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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Leandro, California, Us

Kalda, LGBTQIA+ mental health app providing digital self-therapy and mindfulness practices.• Provide UX research guidance to leadership team by providing strategy, conducting research methods, and analysis. • Improve the end-to-end user flow for onboarding and guided programs by simplifying and reorganizing current UI information architecture. 7x7 Experience, virtual rideshare e-learning platform.• Partnered with lead designer to develop and implement user research strategy from planning, subject outreach, and user testing. • Redesigned web and mobile registration experience for rideshare e-learning Quality Improvement site by streamlining navigation for users with wireframe mockup solutions and reduced process steps by 20%.QTBIPOC Design, empowering QTBIPC designers with free and accessible education, mentorship, and networking opportunities.• Support website redesign and explore multiple concepts to elevate design systems for QTBIPOC design organization. • Improve site user flows by implementing onboarding feature for new committee members to streamline administrative tasks and collaboration.• Establish design principles and build out UI kit style guide in our Figma assets library to increase design production velocity and consistency.

Berkeley, California, Us

Group lead of fermentation lab operations team. Mentored and led a team of nine research associates and lab technicians, emphasizing growth development in daily lab operations for bench-scale (2L, 5L) precision fermentation of animal-free dairy products. • Managed communication, resourcing, and work scheduling of daily lab operations and experiment allocation with Head of Fermentation, ensuring that projects and key stakeholders were aligned. • Coordinated relationships with external vendors and R&D group leads on timelines, budgeting, and implementation of multiple in-house capital expenditure (CapEx) lab equipment such as bioreactors, LFH and BSC hoods, incubators, mass spectrometers, chillers, and -80 freezers.• Led facility build-out of two separate wet lab research areas by planning out logistics, designing floor plans, and sourcing consumables and equipment inventory supply. • Facilitated hiring of junior team members and implemented an onboarding training program to effectively train new hires to meet capacity increase goals and authorized lab instructional SOP documentation to maintain compliance.• Configured LIMS Benchling data architecture, schemas, and streamlined user interface (UI) scientific workflows to capture data more efficiently, accurately and make more accessible to internal and external R&D teams.

Berkeley, California, Us

Streamlined operations by leading continuous process improvement efforts and establishing essential department infrastructure, such as developing an operational excellence program, designing a virtual kanban inventory system, and introducing 5s lean practices to the entire company. • Co-managed fermentation and lab support personnel on a broad range of quality lab services and large-scale media quality improvements that reduced variability in the company’s pipeline.• Developed an Operational Excellence Program and dashboard to capture operational key performance indicators (KPIs), resulting in a 128% increase in operational success rate. • Coordinated pilot-scale feedstock runs with partnered CROs/CMOs by developing run plans, batch records, supply procurement, and communication between facilities.• Significantly reduced lab errors while improving cross-functional team communication by developing an agile scrum system to balance lab and administrative tasks efficiently.• Designed a virtual kanban system to effectively track par levels for consistent chemical and consumable inventory flow.

Berkeley, California, Us

Performed yeast-based fermentation at bench scale (1L, 2L) to pilot plant (250L) operations for the production and development of bioengineered spider silk. • Led pilot plant facility buildout by coordinating with Head of EHS and facilities team for equipment installations, electrical outlet needs, and streamlined 250L pilot-scale bioprocess operational workflows. • Worked closely with procurement to ensure lab consumables stock was unaffected by increased lead times. • Facilitated weekly lab operations and internal safety committee meetings to discuss scheduling, identify safety issues, and process continuous improvements.• Collaborated with downstream process team to execute protein extraction methods that resulted in developing a Gen 3, 3-unit process with >60% protein purity.• Generated and analyzed data into statistical programs to give technical reports and presentations to researchers and scientists for iterative feedback.

Emeryville, Ca, Us

Operated and monitored bench-scale (0.5L, 2L) fermentation supporting high-throughput Biofene strain and nutrient screening to identify improved production strains. • Spearheaded company-wide safety and lean management 5s program in R&D by developing an auditing system, standardizing work areas, and helping implement process improvements that improved safety and lab organization by 50%.• Updated standard operating procedures (SOPs) and trained new team members as part of onboarding process. • Supported team with set-up, bioprocess seed train, inoculation, data analysis, sampling, assays, and troubleshooting of multiple experiments.• Routinely interacted with various departments as a point-person for projects and presented experiment planning and findings at departmental meetings.

South San Francisco, California, Us

Collaborated between R&D researchers and lab services media prep group to provide order updates, chemical and media inventory management, confirmation, and delivery status.• Maintained media and consumable inventory for 20+ satellite locations while serving as a liaison between gRED customers and lab staff to ensure efficient and uninterrupted daily workflow.• Prepared small to large-scale media orders, including bacteriological, tissue culture, buffers, and agar plates. • Performed weekly maintenance tasks such as microbial testing, expired chemical sweep, incubator, hood cleaning, balance weight checks, and equipment maintenance.• Led monthly 5s lab organization and safety audits as 5s Safety coordinator by collaborating with team to standardize operational efficiencies and identify waste streams.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Physiology, General

Ux Design With Ui Specialization

Industrial Biotechnology Workshop, Metabolic Engineering And Microbial Fermentation

Biomanufacturing