Coached and developed a team of 4-9 product, process, and packaging scientists and engineers to deliver innovation, cost-savings, and ensure day-to-day success of laundry and disinfecting wipes business. Represent R&D on cross-functional leadership teams to enable and develop a healthy piepeline to support $500M+ annually in salesLead sustainable product improvements to reduce virgin plastic and paper use annually.Commericalize and launch new platform of Laundry… Show more Coached and developed a team of 4-9 product, process, and packaging scientists and engineers to deliver innovation, cost-savings, and ensure day-to-day success of laundry and disinfecting wipes business. Represent R&D on cross-functional leadership teams to enable and develop a healthy piepeline to support $500M+ annually in salesLead sustainable product improvements to reduce virgin plastic and paper use annually.Commericalize and launch new platform of Laundry SanitizersTranslate technological insights and combine with marketing and consumer insights to bring to market new products and platforms under the Clorox equity Show less

• Cross-functional lead representing R&D to enable numerous consumer-driven innovations.• Product Development responsible for formulation, claims development, IP strategy, and EPA compliance for existing portfolio of wipes. • Campus recruiting lead to evaluate and recruit new talent for R&D organization (Ph.D. and B.S.)• Program Leader Science Education responsible for coaching and developing internal team leaders and developing partnership with community organizations.

Responsible for identifying and evaluating technologies to support business growth across a variety of consumer products including Charcoal, Cat Litter, Cleaning, Healthcare and Personal Care.

Advisor: Professor Jacqueline K. BartonThesis: The Role of DNA Charge Transport in DNA Repair• Identified and collaborated with external experts in DNA repair to develop new model of DNA repair protein communication (2 peer-reviewed manuscripts; 3 poster presentations)• Led Committee for the national American Chemical Society responsible for obtaining funding ($30K), identifying, and securing speakers (2 Nobel Laureates), and marketing annual seminar at national meeting• Founder… Show more Advisor: Professor Jacqueline K. BartonThesis: The Role of DNA Charge Transport in DNA Repair• Identified and collaborated with external experts in DNA repair to develop new model of DNA repair protein communication (2 peer-reviewed manuscripts; 3 poster presentations)• Led Committee for the national American Chemical Society responsible for obtaining funding ($30K), identifying, and securing speakers (2 Nobel Laureates), and marketing annual seminar at national meeting• Founder of department community-building committee to address dept. issues ($30K funding); led team of 8 graduate students to develop programs in the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division to improve student life Show less

Advisor: Professor Scott K. SilvermanThesis: Deoxyribozymes that catalyze the attachment of DNA to nucleic acids via a 2´, 5´ branch• John C. Bailar Award for Best Senior Research Thesis/Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis• Designed experiments and identified novel nucleic acid catalysts for the ligation of DNAs to form comb-branched substrates (2 peer-reviewed manuscripts; 2 poster presentations)

• Responsible for leading a 20-person discussion section in problem-based learning• Designed weekly problem sets and guided students in understanding challenging chemistry concepts• Named to UIUC list of teachers related excellent

• Student Director for Reaching and Educating America's Chemists of Tomorrow (REACT)• Responsible for 12-member board that coordinated over 500+ volunteers serving over 3,500 local citizens each semester• Oversaw the creation of new programs leading to the two-fold expansion of the program• Oversaw the rebranding and reorganization of the program to achieve 50% operational efficiency.• Team leader for developing an efficient html-based system for scheduling volunteers

Advisor: Professor Richard B. Silverman• Center for Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology Undergraduate Research Fellowship• Synthetic endeavors in understanding the first step of Nitric Oxide Synthase production