Carlos (A.) N.
Technology Licensing Officer
Experience
May 2025 - Present
8 monthsUnited States
Technology Licensing Officer
University of Hawai’i System, Office of Innovation and Commercialization
- Develop long-term relationships with faculty and gain nuanced understandings of their technical projects, especially within natural and physical sciences.
- Understand and communicate the commercialization value of faculty innovations for intellectual property protection, including drafting provisional and nonprovisional patents.
- Provide strategic support and guidance on resources (UH, state, federal) and partners for a commercialization strategy amenable to faculty personal and professional goals, resulting in cutting edge, beneficial technologies deployed into society.
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
8 monthsUnited States
Program Manager
University of Hawai’i System, Office of Innovation and Commercialization
- Promoted, led, and managed the Patents2Products program.
- Delivered entrepreneurial programming to a cohort of researchers.
- Monitored and advanced the technology and commercial readiness levels of innovations according to milestone-based roadmaps, providing strategic support on overcoming unforeseen problems.
- Mentored and supported fellows to identify and interface with key commercialization partners while safeguarding university IP.
Oct 2023 - Jul 2024
10 monthsUnited States
Consultant
University of Hawai’i System, Office of Innovation and Commercialization
- Assisted start-up companies through commercialization and business development roadblocks such as identifying product-market fit, price discovery, and connections with subject matter experts.
Jul 2022 - Oct 2023
1 year 4 monthsUnited States
Activate Boston Fellow
University of Hawai’i System, Office of Innovation and Commercialization
- One of nine early-stage start-up founders with globally relevant science technologies accepted for a two-year entrepreneurship program to aid commercialization.
- Assisted start-up companies through commercialization and business development roadblocks such as identifying product-market fit, price discovery, and connections with subject matter experts.
Feb 2020 - Oct 2023
3 years 9 monthsCo-founder, CEO, CTO
Closed Composites LLC
- Co-founded and established a start-up based on Ph.D. research recycling carbon fiber, winning $657K in prizes and grants through written and oral presentations.
- Mapped deficiencies and challenges within the carbon fiber supply chain to support clean energy deployment, identify opportunities to serve neglected markets, and introduce innovative products and procedures.
- Interviewed over 160 customers to understand the composite industry’s pain points and shape the role as a raw materials supplier and innovator in upkeep technology.
- Developed technoeconomic models demonstrating company viability and profitability across a range of projected business and chemical scenarios.
- Interviewed and executed on a research project on novel composite repair and preparation processes with a large defense customer.
- Prepared a tech and commercialization development plan, built out a research lab to scale company technology up a magnitude, conduct R&D, and develop initial minimum viable products in line with partner expectations.
May 2013 - May 2017
4 years 1 monthSan Bernardino, United States
Laboratory Technician
California State University, San Bernardino
- Staffed the university’s chemistry department chemical stockroom; ensured educational wet lab sections were organized and properly supplied for instruction.
- Maintained and trained users on university analytical instruments and tools, including GCMS, HPLC, ATR-FT-IR, FT-NMR, flame atomic absorption, cyclic voltammetry, UV-Vis, and nanopure water filtration.
Summary
Highly motivated Ph.D. chemist & entrepreneur with deep expertise in chemical methodologies, analytical techniques, and technical communication. Proven track record of translating complex chemical for broad audiences through pitching, grant writing ($657K raised for my start-up) and technology transfer. Extensive hands-on laboratory experience in scouring academic literature and adapting new procedures within catalysis, organic synthesis, materials characterization, and analytical methodologies through first-hand experience building my company’s research lab and scaling my patented recycling technology.
Advanced practitioner of AI-driven research and workflow automation, with demonstrated expertise in advanced prompting strategies, custom AI agent design, local LLM deployment, and multi-platform AI integration. Adept at creating AI guardrails through thoughtfully crafted prompt inputs, reviewing and correcting AI outputs, and extracting actionable insights from AI-assisted research.
Languages
English
NativeEducation
Oct 2017 - Jun 2022
University of Southern California
Ph.D. · Chemistry · Los Angeles, United States
Oct 2012 - Jun 2017
California State University, San Bernardino
B.S. · Chemistry · San Bernardino, United States
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