-: Once I graduated from NJIT
with my bachelor's in chemical engineering
and my minor in computer engineering,
I went on to pursue my master's in chemical engineering
at Columbia University directly out of school.
Right upon graduation, I joined my first job at Merck.
So, Merck, I joined in the manufacturing division
in the pharmaceutical commercialization technology group
and what the group does is essentially
scale up batches from small scale to commercial scale,
all the way to the filing and launch of drugs
via the FDA to different markets in the world.
So, that was my first job.
You know, very challenging, very interesting,
and I got to apply a lot of my skills
that I'd learned at NJIT.