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Oakland, California, United States

United States

Pug Rescue of Korea is a 501 c3 organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of unwanted and neglected pugs in South Korea. We find them forever homes in South Korea, or we fly them to the U.S. to their new families. As a board member, my primary responsibilities are around fundraising, relationship development with other rescue organizations, event photography and raising awareness around our organization's mission.

San Diego, California, United States

As the Nutrition Product Development Manager at Genomatica, I managed the product development process for Avela R-1,3-Butanediol, a functional ingredient (an exogenous ketone) for foods, beverages and nutraceuticals.Business Development: Reporting to the SVP, Specialty Chemicals, led the successful launch of Avela™ (R)-1,3-Butanediol functional food and nutraceutical ingredient. Launched Avela sampling program, generating a robust sales pipeline with 300+ leads and an accessible volume of 300MT in Year 1. Developed Avela global expansion strategy, demonstrating the potential for Avela to tap into the $530MM international keto market. As the nutrition subject matter expert, served as the primary customer-facing point of contact for product-related inquiries, excelling at building relationships and forecasting volume through proactive outreach.Clinical Trial Expertise: Executed a pivotal in-vivo clinical trial (NCT05384106) in collaboration with external partners to substantiate the efficacy and tolerability of Avela.Key Opinion Leader (KOL) Collaboration: Negotiated the first Avela academic partnership with The Buck Institute for Research on Aging and The Ohio State University in support of clinical trial NCT05501366.Product Development: Formulated two novel Avela functional beverage prototypes in collaboration with external partners.Marketing: Responsible for developing product claims matrix best practices and all public-facing scientific communication copywriting for Avela (website, PR statements, product dossier, etc.) based on extensive literature reviews and marketing intelligence research.

Oakland, California, United States

Leadership: Scaled a comprehensive training vision across a team of 3 direct reports, creating, expediting and deploying novel VMS content launch on virtual platforms (Expert Voice, INFRA), strengthening key account relationships (Walmart, Target, Krogers, Costco, Sprouts, independents) during COVID-19 travel restrictions.Sales: As the VMS SME, served as the primary customer-facing point of contact for product-related inquiries and training requests, translating product science into compelling consumer communication via storytelling/claims/demos.Scientific Communications: Defined robust scientific positions relevant to the VMS business/products. Working closely with R&D, Marketing, Field Sales, and Legal teams, translated science into product customer-facing scientific communication.

San Francisco Bay Area

Customer Engagement: As the Renew Life® gut microbiome and cleanse SME, overhauled and created customer-facing training modules for Renew Life, resulting in significantly increased customer engagement across Natural, Food/Drug/Mass (FDM), and Club channels. Hosted successful in-person and virtual education and training events for key accounts.

Pleasanton, Ca

As a cleaning/oxidative chemistry SME, I played a pivotal role in driving the adoption of new product innovations. Led the product development and launch of Clorox Performance Bleach, delivering stronger claims, compelling demo development, and $6MM in annual cost savings.• R&D Cleaning Domain expert - complete portfolio cleaning brands/products.• Thought leader for emerging platforms in Cleaning, Laundry and Healthcare.• Technical lead on commercialization projects – authoring project charters, technical team lead, freedom to operate analysis with legal, product formulation, testing, timeline synthesis and management.• Co-developer of Clorox® Liquid Bleach with Cloromax™ Technology – patent awarded in 2015.• Developed corporate oxidative chemistry (R&D) and cross-functional Cleaning/Laundry training curricula

Fdn-P - Student, Holistic Health

Phd, Bioinorganic Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Kovacs Group, Bioinorganic Chemistry; American Chemical SocietySynthetic chemist, organic/inorganic synthesis..

B.S., Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Organometallic chemist/reaction mechanism-kinetics - Abu-Omar group