1997-2002             U.C. Santa Barbara            Santa Barbara, CA                       GPA- 3.05

• BS Chemical Engineering with a Biochemical Engineering emphasis.

• Course work in separation, process design, reaction design, process control, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, materials, colloids and biomaterials, numerical analysis, technical writing, calculus, biochemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, physics.

• Laboratory experience in organic chemistry, physics, and electronics, including the use of gas chromatography, IR spectrum, NMR, and mass spectrometers.

• Designing, implementing, and analyzing data in laboratory experiments.

• Java, FORTRAN, Basic, Mathematica, Matlab

• Software and Hardware Installation

• Microsoft Office Suite

• Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, BeOS

Work:

Research Assistant: Professor Samir Mitragotri’s Laboratory. UCSB, CA. 2001-Current

Collaborating with Elizabeth Chambers to determine the viability of red blood cells as a transport medium for drug delivery.

General Employee: Barnes & Noble. Redwood City, CA. Summer of 1999

Assisted in the General Manager’s book return project, and provided customer service. Shipping and receiving work was also done.

Projects:

• Methane Liquefaction:  Determined an optimal process for methane liquefaction from a variety of self-designed processes.

• Flash Point Calculations:  Wrote a computer program that implemented a P-T flash calculation to calculate the optimal number of flash drums needed to obtain 95% purity nitromethane from an initial equimolar mixture of acetonitrile and nitromethane at constant temperature and pressure.

• Fluidized Bed Heat Transfer:  Determined a correlation between bed particle size and minimum fluidization velocity, and heat transfer coefficient.

• Compressibility Factors:  Measured the isothermal compressibility factors for He using the Burnett method, and determined the second virial coefficient using the data.

• Gas Absorption:  Determined the mass transfer coefficient as a function of gas and liquid flowrates from conductivity and absorption data of CO₂ in water .

• Fermentation:  Determined if this enzymatically catalyzed reaction confers with the predictions of the Michaelis-Menten model.

• Control Algorithm for a CSTR:  Created an algorithm to control feed-back and feed-forward control of variables in a CSTR.

• Bioreactor Design:  Designed a bioreactor system that produces hydrogen gas by photosynthesis using biochemical reaction engineering principles.

• Conceptual Design of a Chemical Plant: Determined the economic potentials of a butyl alkylation plant and an MTBE plant and created plant simulations using Hyprotech’s Hysys simulation program.