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Spring Hill, Tennessee, United States

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Responsible for structuring and establishing the first Powder Coating lab, supporting production and R&D, yearly revenue of $1 M.
• Perform trials to identify the pigments, flakes, and chemicals needed to satisfy custom color matches and customer requirements.
• Manage custom requests submitted from 40,000+ customer base, meeting and surpassing their color and application expectations.
• Evaluate formulated colors for criteria set by company and customers. Guide lines include Color ID, Hardness, Gloss, Texture, and UV Resistance.
• Trusted with formulation, maintenance, and post-chemical manipulation of custom and existing portfolio of 1000+ products.
• Responsible for research and development of new products and improvement of existing products.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Progressively trained and advanced through the lab process: Accessioning, Aliquoting, and Extractions, within a 6-month period. Maintained 100% “chain of custody” guidelines from receipt through sample preparation for further testing, capacity to process 60,000 tests daily.Extracted 30,000+ RNAs daily for SARS CoV-2 and Flu-A/B testing with Evo and King.

Thompsons Station, Tennessee, United States

Received and prepared raw and final products for further analytical testing for the largest pet food company in the world with estimated revenue of $18 billion.

Performed quality checks, identified defects, evaluated issues, provided solutions, and recommended improvements for a product line that produced 25,000 vehicles per day.Rendered escalated analysis, requested by GM leadership, for a hood defect, which required comprehensive analysis through all 5 levels of paint. Gathered, translated, and reported metrics.

Certification, Black Belt Six Sigma

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Engineering/Industrial Management

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry And Pre-Chemical Engineering