• Acquired mass spectral data on standards for the mzCloud mass spectral database using an Advion Nanomate and Orbitrap fusion tribrid mass spectrometer • Reviewed and updated metadata information for over 10,000 compounds • Organized and gathered information on compounds based on market interest • Presented on library application solutions to various universities with the metabolomics team • Created application material to demonstrate a method for novel drug detection using Compound Discoverer• Tested software and applications that utilizes library searches (Mass Frontier, Compound Discoverer, mzVault, myLibrary enterprise, mzCloud).• Worked with developers to ensure applications work as intended by writing test cases, reporting bugs and verifying bug fixes.• Created tutorial videos using Davinci Resolve on how to use and navigate the myLibrary enterprise application. Videos showed how users could build their own mass spectral library• Created tutorial videos using Davinci Resolve on how to perform searches on the new mzCloud web application

• Showed students how to use various analytical instruments (FTIR, UV-Vis, NMR, GCMS, LCMS). and follow safety protocol• Assisted over 50 students in laboratorial work in Instrumental Analysis• Coordinated with professors to ensure labs met requirements• Assigned and graded formal lab reports written by students

• Developed methods to analyze essential oils using GC-MS• Coordinated projects for myself and undergraduate researchers• Strengthened analytical techniques and instrument maintenance

• Worked as a summer intern in the Invasive Insect Biocontrol and Behavior Laboratory• Synthesized organic compounds used for developing a fungicide and/or insecticide• Purified compounds by column chromatography • Collaborated with other scientist to test compounds on various biological samples• Used an Agilent GC/MS and Bruker 300 NMR.

• Guided students in lab and made sure they followed safety protocol• Assisted over 100 students with various chemistry concepts and calculations• Assigned and graded lab reports written by students

• Assisted staff with data mining and promotion of 2015 National Leadership Institute and regional events• Updated and created new databases on excel• Contributed to website and social media updates; monitored and posted web forums and social networks• Did online outreach and promotion using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.• Reviewed over 100 scholarships to find applicants that met scholarship qualifications• Worked with a team to plan and organize a leadership conference by coordinating with sponsors and speakers • Organized focus groups to receive feedback from past Adelante Leadership Institute attendees and use their feedback to improve future conferences

• Worked with professors to help set up over 20 labs and conduct various research projects.• Gained Good Laboratory Practices (e.g., handling of chemicals and glassware, preparation of buffers and reagents, and data management)• Worked with a RotoVap, Schlenk Line Apparatus, FTIR, UV-Vis, Mel-temp apparatus, 1H NMR, GC, GC/MS• Gained experience in recrystallization and filtration, extracting and washing, (prep) TLC, reflux, distillations (simple, fractional, vacuum)

• Worked on creating spreadsheets on excel for auditing and balancing purposes. • Responsible for checking if disbursement for retirement matched the spreadsheets, along with disbursement of pay to faculty, staff, and students.• Kept up with document retention policies and disposed of documents that did not need to be retained