Biography

Served as the Industrial Collaboration Director and an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment Arizona State University. Demonstrated experience coordinating projects that involve integration of multiple disciplines, including geochemistry and microbiology and industry/academia collaboration. Experience includes identifying project partnership opportunities and developing project collaborations with industry and procured funding for those projects. Co-inventor of six U.S. patents for soil stabilization technologies that have applications in geotechnical and environmental engineering. Expertise in biogeotechnics with a focus on biogeochemistry. Worked on projects for remediation of mining-and agriculturally- impacted waters and soils and on ground improvement. Engaged in projects involving induced mineral precipitation, biological transformations, applied biopolymers, and the beneficial reuse of organic and inorganic waste materials such as plant biomass, urine and steel slag. Collaboration experience bolstered by previous work as geoenvironmental engineer for a leading global engineering/architecture design firm and nearly 10 years of small business experience.