- Proactively identify and reduce environmental, health and safety risk related to capital investment, productivity and other projects/changes through effective management of change, EHS risk assessment, EHS design review/input and compliance assurance with applicable EHS Standards, regulations, engineering standards, and best practices.- Develop processes, tools, systems, and ways of working designed to ensure that EHS risk analysis and mitigation is incorporated into project (new/change) planning, execution, and validation.- Manage property risk management (human elements) for North America.- Stakeholder in the procurement and development of raw material and packaging for product development. Strategize with Research and Innovation to reduce both physical and health exposures to floor operators.

- Managed industrial hygiene programs and assist in other health and safety initiatives to reduce occupational injuries and illnesses, through the promotion of an interdependent safety culture in Danone North America (DNA) (14 manufacturing facilities: 6,000+ employees).- Strategized, developed, and implemented a comprehensive Ergonomic Program inclusive of standard creation, risk assesment processes, engineering design specification, Steer-Co team lead, injury investigation, wearable technology, and training for both office and industrial settings. - Responsible for EHS programs, workers compensation claims, training, health and safety leadership team, and incident investigation within DNA Sales Organization (800+ office and remote employees).- Stakeholder in the procurement and development of raw material and packaging for product development. Strategize with Research and Innovation to reduce both physical and health exposures to floor operators.- Co-creator for Global EHS standards such as Hazardous Chemicals (trainer), Hazardous Gases, and Personal Protective Equipment through a risk-based approach.- Global Lead Auditor for DuPont programmed safety culture and safety compliance audits in Office and Manufacturing Environments. Certified Trainer for both Junior Auditors and Leadership Candidates.

Corporate Industrial Hygienist and Safety Specialist- Developed the role of an Industrial Hygienist for the company.-- Led site-specific teams to develop efficient solutions from the results of industrial hygiene assessments and monitoring to reduce exposure values to employees.-- Served as the Danone Industrial Hygiene SME for 13 manufacturing facilities, 2 pilot plants, and 2 headquarter offices to the network and aided in the creation of risk assessments for sites to develop both strategy in monitoring, project capitol, and compliance.- Played an integral part in the development of a network wide Hazardous Chemical Management standard as part of an overall chemical injury reduction strategy.- Strategically worked with Research and Innovation, and suppliers, to reduce the amounts of chemicals of high concern for employee exposure through the raw material and ingredients approval process.-Junior Auditor for DuPont programmed safety culture and safety compliance audits. -Created the Flammability Standard for the purchasing of ingredients and flavors across DNA.-Served as on-site resource to ensure reduced EHS risk in current projects, manufacturing, and regulation.

Fab 25 Manufacturing Facility, Austin, Texas-Monitored employee exposure to noise, chemicals, radiation, and other occupational hazards. From these results, integrated solutions to eliminate or minimize potential exposure to the employee.-Engineered injury reducing solutions such as: ergonomic solutions for tools in the Fab to reduce stress and injury to both wafer and maintenance technicians; introducing a foot and ankle conditioning program to reduce cases of plantar fasciitis; change of maintenance specs to include required PPE through acquired job hazard analysis-Spearheaded teams to integrate solutions for tools with safety concerns and high-level risk priority-Developed training and initiatives to upgrade employee knowledge for site wide safety, not limited to Job Safety Analysis, Hazard Recognition, and Toxicology-Improved Chemical Review Management, Hazard Communication, Hearing Conservation, Toxicology, and Personal Protective Equipment programs for efficiency across all affected personnel and to ensure proper risk management initiatives-Lead EHS-MS Internal and External Audit teams to better site programs, not only in EHS, through gap recognition and action item completion-Developed more efficient and integral solutions to user interface to in-house 5-Why Corrective Action system

Air Liquide USA LLC-Developed, implemented, and maintained standard operating procedure, process, and equipment standards and training-Drove companywide SafeTrack implementation by participating on steering committee and as a certified trainer-Conducted quality management system site audits – ISO 9001 Internal Auditor certification-Created and published weekly Health and Safety Insider Newsletters to be distributed to all employees-Performed analysis trends on all potential serious safety incidents, OSHA recordable injuries, and motor vehicle accidents as well as participated in investigations of these accidents-Developed hair follicle drug analysis program for company-Provided monthly gap analysis to ensure proper closure of CAPA exceptions and issues, as well as provided feedback on non-conformance through business entity-Kept HSE activities fresh throughout the corporate office including conducting and coordinating monthly safety meetings, coordinating CPR/First Aid/AED training-Developed the skills of employees in the Root Cause Analysis methodology, TapRooT, by being a trainer and resource-Maintained injury statistics and other HSE performance metric reports used to track trends

Texas A&M University, Department of Chemistry and Laboratory for Biological Mass Spectrometry; under direction of Dr. William K. Russell -Collected and analyzed protein and peptide samples using various protocols involving mass spectrometry-Designed and participated in individual and collaborative research projects-Purchased and received items for group members in lab