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Austin, Texas, United States

Novagard is an innovative and woman owned manufacturer of engineered UV cure silicones with industry leading cure times, as quick as 5s, to enable high throughput for the Automotive, Lighting, Energy, and Medical on-body electrical component manufacturing. Our products provide extraordinary protection against shock, vibration, and dust as well as robust.

Austin, Texas, United States

Provided colorants and brighteners to key accounts within the industrial and consumer cleaning products industry.

Austin, Texas, United States

Providing high purity phenolic specialty resins with excellent flame, smoke, and toxicity properties for the composites and electronics industry. Applications include composites for aerospace and transit interiors as well as copper clad laminates (CCLs), photo resists for printed circuit boards (PCBs), and printing plates. Our specialized products have low.

Austin, Texas Area

• In a hybrid role to a Market Segment Manager. Responsible for monitoring market trends, developing strategies to respond, and managing projects that help our business anticipate customer needs including:
• Manage our social media presence and guide our digital strategy including on-boarding/training/exciting our team about digitalization
• Market and trend analysis to monitor and evaluate opportunities. One example, label trends and needs especially in the beverage market
• Currently validating a new market opportunity (resulting from a previous analysis) including initial voice of customer and testing, business case proposals, multiple small scale pilots, as well as creation of.

Charlotte, North Carolina

• Responsible for 49 key accounts in Virginia and the Carolinas generating in $10.8M in NES
• Initiated street-fight to save $1.3M at largest customer: Presented site level offer to generate interest at both site and corporate levels while carefully managing messaging and relationships amid production delays.
• Tackled a large multi-site customer complaint by providing on-site technical support to keep production running while coordinating investigation and messaging with off-site technical and account management teams
• Leveraged DiSC training and strong relationships to grow territory including gaining business at prominent competitive strong hold which is expected to provide access to other sites and potential business within the.
• Brainstormed keys to success for Key Account Sales focusing on aligned strategy, consistent customer/team experience, and mobility which resulted in the creation and active use of Yammer to share best practices, ideas.

Bridgewater, NJ

• Responsible for two distributors delivering growth through proactive pricing and pipeline management
• Technically supported ~90 NA distribution partners across hot melt, water based, and reactive technology platforms
• Presented to senior management on new ways to motivate and incentivize sales professionals via engaging incentive plans
• Executed new product launch in North America along with webinar covering market, products, and application
• Coordinated sampling blitz to build confidence and overcome minimum batch size for low volume promote products
• Redesigned marketing and training material for promote products to assist partners in self-service and product selection

Bridgewater, NJ

• Investigated Anheuser-Busch WB labeling to understand adhesive use and performance to reduce complaints
• Built a business case to consolidate the Distribution product line using voice of customer as well as financial and technical metrics leading to the identification of 68 products with a negative gross profit and.
• Proactively implemented and trained others on new tools such as OneNote as a resource for recording and sharing information such a new hire resource notebook

Working under Dr. Vladimir Tsukruk-Developing techniques to measure submicron conductivity of graphene metal interconnects for next generation circuitry-Analyzed each step of the CVD graphene transfer procedure resulting in less wrinkles and damage for optimal circuitry-Created ultrathin responsive films and Janus particles at Wright Patterson AFB using.

-Greatly increased both size and order of porous alumina membranes through modification of annodization process-Assembled and characterized bi-metallic nano-structures for SERS detection of low concentration chemicals-Examined methods of nano-metal growth, deposition, and infiltration for better control of size and dispersion-Preformed limit of detection.

-Identified core qualities of brothers to create a chapter “brand”, leading to the second largest pledge class on campus-Maintained $180,000 itemized budget, increased collection of funds, implemented methodical system, paid fraternity bills, and managed fraternity bank establishing a positive cash flow and paying off housing debts-Executed a $17,000 rush.

Master Of Science (Ms), Material Science And Engineering, 3.53

Bachelors Of Science (B.S.), Polymer And Fiber Engineering, 3.52

Activities and Societies: Theta Chi Fraternity, Phi Psi Textile Fraternity, Tech Tour Guides, Connect with Tech Recruitment Program.