Rebecca Guza

• Lead the R&D, Technical Service, and Compliance lab team, fostering collaboration with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to deliver innovative corrosion solutions to both new and existing customers across diverse markets. • Foster innovation, execute projects through strong collaboration, and develop the lab team to drive success.

• Established a Technical Services Team and instituted effective collaboration with Sales, Engineering, prospective customers, and customers. Managed complex projects and pulled cross-functional resources together to solve customer challenges. • Excited to network with and visit prospective customers to understand their challenges and present them with solutions that improve their workflow and efficiency. • Created proposals as a way for Technical Services and Sales to communicate value and benefits to prospective customers resulting in increased opportunity win rates and decreased days to close. • Drove the creation of technical content including webinars, conference presentations, website pages, blog articles, and case studies. Created programs to transform the way Sales presents solutions and services to prospective customers.

• Conducted performance reviews, coaching, mentoring, and professional development of team members. • Managed projects with cross-functional teams (Product Management, SIOP, Operations, & Commercial) to develop and launch adhesive products for the Transportation market. • Used Stage-Gate process and project management skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously, achieve key project milestones in a timely manner and move projects to completion. • Directed proactive projects to better understand commercial product lines. • Communicated technical results to customers via in-person and virtual presentations to demonstrate our technical excellence and expertise. • Improved lab efficiency through the following: identified and implemented a software system to track projects; used project prioritization to identify critical projects, align with commercial priorities, and maximize available resources; created a repository of commercial products to expedite product testing and evaluation. • Led the upgrade and reorganization of the packaging application lab with the mission to bring together R&D, commercial and customer teams to test new ideas, evaluate products and demonstrate capabilities. • Worked with and understood the unique needs of various organizational functions. Monitored analytical requests from R&D (25-30/month) and Technical Service (20-25/month). • Collaborated with technical teams to efficiently solve complex problems and provide profitable solutions. Coordinated sample analysis with to ensure deadlines were met, customer questions were answered, and value-added work was produced. • Developed and implemented an action plan with quarterly and annual objectives to improve communication between Global Analytical and the technical community by defining the present and desired state, assessing the needs of the stakeholders, evaluating the strategic objectives of the organization, and providing leadership and direction.

• Designed, executed, interpreted, and communicated experiments and results involving stevia and stevia extract. • Performed extractions, purifications, and crystallizations in the lab scale production of Truvia™. • Collaborated with Truvia™ group members and QA/QC personnel in the development and completion of experiments.

• Taught biochemistry (lecture & lab), general chemistry (lecture), and analytical chemistry (lab). • Managed a biochemistry laboratory of 30 students with 10 different simultaneous projects. • Coached students on career development opportunities.

Thesis: Effect of sequence content on the formation and repair of DNA adducts. Advisor: Natalia Tretyakova

Thesis: Isolation of natural products from Casearia nigrescens. Advisor: David G. I. Kingston

Research Project: Isolation and identification of a photoinduced autoinhibitor produced by Schizophyllum commune. Advisor: Kate Graham