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New York, New York, United States

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Designed and prepared Amogy’s Virtual Data Room (VDR) for successful $150M Series B investment including ammonia market forecasts, value chain analysis, technoeconomic analysis of Amogy’s ammonia to-power system, and.
• Manage business development activities in power generation/utility industries for applications in generator replacement, microgrid development, seasonal storage, gas turbines, and large-scale hydrogen production.
• Managed and delivered study to identify target markets and associated technical/commercial feasibility of Amogy’s ammonia-to-power system.
• Coordinate interactions between external partners and R&D/Product Development teams for technical scoping.
• Developed strategy for catalyst commercialization based on market outlook for platinum group metals (PGMs).

Valhalla, New York, United States

• Managed design, installation, and commissioning of two pilot scale processes as lead Project Engineer: dual head bottle filling/capping system and a single head can filling system. These systems support both innovation.
• Developed, launched, and currently oversee site-wide asset management tool for Environmental Health and Safety team.
• Promote Good Manufacturing Practices as Processing Team Lab Manager. Maintain quality of lab equipment/supplies and oversee improvement projects. Managed lab move during August-November 2020 from satellite facility in.

Valhalla, New York, United States

• Designed and delivered preliminary material testing of new Mtn Dew Zero Sugar made of 100% recycled plastic (rPET).
• Ensured 100% rPET supply met packaging performance specifications for initial limited production run.

Valhalla, New York, United States

• Actively prepared and facilitated remote ideation workshops to build Global R&D pipeline through 2023 for $500MM worth of productivity savings. This has never been done in R&D previously.
• Workshop preparation included identifying key contacts, creating agendas, identifying and procuring relevant pre-work for brand guardrails, and designing ideation templates in online tool Mural.
• Presented final pipeline to senior leadership.
• Conducted external benchmarking study with productivity professionals within CPG industry to establish best practices.

• Emerging technical expert in beverage filling technology.
• Effectively managed technical vetting of the purchase of a new can filler for pilot plant upgrades.
• Delivered technically rigorous experimental results to optimize thermal processing of Drinkfinity pods.
• Developed most extensive knowledge base of filling technology within PepsiCo Global R&D.
• Overseeing and managing project and portfolio management within team with the use of project briefs and monthly updates.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Project 1: Optimization of carbon anode formulation
• Proposed process changes to lower electrical resistivity of carbon anodes, with an economic return of $0.46 million/yr.
• Identified areas of process variability during anode production using Fourier analysis through Matlab on raw plant data.Project 2: Optimizing cathode casting for lowest electrical contact resistance
• Researched cast-iron properties to determine cast-iron recipe that causes the lowest cathode voltage drop.
• Developed finite element analysis (FEA) model of carbon cathodes to investigate thermal, electrical, and mechanical effects.
• Created and modeled alternative cathode designs with FEA to reduce cathode voltage drop.

Pindamonhangaba Area, Brazil

• Performed a feasibility study for new pig iron production facilities in the USA and Brazil using biomass as a carbon source.
• Collaborated with Tecnored employees to refine economic assumptions of proposed facilities.
• Constructed economic model that quantified energy and environmental benefits of biomass usage.
• Verified economic results accounting for uncertain assumptions using Monte Carlo methods in Excel VBA.
• Presented weekly progress presentations to Vale executives and produced a final technical report for future investors.

Pisa, Italy

• Continued research of several Masters Theses and published scientific articles from the research group.
• Synthesized Lithium Orthosilicate pellets according to common literature techniques.
• Assessed efficiency of CO2 capture in pellets using Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) and FT-IR instrumentation.
• Performed laboratory scale experiments in a fixed bed reactor to study pellet regeneration properties for industrial processes.

Joliet, IL

• Shadowed Process Contact Engineer in daily unit operations of CCR/Reformer Complex.
• Developed first-pass design of continuous water wash system for hydrotreater heat exchangers.
• Calculated design benefits of $10MM over equipment lifespan. Final design approved for initial funding.
• Assessed validity of proposed design for SHU Hot Oil Belt replacement.
• Presented completed projects to refinery managers at the end of the summer.

Linden, NJ

• Fuels and lubricants research division of ExxonMobil and Shell.
• Researched the impact of sulfonic acid on the isomerization of PIBSA.
• Presented final research at final co-op student presentation at the end of the summer.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Chemical Engineering Practice

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: AIChE, Tau Beta Pi, Cross Country and Track Teams