 My first small step was taking an internship while I was a graduate student with ExxonMobil which helped me make an important career choice about going into academia or industry. My second small step was meeting the employees at Cook Biotech through connections of my academic group, learning about that company and making those personal connections. And my third small step has been maintaining a relationship with Purdue, with the students, with the staff and the faculty and volunteering my time to come on campus and give technical and professional development lectures. My giant leap has been accepting a job with Cook Biotech when I graduated almost four years ago. I am so happy to be working in a field that I care so much about and working with a team and a group of people who are a really excellent group of people to work with. My name is Sydney Hollingshead. I graduated in 2018 from Chemical Engineering with a doctorate and I currently work at Cook Biotech Incorporated in West Lafayette. I'm a Purdue engineer.