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• Analyzed unit costs for products and calculated profit margins for each product.
• Developed and managed relationships with international wholesalers. Benchmarked providers to find quality materials at the best price. Cut cost margins by 10% and provided superior product quality.
• Increased company's revenue by 50% year-over-year by adding additional products to portfolio.
• Led user interface website development between design and software teams. Implemented website/online store (themakeamemoryfamily.com), expanding orders by 15%.

• Led equity market research using FactSet and Bloomberg for healthcare sector of Rice’s student led endowment fund.
• Valued and pitched four stocks to senior analysts and professors. One of five students selected to give stock pitch to board of directors after identified stock was acquired and saw 90% single day increase in price.
• Discuss macroeconomic conditions with analysts, developing economic hypotheses and investment strategies.

New Port Richey, Florida, United States

• Led market research on marine industry’s shift to alternative fuels, leading to strategic recommendations for Pall. Research involved regulation and technological analysis using expert reports and customer interviews.
• Developed financial model to assess the impact of fuel and tax price fluctuations on the viability of the energy transition, addressing the threshold for achieving profitability with alternative fuels.
• Designed questions and led discussions with experts sourced through Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) to understand market trends and industry needs. Collaborated with internal teams about adding such products to portfolio.

Garden Grove, California, United States

• Investigated non-conforming materials, analyzed root cause, and proposed solutions to avoid customer backorders
• Led cross-departmental team to revise and improve quality release protocol. Revision comprised of streamlining product release protocol by designing and implementing Excel workbooks to automate time-consuming processes.
• Collaborated with R&D and manufacturing in design transfer and scale up studies to determine optimal conditions to match small-scale performance, involving filtration of 200+ protein stocks.

Irvine, California, United States

• Oversaw technical development of novel diagnostic assay. Involved in determining market needs, development of assay, and integration onto in-house analyzer.
• Effectively communicated results to both scientific and non-scientific groups of company, resulting in a better understanding of the development process and timeline, allowing internal teams to efficiently collaborate.
• Prepared and presented weekly updates to management. Documented project progress and proposed next steps.

UCSD

In the Metallo lab, I researched the effect of branched chain amino acids on the metabolism, primarily looking at gene expression as well as metabolite abundances/lipid classes using a GC-MS/LC-MS.

Irvine, CA

As an intern in the Research & Development Biology department at Fluxergy, I optimized assays for the Fluxergy Point of Care system that is currently in development. These optimizations involved different additions to qPCR reaction mixes in order to create a sensitive and specific tests to detect targets in the sample.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, Finance, 3.98/4.00

Bachelor'S Of Science, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, 3.99/4.00