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Sugar Land, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Launched Acajú, and built the brand over the next few years, on nights and weekends, while working a full-time job. Participated in various farmer's markets and pop up markets. Supplied Acajú to various local cafes and small grocery stores in Houston.

Sugar Land, TX

• Provided technical support to Production. Headed root cause investigations for process failures, equipment failures, and quality issues.
• Led Root Cause Analysis on failures and implemented changes to improve processes and product quality.
• Drove improvements in safety, product quality, and equipment reliability for Production. Acted as a liaison between the Production department and the Material Control/ Logistics team to ensure production was on schedule.
• Executed capital projects from design stage to installation and training.
• Led project to digitize 500+ paper-based procedures, checklists and SOPs used in Production Plant using Parsable software. Worked with a global team to develop project goals and milestones. Trained team members and.
• During the company's spin-off, completed Gap Analysis on various incoming products to Plant in 2020/ 2021. Completed new product setups for incoming batches to the Sugar Land plant. Trained Production/ Operations to.

Round Rock, TX

• Interfaced with engineering, manufacturing and EQM to monitor, sustain and improve process and clean tools.
• Worked on tracking and improving contamination performance and pell yeild in clean area.
• Optimized Clean & Pell processes and implementing LEAN initiatives to improve production efficiency.
• Maintained and optimized dry and wet etch processes, troubleshot process/ production issues related to minimizing cycle times, improving product yield and reducing costs.
• Used statistical analysis tools for process control, quality and yield improvement. Troubleshot tools that are out of control for established SPC rules for process- and defect-related issues.

Lake Charles, Louisiana Area

• Worked with operations to identify and pursue optimization opportunities in Polypropylene (PP) production line.
• Provided support to operations for running PP unit with annual capacity of 500MM lbs, and maintaining rates at 60 klbs/hr.
• Provided technical support for day-to-day troubleshooting and operations.
• Collaborated with production, process and reliability groups to execute short and long term improvement projects in production line.Implemented projects to enhance product quality and increase plant profitability.
• Oversaw production of nine different PP product grades. Worked with operations, R&D, and quality analysis team to meet and exceed product quality targets.
• Worked with R&D, trials engineer, operations, and quality team to run and commercialize new pellet trials.

La Porte, Texas

Designed mathematical models to predict output parameters of plantdata in low density Polyethylene unit Used PlantTriage Control Loop Monitoring Software to diagnose and improve plant loop performance and health Worked on various reliability and production optimization projects to improve overall plant equipment efficiency and production in two different.

Improved quality check procedure in a mascara production line to reduce scrap and waste Designed and improved cleaning process for liquid foundation production line Led project to install new labeler for Panstik foundation packing line Led project to implement lean manufacturing techniques to reduce the changeover time in packing line

Worked on Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) under Dr. Allan J. Bard Researched replacements for platinum catalyst in fuel cells Learned various electrochemical techniques such as cyclic voltammetry

Worked on various optimization projects for the crystalline resin plant Led Global Star Element 16 and weekly operations meetings Assisted the Saudi BD trial

Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Roden Leadership Program, Society of Women Engineers, AIChE

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