As a chemical engineer for a large chemical manufacturer I developed an excel tool that analyzed sales trends for our products and compared the sales history to trends in customer requests for those products. This tool identified markets and applications where customers were asking for information about products but they were not placing orders. I hypothesized that by analyzing these gaps we could discover when our customers were evaluating our product for a potential new application. This would trigger my employer to form a research partnership enabling the development of new technologies while also increasing sales. My supervisor recognized me with a distinguished employee award for the development of this tool.
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