Ariana Thacker

Founder

MoldCo

Jan 2023 - Current (3 years 7 months)

Empowering humanity with health that withstands the world. Detox and repair: support@moldco.com

Advisor

X Capital

Jan 2023 - Dec 2024 (2 years)

Operations Engineer

Phillips

Jan 2012 - Dec 2012 (1 year)

I was an engineering intern for Distillation and Cracking Operations at the Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, Los Angeles, California. My projects spanned multiple units and included optimizing steam usage and heater excess oxygen targets, developing a water usage and flare monitoring tool, and coordinating legal requirements for a unit turnaround.

Cohort #3

Coolwater Capital

Jan 2021 - Dec 2021 (1 year)

Founding Partner

Conscience VC

Jan 2020 - Dec 2024 (5 years)

Conscience is an early-stage firm investing in science empowering humanity.

Managing Partner

Predictive

Jan 2019 - Dec 2021 (3 years)

Predictive is an early-stage investment firm supporting high-performing companies with a proprietary and scalable data advantage.

Corporate Partnership Lead, Investor

Rhapsody Venture Partners

Jan 2018 - Dec 2020 (3 years)

Rhapsody leads early-stage investments into industrial science and "hard tech" start-ups. I managed external innovation for large, multinational corporate partners across Asia, South America, Europe, and North America, and investments into early-stage founders, academic spin-outs, professors, and research groups.

Founder

bootup

Jan 2017 - Dec 2018 (2 years)

bootup is an award-winning philanthropic organization focused on connecting, developing, and advancing women in engineering. We help female engineers achieve success by providing mentorship, job and growth opportunities, and resources, such as our 10-part bootcamp and 4-year plan for university students. We host mentorship events, professional development events, panels, motivational public speeches, conferences, and workshops with local organizations, universities, and community colleges.

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Founding Team

UCLA Mechanical Engineering SpinOut

Jan 2016 - Dec 2016 (1 year)

An energy storage academic spin-out from UCLA Engineering, funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC). We developed the technology for the first Hybrid Compressed Air/Thermal Energy Storage pilot plant. I joined as one of the founding team members. My responsibilities included modeling steady-state and dynamic process simulations, plant optimizations, feasibility studies, determining specifications, sizing and selecting equipment, creating a cost-effective plant design, failure analysis, developing test plans and manuals, proposing/evaluating/submitting invention documentation for patenting, creating plant drawings, supervising contractors, and grant proposal writing.

Operations Engineer

Aera Energy LLC

Jan 2013 - Dec 2015 (3 years)

Exxon and Shell joint venture and one of California's largest oil and gas producers, accounting for nearly 25% of the state's production. I held positions as a Facilities Engineer for the gas gathering and compressor systems, and a Production Engineer for the well abandonment and pumping unit processes. My responsibilities included initiating and implementing capital field improvement and mechanical integrity projects (see projects below), troubleshooting operational issues and process upsets, developing and coordinating maintenance plans, leading failure analysis, technical recruiting and interviewing, community outreach, process optimization, equipment sizing, crew supervision, developing technical methodologies, automating processes, d

Operations Engineer

Abbott

Jan 2011 - Dec 2011 (1 year)

I was an HVAC operations engineering intern on the Global Engineering Services Team at Abbott Laboratories headquarters located in Lake Bluff, IL. My responsibilities included determining filter change-out points for air handling systems, and estimating HVAC projects savings with an energy, material, and labor savings model.

Research Associate

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Jan 2010 - Dec 2012 (3 years)

I received grant funding for the autonomous design of tissue engineering experiments and lab techniques to enhance direct control over stem cell differentiation.

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Start-Up Consulting

Ariana Thacker

Executive Board

The Tau Beta Pi Association Inc

Jan 2010 - Dec 2011 (2 years)

I sat on the executive board and volunteered as a STEM tutor for multi-disciplinary engineering students through the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society.

President, Executive Board

Society of Women Engineers

Jan 2009 - Dec 2013 (5 years)

The Society of Women Engineers is a not-for-profit organization with over 40,000 members. I held executive board positions as President, Evening with Industry Chair, and Mentorship Chair.

Chem-E Car Team Lead

AIChE American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Jan 2009 - Dec 2011 (3 years)

Our team designed, experimented, and built a shoebox-sized car fueled and stopped purely by chemical reactions.

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