• Gender: Female
• Age: 35
• Designation: Executive
• Highest Education Level: Masters - Degree
• Preferred Country: India
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 12.5 Year(s)

Education

M.Sc Materials Science and Engineering From Stony Brook University, New York, U.S.A. in 2011 with G.P.A: 3.6/4.0

B.E. Chemical Engineering From Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai
University in 2010 with 65.3%

Skill Sets

C, C++, Matlab
Microsoft Office applications
Microsoft Visio
ChemCAD

Strong chemical and materials engineering background, problem solving and analytical skills
Demonstrated ability to develop and implement technical solutions
Proficient in managing multiple priorities, projects and deadlines
Ability to work individually and as a part of the team

Additional Courses on Coursera:
Organic Solar Cells (Theory and Practice) - Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Graphene and 2-dimensional Materials – University of Manchester

Work Experience

Business Development Executive
Since May 2014
Company Profile: A Institute of Educational Counselling.

Research Officer
May 2013 to April 2014
Company Profile: Manufacturing a vast range of finest quality Quartz Lumps and Roasted Bentonite Granules .
Job Profile:
I studied the characteristics of Kaolinite and its applications, mainly in Paints and Paper
Successfully completed a Project involving the development of hydrophobic kaolinite for the rubber industry
I was also working on a project involving Metakaolin and its application in Concrete technology
I later joined a project involving heavy metals reduction in industrial effluents using modified bentonite

Junior Research Fellow
Aug 2012 to Mar 2013
Company Name: Indian Institute of Technology
Job Profile:
Project: Silver nano particles impregnation in Activated Carbon for water purification
Synthesizing and impregnating silver nano particles in porous activated carbon for water purification applications
Silver leeching studies.
Batch as well as Flow or Packed column tests. It also involved culturing E. coli bacteria for plate testing the impregnating carbon for bacteria killing efficiency
Synthesized Mesoporous Silica and impregnated it with titania for dye degradation applications
Job Profile:

Project Assistant
June 2012 to July 2012
Company Name: Shah-Schulmann Centre 
Job Profile:
Project: “Hi-Shine Ink Project”
Study, testing and enhancing the rheological properties of the ink provided by the company. Mainly dripping and grouping characteristics
Project on doping and coating of Magnesia nano particles onto Titania
I am also a technical consultant for a water filter company called Aquagenicsa secondary filtration product development company, based in Bangalore.

Instrument Handling Skills
Nano fibre Electro spinning Equipment-Tentiometer (Contact angle measurement)
X-Ray Diffraction Equipment-Fourier Transform Infra Red Spectrometer
Dynamic Light Scattering Equipment and Zeta Potential measurement - Particle Size Analyzers (Sedigraph and Malvern)
Thin Film Spin Casting Equipment - Thermal Gravimetric Analyzer
Ellipsometer - Plasma surface modifier
UV Spectrometer - Porosimeter

Academic Projects and Publications:
The Research Foundation of State University of New York.
Research Assistant at the Center for Nano Sensor Development (Stony Brook University, NY)
Study of photo catalytic properties of Titania (Titanium Dioxide)
Integration of titania with polymer using the sol gel synthesis method
Fabrication of Photo catalytic nano fibers using Electrospinning process

Green Process for Spin Coating polymer thin films.(Stony Brook University, NY)
It involved spin casting SEBS (Styrene-ethylene-butadiene-styrene) onto a chemically treated silicon substrate
The spin casted layer was then washed several times using toluene to reduce it to an even 5 nm thick Dead layer
The Dead layer has several bio-medical and microelectronic applications

Undergraduate Thesis Project : Manufacture of Cinnamaldehyde
Literature survey of properties, market dynamics, applications and manufacturing processes for the cinnamaldehyde
Mass and material balance calculations, Process Economics
Process Flow and Instrumentation Diagram and pertaining equipment and vessels design.

Water Purification using Nanotechnology presented in the INDA-APDA Conference on Desalination and Water purification (Indacon 2010), held at Chennai, India March 2010. Published in French Journal, IJND

Extra-Curricular:
Creative head for Student Chapter of IICHE (D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering) 2008-2009
Member of SUNY, Stony Brook IGSA and Dance troupe SBU Thilland
Attended a certification workshop for “ToEFLiBT Test training” by Propell

Future Goals

To pursue a course which combines theoretical and practical concepts of project management to be applied in the domain of Sustainable Energy sector.