• Strategic management and development of UOP’s Emerging Renewable Fuels product portfolio

• Technology Manager for UOP’s Alcohol to Jet Fuel processes • Coordinate with Sales, Engineering, and Business Development to implement sales strategy for customer projects, and create technical proposals, presentations, and guarantee agreements

• Led R&D teams responsible for advancing UOP’s Renewables upgrading technologies• Focused on developing catalysts and processes to convert renewable feed sources into green transportation fuels

• R&D Project Manager and Technical Lead for Ionic Liquid Alkylation Technology at UOP• Led project through stage gate process, coordinated pilot plant testing, managed Alkylation IP portfolio, prepared customer yield estimates, point of contact for external development partners

• R&D Engineer for the development and production of catalysts & adsorbents used in the Refining and Petrochemicals industries

• Led new technology development for the Brand Protection Security Labels division, charged with identifying, developing, and implementing new security printing technologies• Project development and scale-up for novel wide-web thin-film coatings and adhesives products

• Brady’s Rotational Development Program, with assignments in industrial New Product Development, Manufacturing, and Project Management

• Designed and fabricated new platforms to generate, route and detect liquid droplets in microfluidic and microelectromechanical devices• Part of an NSF-funded Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) that developed technology for nanoscale manufacturing applications• President of the University of Illinois Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Council

• Biomedical Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (B-SURE Program)• Combinatorial organic chemistry synthesis for drug discovery applications