milestones.• Developed sample management tracker, an end-to-end tool to manage the operational logistics of delivering 300+ samples across the purification process to 5+ QC testing labs.• Managed summerintern thatsupported process monitoring and data analytics projects.• Facilitated project scheduling across IPT of Environmental Monitoring PQ and Clean Utility PQ activities to mitigate risk of critical path timelines.

• Developed process training videos to mitigate quality risks and add production value upfront for new hires and future interns• Participated in manufacturing facility start-up activities such as Upstream suite staging and EMPQ • Collaborated with cross-functional team to expedite Installation/Operation Qualification of bioreactors

• Serve as the primary undergraduate researcher with an emphasis on the development of hydrogels for use in self-healing and synergistic drug delivery applications • Responsible for planning, synthesizing, and testing of various novel hydrogel technologies for the purpose of synergistic anti-cancer drug delivery

• Responsible for creating a nutrition education program for elementary-age students • Led creation of this new organization on campus as well as recruiting an executive board• Liaison between the elementary schools and volunteers and lead executive board meetings to ensure an inspiring and impactful program for the students

• Managed all aspects of assay development for measuring the anticancer and antioxidant capacity of curcumin producing cells• Engineered first-ever gene therapeutic lab-scale production of a plant biomolecule, curcumin, in human cells • Successfully demonstrated gene therapeutic potential in relation to aggressive breast cancer cell lines• First place in University of Kentucky Summer Research Poster Competition