• Daily customer interface to generate new business for magnetic resonance analytical instrumentation products.• Negotiate tailored contract terms and conditions. • Organize local sales strategy to maximize customer awareness and improve cross-selling among all Bruker product lines.• Maintain leads, accounts, opportunities, and sales funnel in CRM (Salesforce).• Manage large geographical territories.• Support customers in the following markets: Specialty Chemicals, Agrochemicals, Biofuels, Batteries, Cannabis, Forensics, Oil and Gas, Materials, Biotech, Academia.• Completed Miller-Heiman Strategic Selling with Perspective training.

Moved to IFF as part of DuPont Nutrition and Biosciences transaction.Led market expansion project into clinical and scientific reagent preservation. Delivered market landscape summary, value chain analysis, market size evaluation, and growth targets.Assigned project resources and advanced project to a commercial agreement with a customer.

DuPont Microbial Control (Formerly Dow Microbial Control)Pursued role expansion to additionally support European commercial team and customers.• Built technical relationships with key European customers; improved commercial interactions beyond procurement.• Led launch and market positioning of a new product, securing first sales and projected yearly revenue of >$1MM.• Served as technical expert to defend uses of key active ingredients to European regulatory authorities.

• Job-level promotion for increasing responsibility in the same role.• Active leader of innovation and selling projects in multiple markets.• Received business-wide award for Excellence in Customer Value Creation.

Customer Application Specialist - Technical Support and DevelopmentOil and GasBuilding and ConstructionProvide support for key customers by troubleshooting microbial contamination events and developing optimized biocide solutions to control problematic microorganisms. Design microbiological and analytical test methodologies, direct laboratory experiments, and interface with regulatory and product stewardship experts; Analyze and compile all results to provide microbicide product usage and implementation recommendations. Additionally, I educate the industry through tailored microbial control academies to ensure correct and sustainable product usage.• Technical lead for selling project portfolio of >$15MM.• Project manager for University Partnership Research Agreement with Ohio State University: "Leveraging microbial metabolisms to influence production chemistry and well longevity during energy extraction." Three-year, ~$300M research project• Project lead: New product concepts from R&D to commercialization. Strong collaboration with marketing, communications, regulatory, manufacturing, and internal R&D groups. • Conduct regular intellectual property search and analysis in diverse markets• Lead capability development project to measure chemical interactions with oilfield reservoir rock• Dedicated to STEM outreach, including judging student science fairs and leading a STEM activity night at a local school.

Advisor: Prof. Helen BlackwellDissertation: Development and Optimization of Chemical Tools for Modulating Quorum Sensing in P. aeruginosaUsed biologically inspired chemical tools to better understand and manipulate P. aeruginosa quorum sensing (QS). Elucidated effects of active efflux on QS inhibitors. Performed mechanistic analysis on chemical modulators to identify promising chemical scaffolds for further development.See publications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and ChemBioChem below.Led collaborations with research groups within and beyond the department of chemistry. Regularly presented findings and communicated research impact.

Held lectures for 20+ students in general chemistry and organic chemistry.

Facilitated the connection between researchers on campus and technology commercialization specialists. Educated students and faculty about WARF's mission, intellectual property management and current patent law.

Engineered biocatalysts for a current drug process. Utilized analytical and biochemical methods to optimize yield, selectivity, and stability of enzymes.

Completed multi-step syntheses of multifunctional linkers designed to be used in a near-infrared cancer detection probe.