Jacob Amo

Served as a process engineer for the manufacturing of hollow filament gas separation membranes.

Lead and implemented a commissioning plan for a new epoxy dispenser required for the manufacturing of aerospace gas separation membranes.

Provided day to day support for membrane manufacturing.

• Demonstrated strong operational troubleshooting skills when operating pilot scale fermentations.
• Served as a shift lead for night and evening shifts when performing pilot scale fermentations.
• Implemented a new spiral envelope membrane system for a continuous in process filtration. Wrote a standard operating procedures for start up, in process operation and cleaning of the membrane system.

• Served a lead operator for lab scale experiment runs to produce butyl acrylate.
• Updated and reviewed standard operating procedures for the butyl acrylate project.
• Gained troubleshooting experience in starting up and operating a lab scale reactive distillation system.

• Served as a quality assurance tech for the food safety plan of a FDA regulated plant.
• Inspected raw materials and COAs against the J.M. Smucker food safety standards.
• Communicated quality and food safety holds to operations and management.

• Calibrated industrial temperature sensors in an ISO 9001 accredited lab
• Calibrated thermocouples and RTDs against a platinum RTD standard.
• Performed receiving inspections on raw materials.