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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. • Develop and execute IP strategy for new technology developments. • Leverage the Lean Innovation methodology to learn quickly and validate business model canvases for new business opportunities.

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