I started my career working as a process engineer in the Automotive EV battery industry at a start-up plant in GA where I maintained the mixing process. It was a challenge balancing my time between the technical aspects of the process and the human nature of the operators. I understood that the key to having a smooth running process was to reduce as many points of human error as possible and implement clear easy to understand feedback from the process that could be easily understood by an operator during their first week on the job.

On the engineering side, we would use long term data records to regularly check for any changes within the process that may not have resulted in any observable changes to the product. If a quality issue arose with the product, we would rely heavily on these records to track down equipment issues or process abnormalities that were the root cause.

The next section of my career was sizing and recommending important features of industrial chemical storage equipment. This taught me about a broader set of chemical processes than EV battery materials as well as introduced me to the sales industry as a whole.

My experience at both companies gives me a unique skill set and perspective that I can use to improve the current chemical manufacturing industry. I find instrumentation to be one of the most interesting parts of chemical processes and one of the areas that has the most potential for innovation.