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Columbus, Ohio, United States

Owner of significant collection within consumer garments GORE-TEX portfolio.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

• Lead business development efforts for new market opportunities for Fabrics Division:
• Execute opportunities with a LEAN innovation mindset and a venture capital approach
• Drive deep customer and consumer interactions to develop new business models and solutions that deliver outstanding value propositions
• Lead a cross-functional team working both internally and externally to execute fast learning cycles

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

• Lead technology development efforts for new business opportunities:
• Explore the market, as part of a tandem team, to find exciting new problems to solve with attractive opportunity size for the Fabrics Division of W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
• Utilize technical expertise and customer interaction experience to bridge the external and internal to Gore environments.
• Work to translate externally described solution needs to material product attributes
• Share market learnings with the internal technical team to develop new material sets or leverage existing material solutions.
• Develop and implement technical plan to evaluate potential solutions.

Newark, Delaware

• Champion the technical work for a new business development effort within the Performance Solutions Division of W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc:
• Collaborate with sales and marketing team to understand the true user need and translate that information into technical characteristics which could be assessed in terms of product performance.
• Execute technical development in the fast paced and competitive mobile electronics industry
• Balance project pace with understand the science behind product performance in order to guarantee the fitness for use of the product.
• Lead root cause investigation into product performance failures
• The 3 years of technical work on this project resulted in two commercial products with several customers and a significant business opportunity for the company.

Newark, Delaware

• New Product Development Engineer for the Electronic Components business unit of the Performance Solutions Division at W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
• Developed test methods to better understand product Fitness for Use of new or derivative products.
• Test methods included assessing performance characteristics such as peel strength, compression resistance, environmental contamination durability, etc.
• Use of statistics to validate test methods and draw strong conclusions regarding product performance.
• Design engineering with use of SolidWorks to design and manufacture test fixtures that worked appropriately for the methods which were developed.

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• Intern for Process Controls and Design/Engineering Team in the Generated Gases Division:
• Worked on Siemens PCS7 process controls programming for an HPN project as well as related project documentation.
• Member of Regional Product Ownership Group and was responsible for the documentation for global product line equipment.
• Created national generic controls programming documents, transportation estimate documentation and North America plant start-up and commissioning documents.

Dublin, OH

- Research on bacterial detection in clinical samples using electrical impedance spectroscopy

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Kappa Alpha Theta, Society of Women Engineers

High School Diploma