Resume

• 2019

  Third Round Analytics Capital

  University of Texas at Austin

  El Paso Community College

  Third Round Analytics Capital (TRAC) is a quant venture capital firm that uses proprietary technology to identify and invest in future unicorns and other hypergrowth startups (defined as startups that exit for greater than $250 million and return 5X invested capital). TRAC generally invests in the 3rd round of targeted startups.\n\nIn 2015

  DaaS Analytics (DaaS

  the predecessor to TRAC) was founded to provide clients with a quantitative approach to identify top early-stage startup deal flow sources from among thousands of accelerators and investors. DaaS's efforts evolved into algorithms that could identify Hypergrowth Companies.\n\nDeveloped over a 4-year period by analyzing tens of thousands of startups and investors

  TRAC's algorithms would have identified 75% of last decade's Unicorns years before they were valued above $1billion. \n\nIf you are an early stage investor who has invested in one or more unicorns

  you may qualify to join the TRAC Community. Limited to 100 members

  Community members gain access to TRAC technology

  deal flow and can earn a share of TRAC's carry.

  Third Round Analytics Capital

  The University of Texas at Austin

  Synthesized and characterized enzyme-containing polymer films

  microparticles

  and nanoparticles for the intelligently triggered release of an encapsulated drug. Specifically

  glucose oxidase was used to trigger the swelling of a cationic hydrogel system for the controlled release of insulin in the presence of high glucose levels.

  Graduate Research Assistant

  Chemical Engineering

  Austin

  Texas Area

  Concerts

  sports

  event photography

  and portraits.

  MarekPhotography

  El Paso Community College

  El Paso

  Texas Area

  Taught first and second year engineering courses

  including Programming (C/C++)

  CAD (AutoCAD

  Inventor)

  Introduction to Electrical Engineering

  Electromechanical Systems

  Introduction to Thermofluids

  Engineering Economy

  Dynamics.

  Engineering Instructor

  Biomedical Engineering

  Teach laboratory courses to first-year and third-year biomedical engineering students; topics include the theory and use of: programming and robotics

  drug delivery

  circuit design and troubleshooting

  acquisition and analysis of biopotentials

  SolidWorks modeling

  mammalian cell culture

  mechanical properties and testing of materials

  medical imaging

  transport in hemodialysis

  Design of Experiment

  and statistical analysis of results

  Lecturer

  University of Texas at Austin

• 2015

  Blue Lizard Climbing and Yoga

  LLC

  MarekPhotography

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  We provide bouldering

  yoga

  hiking

  pictograph

  and photography tours at Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site.

  Blue Lizard Climbing and Yoga

  LLC

  Postdoctoral Fellow

  Pharmaceutics

  Pulmonary drug delivery; investigated the origins of adhesive/cohesive forces between DPI carrier

  drug

  and inhaler.\n\nResearched the cause of batch-to-batch variability in inhalation-grade lactose for dry powder inhalers. Pre-compressing lactose significantly decreased this variability.\n\nDetermined the effect of surface chemistry

  roughness

  and energy on the adhesion of engineered particles to surfaces using the colloid probe AFM technique\n

  University of Texas at Austin

  Undergraduate Research

  Organic Chemistry

  Synthesized di- and tetrasubstituted calix[4]arene derivatives

  which dimerize in polar protic solvent

  for use in drug delivery

  phase transfer

  and catalysis.\n\nWorked towards the total synthesis of the natural product (-)-dihydroguaiaretic acid and its analog as potential cancer drugs.\n

  Georgia Institute of Technology

• 2005

  PhD

  Chemical Engineering

• 2001

  BS

  Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  Omega Chi Epsilon (President)

• Spectroscopy

  Drug Delivery

  Cell Culture

  Microsoft Office

  HPLC

  Chemistry

  Research

  Nanoparticles

  Higher Education

  UV/Vis

  Characterization

  Nanotechnology

  Matlab

  Data Analysis

  Biomedical Engineering

  Chemical Engineering

  Microscopy

  Perl

  Statistics

  LabVIEW

  Cationic nanogels based on diethylaminoethyl methacrylate

  Nicholas Peppas

  Cationic nanogels based on diethylaminoethyl methacrylate

  McNair D

  Selvam P

  Aerosol Sci & Tech

  Micronized Drug Adhesion and Detachment from Surfaces: Effect of loading conditions

  James W. Tunnell

  Controlled Drug Delivery from Alginate Spheres in Design-based Learning Course

  Peppas

  NA

  \"Intelligent

  Responsive and Theranostic Hydrogel Systems for Controlled Delivery of Therapeutics\" in In Chemoresponsive Materials: Stimulation by Chemical and Biological Signals

  Donovan M

  Effects of Mild Processing Pressures on the Performance of Dry Power Inhaler Formulations (1): Budesonide and Lactose

  Herpin

  M

  Donovan

  M

  Novel Dry Powder Inhaler Particle Dispersion Systems

  Peppas

  NA

  Insulin Release Dynamics from Poly(diethylaminoethyl methacrylate) Hydrogel Systems

  Anthony J. Hickey

  Latarsha D. Jones

  Robert J. Garmise

  Daniel J. Cooney

  Lucila Garcia-Contreras

  \"Medical and pharmaceutical aerosols\" in Aerosols Handbook: Measurement

  Dosimetry

  and Health Effects

  2nd Ed

  Marek