My broad research training and education (over 20 years) has been mainly focused on organic synthesis of natural products, active pharmaceutical ingredients, and small molecules for medicinal chemistry and SAR development. I have pursued research opportunities in academic and industrial settings which helped me develop expertise in a diverse set of technical skills including: a wide variety of synthetic organic / analytical techniques in characterizing small molecules, design and execution of cost effective and improved synthetic methods for scale up and large- scale synthesis, telescoping of synthetic sequences. In addition, in the last 10 years, as a member of the MSU drug discovery leadership team, I have developed and advanced my capabilities in early drug discovery research while supporting medicinal chemistry and drug design projects including: ADME and PK studies design and protocols, formulation, data analysis. I have developed wide expertise in analytical method development and mass spec. analysis for PK studies and metabolite ID analysis which has led to SAR enhancement. I have a proven track record in the form of patents, products & innovation.