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Create and teach personalized sailing lessons to sailors of all ages and experience levels.Lead personalized tours through Pleasant Bay; providing information regarding natural history and current ecological developments. Maintain and service all equipment, focusing on small boat repair and general engine servicing.Be able to interact with guests of all temperaments and backgrounds to quickly determine their goals and level of interaction in order to maximize experience satisfaction.

Coordinated and authored outreach to potential investment firms. Responsible for authoring and responding to emails, compiling and providing progress reports.Developed marketing content for a new website design. Authored business and practice summaries to fit an established information structure.Analyzed client firms and constructed portfolios of potential investors. Began development of an ongoing CRM database to improve future business opportunities.

Identified a lack of available literature discussing key recent industry trends, and as a result established new research objectives. Designed and wrote the group’s analysis protocols to quantify concentrations of 32 target compounds using GC-MS.Performed data collection and analysis on all samples using a Shimadzu GC-MS. Authored and presented the final report to the Berkshire Brewing Company and secured their partnership with UMass Amherst and the Mentzen research group going forward.

Designed and created comprehensive survey instruments used to test the effectiveness of different chemical education teaching methods.Worked with the UMass Amherst IRB to approve all necessary research instruments and informed consent documents.Coordinated and oversaw the distribution and collection of three rounds of surveys using the Qualitrics platform. Analyzed the collected data using IBM SPSS 23 to perform exploratory factor analysis and reliability testing.Established the framework for future instrument design and wrote the directional overview for new researchers.