Phoebe Grunt
Alameda,CA
Summary
Dedicated and results-oriented product developer with a five+ year proven track record of optimizing manufacturing processes and ensuring product innovation and quality. Armed with a comprehensive background in engineering principles, ways-of-working improvement methodologies, and cross-functional collaboration. Consistently contributed to enhancing operational efficiency and reducing costs end-to-end through the product development lifecycle.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Scientist
The Clorox Company
09.2022 - Current
- Product and process development lead for Pine-Sol and Fraganzia reformulations, delivering $3MM annual cost savings
- Product development lead for EPA’s SaferChoice-certified EcoClean product line launch, $1.2MM sales in first year
- Identified product improvement opportunities post-launch projected to deliver $0.7-$2.1MM incremental sales
- Claims development process improvement lead – Led a team of Brand, Legal, and R&D in developing a seven-part training program across the CPro targeting improved claims development knowledge management and integration of claims development into stage-gate project timelines
- Developed improved technical risk assessment process and implemented across over 15 cross-functional teams
- Results reduced R&D development spend and overall project development timelines by as much as 20%
- Process adopted into stage-gate project workplans as cross-functional project risk assessment workbook
- R&D lab redesign lead – Successful management of lab conversion into shared, BSL-2 compliant space
- Enabled $500k savings to construction budget while designing improved co-working conditions for Microbiology and CPro product development team to reduce work-related injuries
- Chief of Staff for Clorox Science Education Team, Bay Area leader in youth science outreach, managing annual budget of $20k, 5 core team members, and 50+ member volunteer base
- Led CY22 transformation of program strategy to enable impact in new hybrid school settings with focus on inclusion and diversity
- Strategy overhaul achieved unanimous buy-in from key leadership stakeholders.
Scientist II
The Clorox Company
03.2020 - 09.2022
- Technical lead for margin-accretive solid bleach product and organic acid-based disinfecting concentrate product innovations with focus on better-for-environment concentrated disinfectants for healthcare facilities, managing relationships with key external development partners
- Lead scientist on Clorox Out of Home business development team, driving new partner acquisitions in travel, entertainment, and hospitality sectors
- Established JMP models correlating key technical product attributes to consumer liking scores for emulsified ranch products
- Models shortened time to market by as much as 20% and reduced development budgets by eliminating need for preliminary consumer testing
- Resulted in $4+MM in product cost savings annually while improving consumer-liking scores for core ranch products by more than 10%
- Two-time intern mentor – Designed and managed summer research projects for both Hidden Valley Foods and Clorox Professional businesses.
Scientist I
The Clorox Company
08.2018 - 03.2020
- Process development lead for two Hidden Valley Ranch product launches, owning implementation at manufacturing scale
- Role expanded in 2019 to include bench top formula development resulting in two Hidden Valley Foods product launch from benchtop to commercialization
- Identified and led execution of two multi-million dollar product and manufacturing process cost savings initiatives without sacrificing consumer delight
- Established and optimized onboarding knowledge management and documentation enabling new hire success for Foods business, authoring best practice guides and more than five standard operating procedure (SOP) documents.
Intern
The Clorox Company
06.2017 - 08.2017
- Identified and characterized novel Hidden Valley Ranch dip product rheological properties that both delighted consumers and enabled successful product scale-up, presented results and recommendations to leadership.
Intern
Innovative Micro Technology, IMT
06.2016 - 07.2016
- Partnered with CTO and Principle Scientist to characterize silicon switch platform test structures
- Identified failure modes within test switches using focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM), energy dispersive X-ray analysis, and optical microscope techniques, developing lapping and polishing techniques to identify copper through-silicon-via irregularities.
Intern
Enovix Corp
06.2015 - 07.2015
- Supported fabrication of high capacity Lithium-ion anode test structures for use in electrolyte and electrolyte additive screening tests, delivered highest quality structures made to date in lab
- Prepared and characterized various solutions and additives, tested their effects on corrosion, presented results and recommendations to leadership.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CASkills
- Stage-gate technical work plan development and execution
- Cross-functional stakeholder communication
- Management of technical research projects
- External partnership management
- Co-manufacturer technical liaison
- BIOVIA electronic lab notebooks (ELN), lab inventory management (CISpro), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
- DOE development and execution; Proficient in Design Expert; Experience in JMP, Minitab, Matlab
- Good Manufacturing Processes (21 CFR Part 110) and Good Laboratory Practices (40 CFR part 160 – FIFRA; 40 CFR part 792 – TSCA)
Websites
Education And Memberships
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, 06/2018, Honors, Dean's List, NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball – Four-year starter, Two-year captain, MEMBER, Board of Trustees – Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School, MEMBER, Board of Trustees, UC Santa Barbara NCAA Women's Volleyball Alumni Association, MEMBER, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society, COACH, Youth, club-level volleyball
Affiliations
- MEMBER, Board of Trustees – Saint Joseph Notre Dame High School
- MEMBER, Board of Trustees, UC Santa Barbara NCAA Women's Volleyball Alumni Association
- MEMBER, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society
- COACH, Youth, club-level volleyball
Timeline
Senior Scientist
The Clorox Company
09.2022 - Current
Scientist II
The Clorox Company
03.2020 - 09.2022
Scientist I
The Clorox Company
08.2018 - 03.2020
Intern
The Clorox Company
06.2017 - 08.2017
Intern
Innovative Micro Technology, IMT
06.2016 - 07.2016
Intern
Enovix Corp
06.2015 - 07.2015
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
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