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California, United States

California, United States

New York, NY, US

Supporting Synonym's Defense Industrial Base Consortium project, with a focus on investigating how biobased chemicals can most impactfully address needs in the DOD supply chain and exploration of partnership opportunities with technology owner companies.

Providing technical and business development support to startups, investors, incubators/accelerators, government funding agencies, and corporate research groups, in the areas of technology assessment, product-market fit, techno-economics, product carbon footprint analysis, financial analysis, customer discovery, and go-to-market strategy development.

Durham, North Carolina, US

Spearheaded customer engagement efforts to guide DMC lead product development, resulting in LOIs from 2 major customers representing >$40M in annual revenue, validating DMC’s value propositions for this product. Built detailed business cases for a wide range of DMC products, including multiple amino acids, polyols, organic acids, and terpenoids – including.

Golden, CO, US

Applied cell-free tools for microbial metabolic pathway engineering relevant to lignin utilization. Other focus areas included cell-free polymer precursor biosynthesis, a cell-free electrons-to-molecules approach, and an Energy I-Corps/customer discovery-driven assessment of products that could leverage NREL technology.

Washington, DC, US

Identified high-risk, high-reward energy technologies with transformative potential, through technical and economic analyses. Assisted in funding opportunity development and active program management.

Co-founded Gate Fuels Inc. in 2010, in order to further develop Bacillus platform for the conversion of cellulosic biomass to a variety of value-added chemicals, with the end goal of licensing technology to industrial partners. Co-founded Cell-Free Bioinnovations in 2012 to further develop a cell-free platform for value-added chemical production. Both.

Blacksburg, VA, US

As a graduate student I demonstrated high-yield production of hydrogen from biomass for the first time, through the use of an in vitro pathway of purified enzymes. My first study, which focused on the factors affecting biomass saccharification, compared cellulose solvent-based and ammonia-based pretreatments to show that high lignin removal is insufficient.

Washington, DC, US

Worked for the Crop Conversion Science and Engineering Research Unit. Performed experiements with barley hull: pretreated using Soaking in Aqueous Ammonia (SAA), digested to simple sugars with enzymes, and fermented to fuel and other value-added products.

Arlington, Virginia, US

Served with the 54th Engineer Battalion (Combat, Mechanized) in Bamberg, Germany and Ramadi, Iraq. As a Platoon Leader, found and destroyed 25 roadside bombs while conducting route clearance missions in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. As Company Executive Officer, supervised company maintenance program, which helped improve route clearance equipment operational.

Notre Dame, IN, US

Performed Monte Carlo simulations of the surface patterns of a catalytic reaction; developed a three-dimensional model and visualization method to effectively display the results.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioprocess Engineering

Bs, Chemical Engineering