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Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Massachusetts, United States

Operations Leadership Program: Rotation 4

• Managed a team of 25 associates and led cross-training plan for all old and new associates to improve assignments• Designed user-friendly Excel sheet using VBA to automate and improve accuracy of production reports• Designed interactive Excel sheet for data collection of new data opportunity• Led collection, organization, and analysis of inventory dataset to perform Root Cause Analysis and implement countermeasures to maintain inventory levels

Operations Leadership Program: Rotation 3

• Led and managed contract negotiations with indirect suppliers ($129.5k savings, $154.7k avoidance in 4 mo)• Developed negotiation strategies to guide internal stakeholders and conducted market analysis• Manipulated and utilized data from Power BI and Kofax to categorize of ~1200 suppliers• Supported sourcing workshop to identify $684k and $1.15M cost savings for the 2023 and 2024 funnel, respectively

Operation Leadership Program: Rotation 2

• Managed supplier facing and internal facing supply chain requests through a standardized change order process• Supported research for new product development utilizing the BioMek i7• Led the completion of 50% of the 2023 sustainment funnel projects in Genomics department

Operation Leadership Program: Rotation 1

• Updated preventative maintenance tasks for 40 new and existing machines to improve machine OEE• Designed Excel sheet to concatenate information from various sources to improve process• Edited ASME Y14.5M drawings for Rotor Balancing to identify removal material to prevent manufacturing error• Supported 3 Inventory Market Resizing Kaizens and 1 Standard Work Kaizen

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Developed and published automated data collection from image analysis to reduce overall collection and analysis time from multiple weeks to a few hours (93% reduction)• Conducted statistical analysis and created visualization of large data sets with RStudio, Python and GraphPad Prism• Lead and designed experiments to assess the fermentability and volatile compounds of Florida grown barley

Ashland, Virginia, United States

• Reduced cycle time of material picking by 80% through redesigning warehouse layout (1600+ hours saved / year) • Prepared 70% of company-wide product formulations for automation using lean tools PSP and 3P• Increased raw material warehouse capacity by 50% through efficient space usage

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Led new member training on customer service, product protocol, and closing/opening tasks• Reorganized work space to reduce prep and serving time from 10 minutes to 6.5 minutes• Delivered quality customer service through customer interaction, sanitary maintenance, and rapid order completion

Gainesville, Florida, United States

• Designed viability assay experiments to investigate relationship of a carbohydrate and surfactant on pathogens• Presented academic poster on findings of carbohydrate-surfactant complex at the CPaSS Conference• Maintained lab organization and weekly tasks to reach tight deadlines for data presentation

Byron, Georgia, United States

• Led experiments on fungal endophyte in pecan seedlings to test its virulence on common pecan pests• Applied Koch’s postulates to determine pathogenicity of fungal endophyte after isolation from inoculated pecan leaves• Managed the 2018 nematode culture reproduction with inoculation protocols, Excel tracking, and weekly reports• Collaborated with other interns to construct PowerPoint presentations

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering, Food Science Minor

Engineering Exchange Program

Activities and Societies: Food Innovator Program