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Golden, Colorado, US

Managed the transition from completely outsourced software development to an in-house product development group. Owned many key technology decisions in the absence of a CTO while leading the effort to establish a product-centric culture with deep attention toward user experience. Improved communication and transparency with stakeholders and increased.

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• Transformed product group through hands-on leadership.
• Worked with CEO to establish desired company culture and to align the product group with that vision.
• Oversaw transformation from local team to fully-remote asynchronous international team.
• Established a UX research group.
• Implemented Agile, OKRs, and Outcome Driven Innovation.
• Implemented standardized UI design system.

• Increased gross sales by an average of 23% each year from 2009-2013. Maintained an average profit margin of 9%. All years were profitable.
• Oversaw geographic expansion from a local niche product to a nationally distributed brand name with retail presence in all 50 states.
• Supervised 20 employees and several key departments (Finance, Human Resources, Production, and Sales). Redesigned the performance evaluation process to increase employee productivity, growth and development, and job.
• Monitored Human Resources practices to identify and eliminate potential legal liabilities.
• Developed and maintained working relationships with financial institutions, distributors, and suppliers.

• Implemented zero-based budgeting to fully evaluate all expenses, operating procedures, and practices, resulting in a 12% decrease in manufacturing costs and a 36% increase in net profit, year over year.
• Eliminated production bottlenecks and increased productivity by acquiring several key pieces of processing equipment with short ROI time frames.
• Created custom growth projections and determined optimal strategies for expansion into new geographic and demographic areas. Consulted with CEO regularly on strategy in multiple areas of business.
• Upgraded primitive accounting practices to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Established a CRM for the sales department to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability.

Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, US

• Trading Assistant, Strategic Options Trading Group
• Worked with traders to analyze and manage stock and option risk throughout the trading day.
• Co-developed processes to perform daily reconciliation of stock and option positions and profit/loss for the entire trading desk.
• Participated in after-hours mock trading classes to develop options trading skills and to apply concepts from options theory to produce profitable options trading strategies.

Pasadena, CA, US

• Graduate Research Assistant, John F. Brady Research Group
• Designed and conducted computational experiments to study the effects of particle inertia on the sedimentation of solid particles through a viscous fluid. Research involved writing/modifying computer programs to.
• Trained several visiting faculty, post-doctoral scholars, and graduate students to use the computer programs for their own research.
• Served as a teaching assistant for undergraduate fluid mechanics and kinetics courses. Held office hours and individual meetings with students to address their difficulties with the material.

US

• Engineering Intern, Gas and Facilities Division, Liquefied Natural Gas Group
• Performed computer simulations using natural gas well modeling software to forecast the potential future deliverability of several wells located at the La Barge, WY well field. Delivered a recommendation based on the.
• Learned industry standards and practices for natural gas exploration, production, transport and sales.

US

• Engineering Intern, Baton Rouge Polyolefins, Polypropylene Division
• Designed and implemented changes to a powder transport step in the production process resulting in increased plant cleanliness, improved air quality, and decreased employee health and safety concerns.
• Designed improved methods for presenting plant operators with graphical information based on functionality and human-machine interaction considerations. Assisted in creation and documentation of the custom user.
• Gained experience in polymer manufacturing through analysis and presentation of daily process operating data and maintenance of operational databases and website.

San Antonio, TX, US

• Engineering Intern, Mechanical and Materials Engineering Division, Mechanical and Fluids Engineering Department, Flow Measurement Group
• Worked with industry experts in natural gas metering and sampling techniques on various consulting and research projects at the Gas Research Institute’s Metering Research Facility (operated by SwRI).
• Conducted a design review of a crude-oil metering skid and prover for pipeline custody-transfer metering in Mexico.
• Developed fluid-mechanical models to predict liquid droplet ingestion into gas sampling probes under two-phase flow conditions.

Rahway, New Jersey, US

• Engineering Intern, Merck Manufacturing Division
• Applied models and theory of industrial crystallization to determine what was causing the high rate of failure of reworked batches of product. Batches of product commonly failed final purity tests, but by FDA mandate.
• Developed and taught training courses for plant operators to acquaint them with new operating procedures following an extended factory shutdown for maintenance and system upgrades.
• Gained experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing through projects focusing on process improvement and analysis of daily operations, trending and analyzing process data, and assisting engineers in large factory-wide.

Boise, Idaho, US

• Engineering Intern, Wet Process R&D
• Performed research in the field of semiconductor manufacturing leading to the development of novel chemistries for etch processes involving experimental manufacturing materials.
• Presented research results to project engineers and department heads and gave my recommendations for the optimum composition of the etch chemistries to be implemented into production.

Boise, Idaho, US

• Engineering Intern, CMP R&D
• Performed research in the field of semiconductor manufacturing leading to the development of novel chemistries for the post-CMP cleaning process of wafers containing aluminum, then an experimental material. Research.
• Presented research results to project engineers and department heads and gave my recommendations for the optimum composition of the novel cleaning solution.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting

Master’S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Master'S Of Engineering, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemical Engineering