Mikyle Maneka Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts

• Installed the equipment and supervised bioprocessing projects including corn dry milling, corn wet milling, wheat milling, biomass pretreatment, fermentation and ultrafiltration on a pilot scale.• Prepared samples and performed process steps for research projects involving the use of moisture analyzers, digital mini-mills, countertop centrifuges, NIR grain analyzers, incubators and anaerobic chambers.• Sustained Laboratory conditions in accordance with safety regulations and maintained safety equipment.Link: https://ibrl.aces.illinois.edu/people/muhammad-mikyle/

• Wrote Standard Operating Procedures for Equipment, troubleshot malfunctioning equipment and carried out maintenance and repair procedures.• Monitored and assured compliance with GMPs and HACCP through proper documentation.• Assembled and disassembled production lines and supervised food production and packaging processes for different projects including pizza sauce, hot sauce, canned dogfood, canned beverages, butterbeer, kale, blanched collard greens, sweet peppers and pumpkin puree.Link: https://pilotplant.aces.illinois.edu/people/muhammad-mikyle/

• Determined the sites and installed Song-Meter Acoustic Recorders for acoustic monitoring of frogs.• Visually analyzed spectrograms and performed cluster analysis on the data collected, using Kaleidoscope Pro Bioacoustics software, to distinguish vocalizations of different frog species.• Created a custom classifier to identify mating calls of the ‘Pacific Tree Frog’ to be used on future recording.

• Diagnosed the steam-powered, temperature control PID loop for a Pizza Sauce production line. • Replaced the analog to pneumatic transducer and the steam valve being controlled by a microcontroller.• Documented the Troubleshooting Process and made recommendations regarding updating some parts of the Production line which were implemented shortly after my study.

• Corresponded with the technical advisor and the Professor on behalf of the team and delegated their insight and requirements to the team throughout the project.• Distributed work among team members based on strengths and held weekly progress meetings.• Designed the electronic control system of a four-chambered food dryer which dried food samples at the user set conditions simultaneously, for research purposes.• Coded an Arduino Mega as a finite state machine configured to control the heater element, fan, ultrasonic humidifier, wind speed sensors, humidity sensors and RTD temperature sensors.