Hard-working chemical engineer who is building a career in the chemical engineering industry. I am determined to develop a great career through good work ethic, time management, and skills in problem-solving, communication, teamwork, leadership, and organization. I hope to build a career in one of the following areas: Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Quality Control Engineering, Medical Devices, Materials Science, Chemistry, chemical absorption, nanomanufacturing, microscopy, etc.I have completed two research internships, as well as one industrial internship, each requiring significant team-work and individual contributions. In 2009, I worked as part of a Research Experience for Undergraduates program at the University of Puerto Rico, where I developed a repeatable method using chemically modified organic clays to adsorb pharmaceutical drugs from drinking water. After two months of research, I co-authored a peer-reviewed scientific journal article on my findings. In 2010, I worked as a research intern at the University of Stuttgart in Germany, where I improved the efficiency of in-lab compressed-natural by 8% by writing MATLAB code model heat and mass flows through various apparatuses. In 2012, I interned at SCHOTT AG, where I designed a quality control system for a glass melting tank to optimize parameters to minimize glass defects.Once I leave the University of California Irvine in March 2015, I would like to pursue work in the field of materials processing and characterization. I have experience running the following characterization machinery: Scanning Electron Microscope, Electron Dispersive Spectroscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, X-Ray Diffraction, Electron-Beam Lithography, Thermo-gravimetric Analysis, Ultraviolet Spectrometry, Raman Spectroscopy, Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Thermo-gravimetric Analysis, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller Characterization.