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Santa Monica, CA, US

-Directed all research, development, and innovation initiative from concept discovery to commercialization for biocatalyst derived pheromone products. -Provided scientific and technical leadership in disciplines including strain engineering, bioprocess development and Technoeconomic analysis.-Managed toll manufacturing partner relationship in securing a.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

-Launched and managed internal bioprocessing team. Interfaced and executed technology transfers with toll manufacturing partners at pilot and commercial scale.-Successfully completed commercialization of biosynthesis process for insect pheromone through laboratory, pilot and production scale fermentation and product isolation

Greater Los Angeles Area

-Supported start-up business development by performing internal technical evaluation of business plans through investigation of patent and publish literature-Successfully obtained and managed NSF SBIR phase I and II grants (award # 1556064) for the development of foundational biosynthesis platform for insect pheromones. -Provided oversight during the.

Pasadena, California

-Developed a commercial screening kit of engineered carbene/nitrene transferases under a sponsored research agreement with Provivi, Inc.

Denver CO

-Developed improved industrial yeast strains for commercial production of isobutanol, a second-generation biofuel, by genetic manipulation of key proteins and metabolic pathways.-Implemented robotics and automation to enable rapid and precise evaluation of large (1,000s) strain libraries for desired phenotypes.

Pasadena, California

-Generated novel regio- and stereoselective enzyme variants of cytochrome P450s using directed evolution; broadened the substrate range of P450s to include small alkanes, methyl-protected sugars,and various aromatic compounds.-Developed high throughput screens for evaluation of enzymatic activity and applied a variety of protein engineering techniques to.

Santa Clara, California

-Formulated etching recipes on prototype plasma etching tool for customer demonstrations (Intel, IBM, and TSMC) as well as for internal dielectric materials development.-Oversaw and managed on-site etching tool installation and start-up (UMCi Singapore).-Provided training for local office staff on released instruments and coordinated with hardware support.

Berkeley, California

-Designed and synthesized meso-porous silica materials/catalysts using gold nanoparticles as a molecular imprinting scaffold.-Established florescence and UV/Vis assays for characterizing the interactions at the interface between the self-assembling monolayer of protecting thiols and gold nanoparticles used in molecular imprinting.

Phd, Chemical Engineering

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa