Product Engineer

Accenture - Industry X

Embedded with Meta Reality Labs building automated software and hardware infrastructure.

Chief Engineer

Voxa Inc.

Engineer at a firm involved in rapid hardware product development.

Director of Education

HiveBio

Lead a team of volunteers and biology enthusiasts to develop community biology workshops in a DIY bio-hackerspace.

Senior Research Analyst

Invention Evaluator

Analysis of technology, IP, and market strength of inventions for potential commercialization.

Rapid prototype development for assessment of commercialization potential.

Institutional and Research Career Development Award Post-doctoral Fellow

University of Kansas

Investigated the molecular pathways regulating 5-HT receptor activity with a goal of developing novel pharmacological targets for treatment of mental illness.

Graduate Student Researcher

University of Michigan

As a neuroscience graduate student I...

• Investigated the relationship between early adverse experiences and long-term changes behavior & neuronal gene expression.
• Extensive behavioral phenotyping of a tryptophan hydroxylase 2 knockdown mouse line.
• Developed a novel tissue extraction method using common laboratory reagents, improving specificity and speed while preserving sample integrity and cutting costs.
• In an environment of limited funding, developed or reverse-engineered reagents and procedures from commercial research kits.

Graduate Student Instructor

University of Michigan

5 years of experience teaching topics spanning across the fields of Psychology and Biology.

• Courses included Introduction to Neuropsychology, Psychology, Biopsychology, Neurobiology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Lab.
• Responsibilities included leading discussion, synthesizing new material, lectures, writing and grading exams, and general administration.
• Improved section grades by 4% above course average using blogging, web screencasts, and facebook groups to increase out-of-classroom interactivity and group feedback.
• Developed lab modules for open-source hardware as a low-cost approach to science.