Experience

• UC Irvine

  Lecturer

  I taught the second quarter of organic chemistry and the first quarter of organic chemistry lab.
  
  My responsibilities included: Writing and holding lectures, writing problem sets, midterms, and a final, maintaining an on-line forum for students to ask questions, holding office hours, setting up a course website and creating a syllabus, managing a grade book and assigning final grades, and managing teaching assistants.

• UC Irvine

  Ph.D. Candidate

  Advisor: Scott D. Rychnovsky
  (1) Synthesized the natural product cyanolide A and analogues for evaluation
  of molluscicide activity by a collaborative marine biomedical laboratory
  (2) Developed a methodology to synthesize highly substituted tetrahydropyranones
  via a silyl enol Prins cyclization
  (3) Developed a methodlogy to synthesize indolizidine and quinolizidine
  via a intramolecular cyano-azadiene Diels–Alder reaction
  

• Rockford University

  Assistant Professor of Chemistry

  Gidget worked at Rockford University as a Assistant Professor of Chemistry

• The Scripps Research Institute

  Undergraduate Researcher

  Advisor: K.C. Nicolaou
  Carried out a multi-gram, multistep synthesis of a key building block towards synthesizing
  natural products, lomaiviticins A and B