• Drive innovation pipeline visibility and project prioritization within the Wipers Business through weekly R&E and business team cadences and monthly leadership reviews. Collaborate with global team to re-establish innovation gate process within the Wipers Team. Created and presented innovation gate training to an audience of 60+ and continue to mentor the team to maintain innovation gate process.• Lead and collaborate with the wiper business team on strategic projects – cost savings ($1.9MM savings), brand refresh, and renovations. Work with team to map out and communicate project milestones to key stakeholders

• Provided functional guidance and leadership of the KCP Home Professional portfolio. Partnered with marketing to develop the innovation pipeline, identified gaps in project resourcing, and built capability on the team. • Developed wiper products for KCP North America (NA) Wiper and HomePro Team. For the Wiper team, relaunched the Oil, Grease, and Ink Cloth and commercialized new products. For the HomePro team, commercialized one product ($0.5M NS) within one month and developed a new paint and stain wiper for Lowe's. Collaborated with our global R&E team to bring wiper innovation/renovation to our region via the Scott24 relaunch. • Provided life cycle support for our limited use wipers. Qualified new external convertors to meet increased demand. In-sourced converting to provide cost-savings of $400K. Worked with global partners to commercialize North America products locally.

• Lead the commercialization of new nonwovens materials. Work with the mill, sales team, product supply, planning, and quality to initiate and ramp up production of nonwovens materials for new external customers. Conduct risk analysis, plan commercial-scale trials, write specifications, and set up weekly cadence meetings with the cross-functional team. • Develop new materials for filtration and delivery systems product lines. Work with product team to identify market/customer needs. Create and evaluate pilot-scale prototypes. Plan experiments to scale-up promising prototypes to the commercial asset. • Implement cost-savings and provide technical support for the building materials product line. Identify ways to reduce cost of manufacturing through raw material changes, reclaim, and weight reductions. Solve technical issues related to quality and production of the grade

Investigate impact-initiated combustion of porous aluminum using time-resolved techniques, including UV/Vis spectroscopy and high speed imaging. Correlate deformation profiles observed by high speed camera to simulations to compare the densification and deformation of the sample. The overall project goal is to thermodynamically and kinetically characterize the impact-initiated combustion reaction.

Milton Eisenhower Research Center, researcher, 4/08 to 7/10.Worked as a researcher on several technical teams at once. Contributed to these defense-related projects by synthesizing polymers, biomaterials, and nanomaterials and by characterizing materials using microscopy, ellipsometry, zetasizer, thermal analysis, UV/Vis, and FTIR. Technical Services Department, chemist, 7/06 to 4/08Operated the testbed for a government-sponsored program. Set up the analytical laboratory, designed and built the test apparatus, analyzed the data, and reported the results to the sponsor. Performed GC/MS, FTIR, UV/Vis, and ICP-OES to analyze nonvolatile residues to support space department programs.

Conducted research investigating the interaction between reacting sites on a nickel electrode system when inhibitory connections are added. Simulated the behavior of the nickel electrode system using a mathematical modeling program and developed experiments to examine the bistability of the nickel electrodes in 1M sulfuric acid with negative coupling.

Conducted research investigating the impact of treated wastewater effluent on the characteristics and behavior of organic colloidal material in a receiving stream. Characterized wastewater samples by fluorescence excitation-emission matrix. Quantified colloidal sorption coefficients through fluorescence quenching experiments using perylene as a sorbate probe.

Conducted a research project to develop an efficient strategy to synthesize mono and disubstituted farnesol analogs, focusing on optimizing a key Suzuki coupling reaction. Devised a model study, applied the results to the actual case, and proved that the carbon-carbon bond between the diene and vinyl iodide was formed through NMR data.