Experience

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  University of rochester

  Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

  Sales technician
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  Zimmer biomet

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

  Quality engineer

  * Sorted through 120000+ rows of customer data to analyze if orthopedic products for gauge and product evaluation* Led and educated a team of Quality Engineers in Risk Management (Hazard Analysis, Failure Analysis)* Formulate procedures, specifications, and standards for Zimmer products and processes* Developed and implemented corrective/preventative action plans* Identifies critical personnel, gauges, procedures, and materials needed for the completion of new products

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  Spokane regional transportation council

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  Data scientist

  * Provided transportation modeling and analysis required for long-range regional plans, transit systems, corridor studies, air quality, and major highway and transit investment studies* Developed and maintained standard and custom software applications to support travel forecast modeling; developed new software and scripts, and created new architectures as modeling needs evolve* Performed validation and calibration of travel demand models using third party data sources such as INRIX, Airsage, ATRI and Streetlight* Analyzed and assessed travel demand model results and prepare tables/graphics/plots of results for presentations and reports* Ensured transportation modeling tools and analytical capabilities are credible and effective for policy analysis* Developed and implemented scripting for traffic software packages to enhance input, output and support results* Collect, analyze and organize data sets for performance management, traffic, household survey and census* Developed traffic networks and perform planning analysis on multi-modal networks* Ensured projects are completed on schedule, within the prescribed budget, and with a high-level of effectiveness* Coordinate and collaborate on inter-departmental and inter-agency project teams* Prepare and present written, oral, and visual reports to stakeholder committees Show less

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  University of rochester

  Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  Metadata project assistant

  * Created the Master Decoder Ring. A web based tool to house schemas such as the Configuration Management Database, Service Catalog, Reference Data, and more using the Insight Query Language to catalog assets and make the information available to University IT for various purposes such as server failure* Developed, implemented and architected information in RDBMS using Jira/Insight Query Language/Confluence* Regularly meet with stakeholders to best understand user needs, usage, applications, and support required Show less

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  L3harris technologies

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2023

  Big data software engineer

  * Created the TCP/IDP messaging function for ISR Drones (Java)* Implemented Kubernetes containers to communicate over high-low side barriers (C++)* Improved satellite imagery software for Intelligence Community* Created software to automate the distillation of massive amounts of data into information* Developed analytics for large heterogeneous data sets* Created infrastructure to process data in distributed systems* Worked with DoD clients to make sure analytics transform data in meaningful ways* Involved in and collaborated with fast-moving Agile teams with new ideas to make customers products even better Show less

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  Otter solutions, llc

  Jan 2022 - now

  Forward engineer

  Black Owned Small Business specializing in Data Science & Software Development *Independent contractor for the DoD & US Federal Government*Creating AMI SaaS solutions on the AWS Marketplace for AI/ML Engineers and Data Scientists*Creating a simplified MLOps tool for Data Scientists to evaluate their most effectives models*Creating a repository of pre-trained algorithms for use in Computer Vision and Object Detection

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  Booz allen hamilton

  Jan 2023 - Jan 2024

  Sr. data scientist

  * Data Scientist SME helping educate 30,000 DoD personnel about the importance of Generative AI* Created the AWS Cloud Architecture for processing of text using LLMs such as H20 GPT, Claude2, & Ollama* Performed data exploration, cleaning, analysis, visualization, and mining* Used general-purpose programming languages (Python) for data analysis* Created of predictive data models, quantitative analyses, and visualization of targeted data sources* Analyzed structured and unstructured data sources Show less