Parth Prashar Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

Pratteln, Basel-Country, CH

Pratteln, Basel-Country, CH

• Managing team of process and automation engineers with goals to design, construct and operate high-throughput reactors for testing of emissions and multiple other catalysts

Pratteln, Basel-Country, CH

• Successfully led Project-Management, design, ground-up builds and validation of a Bench-Scale Fluidized Bed reactor and a high-temperature Multi-Tube Aging Reactor
• Rapid prototyping and design to manufacture of functional parts for reactors in SOLIDWORKS
• Software development in Python and C# for data analysis, PLC programming and automation
• Trained Machine Learning models to improve process optimization for scale-up
• Characterization of reaction products from fixed-bed reactors using GC, BET, XRD, Microscopy
• Upgrade and management of site gas safety, building management and networking systems

Menlo Park, California, US

• Drafted, budgeted and scoped a collaborative agreement between Clariant and Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory for construction of custom beam-line equipment
• Independently designed in-situ reactor cell for on-line XAS at Stanford’s Synchrotron Particle Accelerator facility

• Managed project to build structural and plumbing facilities on camp site of a non-profit
• Led team with architects and construction facilitators on design
• Produced and edited drawings and design of structure of a hot shower building on the site
• Managed budgeting of the facility and predicted potential capital expenditure
• Worked with a team of alumni on start-up of networking system for alumni volunteers

Pleasanton, California, US

• Involved in the custom design of parts for large biologics robots to automate lab work
• Manually ran experiments in automation lab to optimize thin film coating process as required by client and examined the ability of such processes to be automated
• Helped design custom modules for robots to automate the process
• Tested material compatibility and selected materials to get ideally sized, repeatable thin films
• Interfaced directly with customer to develop specification and requirements of automated process
• Maintained automation lab workflow robots in Research and Development lab and Demo labs

Los Angeles, CA, US

Oversaw a team of students helping run an organization of 500 volunteers taking over 1500 children from underserved areas in Los Angeles to a summer camp. Organized multiple activities and fundraising events for the non-profit and managed student body.

Carried out clinical research on drugs for patients with kidney disease, screened patients, spearheaded clinic appointments with patients and ran lab tests on patient samples and observed change in kidney health based on results

Helped install large medical devices including CT Machines and MRIs in hospitals throughout Kenya and analyzed control system diagrams to diagnose and service malfunctions in these machines

Conducted research looking for rapid and long-term biomarker detectors and ran multiple assays to test accuracy of biomarker detection for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering