Tessa Valenzuela

Tessa Valenzuela is a Senior Information Security Engineer at Appian Corporation, where experience includes roles as Information Security Application Engineer and Senior Consultant since August 2019. Tessa previously worked as a Student Summer Worker at Pfizer in 2018, collaborating with Dr. Jigna Patel on Advil soft gels and delivering a presentation summarizing the work. An undergraduate teaching assistant at the University of Virginia from August 2017 to May 2018, Tessa supported General Chemistry students under Professor Kevin Welch. Earlier experience includes serving as a Research and Laboratory Assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University, conducting experiments on Nevirapine for a research project. Tessa holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia, completed in 2019.