Education

Purdue University - West Lafayette, IN
B.S. in Chemical Engineering with an Honors Designation
Honors Project - "Synthetic Routes to Prepare MEL Zeolite Catalysts with Different Active Site Content and Arrangement"
Graduated May 2020

Relevant Coursework Beyond the Requirements of the BSChE
"Design, Control, and Optimization of Production Manufacturing Systems" (IE 579, Fall 2019)
"Manufacturing Process Engineering" (IE 570, Fall 2019)
"Economic Decision Making in Engineering" (IE 546, Spring 2020)

Work Experience

Relevant Publications
Horizons: Adding fire to e-fuels (Wood Mackenzie Flagship Thought Leadership Series, June 2024)
The Edge: Can direct air capture rise to the challenge? (Chief Analyst’s Thought Leadership Spotlight, Jan 2024)
Towards direct air capture at scale, a trilogy (Technology, economic, and strategy analysis for clients only, Nov 2024)

	CCUS Research Analyst at Wood Mackenzie | Houston, TX | August 2023 - Present
	At WoodMac, I analyze North American CCUS/CDR markets, policy, technology and economics. I perform asset-level valuations of individual CCUS projects to understand project costs across various CCUS/CDR technologies as well as how policy and carbon markets influence individual project revenues. I also lead our CDR technology research (direct air capture, BECCS, etc.) and have published numerous client- and public-facing long-form pieces based on this research.
	Optimization Engineer / Operations Engineer / Process Engineer at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company | Baytown, TX | June 2020 - July 2023
	At CPChem, I supported a world-scale ethylene cracker as an Optimization Engineer. In this role, I helped drive operations to acheive multiple consecutive production records by developing and communicating the unit's optimization strategy. I also commissioned LP Optimization models for 2 ethylene crackers. Before that, I worked as an Operations (Production) Engineer supporting 3 polyethylene production units and as a Process Engineer supporting an ethylene cracker. Some of my projects include developing predictive, mathematical (linear and nonlinear) models for distillation and furnace operation, engineering, planning and executing upgrades to major equipment (tanks, exchangers, pumps, etc.), and modifying plant safety systems to maintain regulatory compliance. I've also assisted in the execution of a total unit shutdown and maintenance outage at a polyethylene unit. During the 40-day turnaround, I was an engineering point-of-contact on nights and assisted in project execution, equipment inspection, and walking down systems for return-to-service.
	Process Engineering Intern at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company | Sweeny, TX | May - Aug 2019
	As an intern at CPChem, I researched, developed, and designed an installation plan to install a compressor water injection, modeled water adsorption profiles to improve desiccant bed performance, and modeled cooling tower performance to draw conclusions about the relative effectiveness of differentequipment installations.
	Process Engineering Co-op at LyondellBasell | La Porte, TX | Aug - Dec 2019
	At LYB, I developed and initiated 8 safety, optimization, and efficiency-related projects and collaborated with vendors and unit engineers to design a new loading mechanism and increase the efficiency of polyethylene product loading and transportation. I also worked on a safety driven capital project worth >$150k.
	R&D Chemical Engineering Intern at Honeywell UOP | McCook, IL | May - Aug 2019
	At UOP, I learned and operated 6 different catalyst manufacturing unit operations and contributed to the development of 5 new, viable catalyst recipes

Leadership Experience

American Institute of Chemical Engineers - Purdue Student Chapter | Aug 2016 - May 2020

In college, I was extremely involved with Purdue's AIChE student chapter from the moment I set foot on campus; this pushed me to learn things I never would have otherwise. I have served as Undergraduate Research Committee Member, Freshman Representative, Treasurer, Conference Technical Coordinator, and External Vice President, expanding each position's role as I fulfilled it. I spearheaded a donation campaign to raise >$20k as External VP (Purdue AIChE record), gave a talk at the Annual Student conference in 2019, managed >$30k in funds as treasurer, completely upgraded our bookkeeping, planned our chapter's trip to the 2017 Annual Student Conference, and implented incentives to boost attendance by ~30%. Check out some of my work below!

Designed our 2018 AIChE regional student conference logo from scratch and learned HTML and Android/iOS app development to design applications for use during the regional student conference