Making plant-based lifestyles easy, delicious and accessible.

Teach food product development principles and advise on research projects for Alternative Meat Program.

- Developed product improvement plan for plant-based shrimp alternative - Identified formulation and process development opportunities for plant-based seafood alternatives

- Built and managed high performing product development team of formulation scientists and process engineers. First product development hire at Ripple. Led efforts to build R&D capabilities by managing external innovation partners, leveraging supplier networks, in-house training and hiring a team of developers. - Led product innovation at Ripple through development of high protein plant-based products such as vegan milk, half and half and yogurt. Launched 5 skus of first pea protein based greek style yogurt. Also, launched first coffee stable, high protein, plant-based half and half and shelf stable pea based milk in tetra pak for various UHT processes.

• Develop new food products through full development cycle from benchtop formulation to market. • Act as technical lead on multifunctional teams including Consumer Insights, Marketing, Sales and Product Supply• Led cross-functional technical project team including Process, Packaging and Insights through early stage discovery work on Ranch improvement efforts • Designed and led discovery project on dressing emulsion from a colloidal perspective. Built fundamental understanding of emulsion microstructure, functionality and interactions of formula ingredients, and sensitivity to process parameters. Identified unique product improvement and cost saving opportunities. • Developed statistical model to relate salad dressing texture parameters (rheology, particle size, hydrocolloid level) to expressed flavor attributes from descriptive analysis testing • Represented R&D on multifunctional teams including Consumer Insights, Marketing, Sales and Product Supply• Act as Liquid Formulation Pillar specialist across Clorox R&D to coach and consult on technical product development challenges • Co-developed descriptive analysis method for Ranch dressing with User Insights group to build internal sensory capabilities

•Developed polymer grafted nanoparticles that created emulsions at extremely low particle concentrations •Created thermally responsive and highly efficient Pickering emulsions using silica nanoparticles grafted with polymer chains of various architectures and compositions •Correlated emulsification properties with nanoparticle interfacial tension lowering behavior and hydrodynamic size•Designed experimental plan to test effects of ionic strength, solvent quality, pH and temperature corresponding to various conditions above and below the polymer cloud point on emulsification•Characterized emulsion droplet size distribution by microscopic analysis and flow particle image analyzer •Measured the rheological properties of emulsions created at various conditions•Tested hysteretic co-adsorption of polymer/surfactant mixtures on both hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces using ellipsometry and dual polarization interferometry

•Measured density of colloidal suspensions of silica nanoparticles, paracetamol and ascorbic acid to create highly porous pharmaceutical tablets by Sol-Gel process•Performed differential scanning calorimetry measurements to obtain crystallization temperature of colloidal suspensions

• Conducted crystallization study for development of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API)• Determined solubility and metastable limits as a function of temperature using Multimax IR system• Made key contribution to process knowledge resulting in changes to the API process design• Obtained concentration measurements from HPLC using PLS algorithm• Studied particle size distribution using online FBRM measurement during crystallization• Conducted polymorph conversion study using Raman spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction, and DSC