20+ years of experience managing multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural research laboratories. Brings expertise in collaborations between national labs, universities, and industry. Offers deep and diverse knowledge of chemical processes, laboratory techniques, and safety standards. Driven to move the field forward through R&D innovation; over the last 6 years have focused on developing R&D partnerships both internally and externally to drive company success. As a R&D leader, I am the team expert in a wide variety of analytical and experimental techniques. I have significant experience critically analyzing experimental data with an eye toward determining the strengths and drawbacks of each technique or approach. I routinely improve synthetic and analytical strategies to make and characterize organic, organometallic, or materials targets.An innovative science advocate, I successfully communicate advanced technical concepts to laypersons, experts and everyone in between. I routinely design and implement innovative experimental approaches designed to answer a variety of scientific and technical challenges. I have extensive expertise in writing technical documents such as collaborative manuscripts and proposals, as demonstrated by my over 30 peer reviewed scientific publications.