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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Troy, Michigan, Us

Meticulously analyzed polymers for commercial use at DOW Chemical, ensuring that information was entered and communicated promptly across several departments.Reviewed Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and Certificates of Analysis (CoA) to ensure that they were compliant with the plant’s needs.Input product data DOW’s product inventory data using SAP.Reported clean and accurate chemical data with pivot tables and charts in Excel.Shipped chemical samples to other laboratories and companies.

- Successfully completed an intensive project case competition with 4 well-trained teams. Case focused on applying data analysis skills to solve real world simulated client challenges and requests related to: analyzing customer loss and root causes, evaluating new business opportunities, summarizing results and proposing strategic recommendations. Exercise resulted in group presentations where root cause issues were identified and corrective actions were proposed based on findings - Series offered opportunities to closely collaborate with a diverse team of students, divide/conquer tasks and efficiently coordinate efforts to solve complex client requests under tight timelines. Received positive final assessment from instructor upon completion of program

- Completed an intensive course that taught Excel, Tableau, and MySQL's foundations and business applications and understanding of business requirements.- Completed analyses of several client scenarios using Tableau, SQL and Excel techniques

- Participated in a multi-day intensive technical training covering SQL, Tableau, Excel analytics methods to address real-world client challenges in a 'learn by doing' simulated job experience.- Excel: Developed essential reporting and data analysis skills utilizing VLOOKUP, SUMIFs, COUNTIFs and Pivot Tables to create custom reporting views and conduct deep-dives into business performance results.- Tableau: Created intuitive dashboard translating business requirements into meaningful visualizations and adding UX features (e.g. dynamic filters) to help identify insights, deep dive into trends/risks and make data-driven recommendations that resolved identified challenges for mock client.- SQL: Learned common SQL syntax and order of operations to build custom queries that met original business requirements. Utilized conditional logic statements (AND,OR) as well as data joins to blend data from tables to generate meaningful outputs solving more complex mock client requests.- Presentation development: Learned the art & science of creating effective presentations and key storytelling ingredients to captivate audiences. Conducted a presentation storyboard exercise and developed industry standard slides (delivery roadmap, performance update one-pager). - Directly experienced the importance of advancing professional 'soft' skills: collaborative work, peer-quality checks, mentorship support, group problem-solving and effective communication of analysis results.- Throughout course, experienced real world data orientation and management techniques to develop best practices in self-sufficiently interpreting, tracing and translating business requirements into technical deliverables and data assets.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Responsibilities included the ordering and procurement of materials for a lab, as well as using aseptic techniques in cell culture.

Haverford, Pa, Us

Synthetic Studies towards Lonazolac: A (3+2) Cycloaddition Approach. This project focused on the exploration of multiple synthetic routes towards the formation of Lonazolac via a (3+2) cycloaddition, rather than the typical condensation reaction. Grant Spoors supervised this project.

Haverford, Pa, Us

Oversee students in the laboratory to ensure that reactions are carried out smoothly and safely. Out-of-lab work includes taking helping students with analysis or understanding content, running NMRs, and preparing chemicals.

-Maintained the garden by weed whacking and manual weeding, pruning, raking and mulching.-Did general yard work such as removing outside fixtures, taking up trash, and draining hoses for winter.

Haverford, Pa, Us

This internship aimed to find alternate syntheses of Lonazolac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It also featured the purification and spectroscopic characterizations via TLC and NMR of each step of the synthesis. A poster of the motives, data, and results of my internship was made for a symposium.

Haverford, Pa, Us

My virtual internship focused on literature analyses to plan experiments for post-COVID ventures. I entered and organized the data and results of previous seniors' chemical research into more concise tables and documents.

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemistry

High School Diploma