• Act as a technical resource for clients, channel partners, and account team to highlight Fortinet products, solutions, and architectures. • Advise as pre-sales technical expert to positively influence sales for potential customers and partners. • Deliver technical/sales presentations and demonstrating how a product will meet customer needs, budget, and provide operation improvements. • Coordinate and run proof-of-concepts required by customers, with the goal of shortening sales cycles and effectively highlight Fortinet capabilities and advantages over competitors. • Facilitated educational initiatives directed to Account Manager team targeted to maintain a wide breadth of knowledge about Fortinet’s solutions to support sales efforts. • Collaborate with Field Marketing teams to determine specific market needs in order to drive the appropriate activities that can positively impact Fortinet’s market perception and represent Fortinet in Field Marketing seminars. • Advise customers and internal team as SASE and ZTNA Solution Advisior, demonstrating a deep knowledge of Fortinet’s FortiSASE solution as well as a broader knowledge the SASE landscape and competitive products such as Palo Alto Prisma Access and Zscaler. • Consistently keep up with internal and external trainings in order to uphold the highest standard of product knowledge and be an expert resource for resellers, partners, distributors, and peers.

Driving successful endeavors in the fields of pharmaceutical production, lab automation, and culture initiatives. • Specialized in the development and optimization of cell culture bioprocesses for recombinant proteins and biologics for clinical trials, utilizing the design and execution of mammalian culture bioreactor experiments in lab-scale bioreactors.• Leading data analytics and statistical anlysis efforts for multi-scale efficiency outputs to allow for successful process optimization of clinical phase pharmaceutical processes.• Collaborating on integrating PharmaMV machine learning capabilities into research platform to utilize self-optimization and critical variable pinpointing abilities to free up scientists time for more important tasks • Planned and implemented automation efforts including script-writing for automated bioreactor systems and liquid handlers, automated data aggregation and analysis software, and novel automation technologies using capacitance-based feedback loops. • Demonstrated value within company culture by participating in initiatives to build better project teams by providing a more structured team environment where roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and contributed to a creative team building a better system to provide training colleagues while limiting interruption to primary responsibilities.

Gained valuable experience in sales, marketing, and prospecting, in a part-time summer and winter internship for a pharmacy benefit management consulting firm providing solutions to help reduce prescription medication costs.• Performed cold calls to Pharmacists at CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart in the St. Louis metro and Southern Illinois markets to promote the use of pharmaceutical discount cards to tackle skyrocketing healthcare and pharmacy costs.• Provided information on how plan sponsors and members can achieve greater savings with an advanced approach on clinical, contract negotiation, and cost management solutions.

Summer internship working under Chief Chemist for one of the largest treatability labs in the country, providing a unique service to the wastewater industry.• Performed analytics on wastewater treatment in-process samples and collected/analyzed data to report to field engineers.• Created bench-scale models to analyze the effects of operating conditions and supplemental feeds on microbial anaerobic digesters.• Utilized Excel databases to track trends and created reports for clients utilizing Word and Powerpoint.

Participated in an internship during summer and winter breaks working directly with R&D Specialist at a provider of pharmaceutical manufacturing and analytical services, which lead to rapid and successful outcomes.• Gained competence in the operation of a variety of equipment in the manufacturing process.• Acquired a leadership role with a small team of pharmaceutical operators to oversee day-to-day manufacturing operations. • Assisted R&D Specialist in special projects including reaction scale-up and improving process efficiency.• Gained proficiency in analytical instrumentation and techniques, including HPLC, GC, IR, and UV spectrometers.• Gained thorough understanding and ability to apply SOP, GMP, and GLP guidelines.

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