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San Francisco, CA, US

Redwood City, California, US

Downstream process development.

Boardman, Oregon, US

• Direct laboratory, operations, and maintenance staff on day-to-day tasks
• Executed aerobic fed-batch fermentation technology transfer from customer to Boardman site at 2L, 20L, 200L and 1700L scale
• Hands-on installation, start up, operation, troubleshooting, and procedure development for 2 L, 20 L, and 200 L fermentation reactors
• Served as on-site design lead for modifying 12,000 L aerobic fermentation vessel for axenic operation including piping layout, equipment selection, contractor selection, tank modifications, and DeltaV programming
• Work with equipment suppliers on specifying and qualifying equipment for axenic operation
• Coordinated lab and pilot trials for fermentation, cell filtration, and downstream processing alongside customer’s process development team

Lakewood, CO, US

• Management of laboratory activities and personnel
• Management of operations staff preceding and during multi-week pilot tests
• Developed technical processing plans for amino acid fermentations and down-stream processing
• Communicated with suppliers, subcontractors, and collaborators
• Sourcing and integration of equipment for pilot upgrades and quality improvement
• Serve as on-site technology lead for partner venture relationships

Lakewood, CO, US

• Management and troubleshooting of fermentation, hydrolysis, microfiltration, and distillation operations on pilot scale equipment.
• Collaborated with management, operators, and laboratory personnel to complete pilot plant trials in an organized and effective manner.
• Aided in startup of 3,000 gallon process tank for enzymatic saccharification runs.
• Designed and adapted process flow diagrams for proposed plant trials.
• Planned, organized, and conducted fermentations at 0.1 - 15,000 liter sizes for the production of ethanol, organic acids, and amino acids.
• Executed amino acid fermentation trials via seed culture, propagation, cell concentration, and fermentation exercising sterile techniques with lab scale equipment.

Lakewood, CO, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Contributing member to USDA funded Advanced Hardwood Biofuels (AHB) Northwest project. The mission of the project is to develop a bio-chemical and bio-fuel industry based on lignocellulosic feedstocks, in particular.
• Project-lead developing in-house methods for quantifying phenolics and protein in biomass.
• Literature research and adaptation of methods to utilize in-lab instruments.
• Experimentation with various phenol quantification techniques and result verification.
• Fermentation of synthetic sugar solutions at variable concentrations to emulate industry expectations in the production of acetic acid.
• Preparation of fermentation media, fermentation sampling, cell passaging, HPLC operation, and data analysis.