Providing a strategic link between 4 business lines and the Silicones Technology Platform. Main areas of focus include product costing / optimal sourcing, 10 year capacity loading, and asset capabilities / expansions. Additionally, I am a Toll Manufacturing project manager, Accelerator, Evonik Explorer, and Citizen Developer. Co-Founder of the Allentown D&I Committee and the New Product Fit Assessment Process. Member of the groW advocacy committee, Common Grounds core team, and the Allentown SaE committee.

• Stepped up to a stronger leadership and cost accountability role during the plant manager transition, including cost compensation and budgeting of $14.5MM in site costs• Budgeted, initiated, and approved Capital projects within the allocated site budget of $1.8MM for the year despite significant unforeseen asset preservation requirements• Lead process improvement amounting to greater than $6MM in CM1 and $1MM in avoided tolling of product on a sold-out asset

• Compare assets across a global supply chain for the optimal production of intermediates based on raw material costs, import challenges, capacity, and available technology• Build a tool which audits monthly raw material yield against target yield and historical performance to determine improvement opportunities and troubleshoot inefficiencies• Build a process rate analysis tool that determines if process changes deliver statistically significant improvements to rate and process control• Manage the integration of a new supplier for a raw material savings of $800MM while managing risks to supply and quality• Manage the REACH restraints and custom manufacturing of a product to guarantee security of supply

• Audit the calculations and correct device specifications for 51 level switches, to meet Air Products standards and process requirements, prior to purchase• Interface with vendors, process engineers, and mechanical engineers to re-specify 2 PSVs which originally failed inlet losses allowed by API (American Petroleum Institute) standards• Create the first complete set of As-Designed Utilities PFDs which consistently match existing PFDs• Develop the strategy, equations, and validation tool for calculating tank inventory via the control system• Evaluate an existing rail car washing system for future use and specify necessary equipment and process changes• Calculate release rates for alternative case scenarios identified by process safety in the Risk Management Program• Edit procedures for DHR (Design Hazard Review) compliance and improved clarity• Design a bag to cartridge filter conversion housing to meet higher quality standards on a product drumming line

Batch Process Controls Engineer: Performance Materials Division - Chemical Plant• Mastered the basics of Siemens PCS7-V6 and V8.1, over the course of one month, in order to provide daily batch controls support to production and operations personnel• Facilitate alarm management to reduce nuisance alarms, improve system safety, and reduce lost time• Provide support during new campaigns to ensure smooth operation without lost time; such as new interlocks and recipe modifications• Manage critical interlock validation and new instrumentation validation• Continual improvement of plant operation interface for heightened usability, including the implementation of operator training graphics• Improve and develop resources for production engineers for the development and troubleshooting of batch recipes • Develop commissioning qualification and testing protocol for the Pasadena, TX PMD plant controls system• Develop and oversee the building of process controls interface for a chemical plant start-up, through collaboration with contractors, operators, production engineers, plant process engineers, and controls engineers alike. • Create and enforce the guidelines by which the controls interface will be built and maintained over the life of the plant, using industry standards and best practices as a baseline.

Lead, schedule, manage, and train forty employees, servicing 300 customers dailyIn charge of hiring and improving efficiencyCollaborate with professional dining staff to address staff efficiency and dining hall operation

Teaching Assistant for Mass and Energy Balances.

• Researched the compatibility of malodor control technology with Lysol® all-purpose cleaners• Liaised with suppliers and cross-departmentally while determining new viable technology• Developed a successful formula which delivered long-lasting odor control and was compatible in the base cleaner range• Started a project which is continuing development towards market entry

Research in Plant Breeding and Genetics with Dr. Julie Hansen on the Forage ProjectSelected by Dr. Hansen as sole undergraduate student to join Dr. Jean-Luc Jannink’s graduate research teamWorked collaboratively and independently with graduate students and professional staffReceived positive feedback regarding leadership abilities, quality of work, and work ethic from all supervisors

Field Engineer in Construction Materials Testing: operating a concrete break machine, performing lab testing on soils and asphalt, and writing lab and field reportsDisplayed ability and confidence to perform both technical and administrative dutiesSuccessfully assembled engineering consulting proposals, within days of beginning work