Account Management of 5 sporting goods buying groups, 130+ domestic accounts, and 35+ international water park accounts. •Networking by attending business meetings, trade shows, and other industry events to meet with customers and discuss their evolving needs.•Develop and implement new sales initiatives, strategies, and programs to capture new customers•Understand each customer's status, carefully tracking active opportunities and appropriately prioritizing more important, strategic deals•Effectively engage with senior leadership to support their needs, provide status reports, and strive to be a true asset on a high-performance sales team•Manage international projects from beginning to end; ensuring that products are manufactured properly, delivered on time, and within budget.

Worked closely with the sales manager to execute all sales endeavors •Traveled to and support onsite execution and management of key events, including show set-up and take-down•Demonstrated products and services to customers while answering any questions •Fielded sales calls for outside representatives as well as any potential follow up from those calls•Resolved order and inventory problems by investigating data and history and identifying alternate means for filling orders •Maintained customer information by setting up new accounts and obtaining needed information such as credit applications

Contractor on assignment within Core R&D at the Dow Chemical Company with primary responsibilities to partner with principal investigators to plan experiments, obtain and document quality data and maintain state of the art equipment in a broad range of applications.Microbiological Research•Designed biochemical screening methods for biofilm formation and food safety testing that allowed for efficient screening and formulation development for new product development within•Lead experimental work which required creation of SOPs, documentation and compiling of results using Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), and communicating reports to cross functional team members and stakeholders•Led the establishment of a Biosafety Level 2 Laboratory needed for experimentation High Throughput Research•Managed multi-user high throughput lab equipment by organizing safety training for over 20 employees and performing maintenance to assist the progress of all research projects in the high throughput research group•Improved efficiency of specific high throughput projects through technical expertise in high throughput formulating, coating, and characterization•Organized high throughput projects by scheduling personnel to execute formulation, coating, and application screening using Good Laboratory Practices•Supported the creation of the Presidential Green Chemistry Award winning architectural paint Rheology•Supported rheological analysis for gypsum paste, cement, and oil transportation formulation development

Lipid Based Drug Delivery Laboratory Developed and characterized an intravenous phospholipid-based nanomedicine containing carbamazepine for the treatment of epilepsy.• Mastered several biopharmaceutical techniques such as HPLC, dynamic light scattering, UV-Vis, viscometry, and fluorescence.

Michigan Technological University Biotech Research Center Supported the transgenic manipulation of traits important to growth and development of aspen through DNA/RNA extraction, PCR amplification, and tissue cultures of micropropagated aspen hybrids. • Instructed NSF Plant Genome Summer Youth Program