Tate Gillespie

Experience

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  Blue Raven Solar

  Mar 2020 - Feb 2022

  - Scheduled inspections with pertinent cities and counties for customers. Involved detailed document and information coordination. - I worked closely with a team for project coordination and efficiency. - I worked closely with Excel, Site Capture, and in house software systems to schedule resurveys, provide feedback, and increase efficiency with regards to site surveys. - I Increased my experience in project management and coordination as well tactful skills in customer deescalation, and problem solving.- Used Excel and problem solving to decrease resurvey percentage from 7% to 3%- Developed inventory system for tool supply with our Site Surveyors using Excel - I 3D modeled homes through Aurora design software, and custom create solar proposals for customers and our representatives working closely with Excel.- Performed in top 5% of department in metrics of productivity and accuracy- Diminished wait times for immediate proposals by decreasing project cycle times by 50%

  • Inspections Coordinator

    Jan 2022 - Feb 2022

  • Site Survey Coordinator

    Feb 2021 - Jan 2022

  • Proposal Specialist

    Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
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  BYU McKay School of Education

  Feb 2022 - Jan 2024

  Full-stack Developer/Photographer

  - Built and managed over 5,000 web pages to achieve a website rebuild and redesign in 4 months with a team of 8 developers- Resolved over 200 tickets with an average, fix time of less than 8 hours- Updated over 15 banner images by scheduling more than 20 photoshoots handling 1-5 subjects, and editing photos to achieve a uniform website aesthetic

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  Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business

  May 2022 - Oct 2022

  Front-end Developer/Designer

  - Design and research content for 14 chapters to create an appealing, online textbook now used by over 300 students and more than 10 professors- Conducted weekly meetings and collaborated with 3 professors to finish textbook in 4 months

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  BYU Silver Fund

  May 2022 - now

  Full-stack Web Developer

  - Construct a dynamic web application to optimize, analyze, and control an investment portfolio worth over $3.5 million- Developed a proprietary, optimization algorithm – by collaborating with 3 engineers – averaging over 8% annual return on investment

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  Brigham Young University

  Oct 2022 - Apr 2023

  Machine Learning Specialist

  Lower back pain is one of the most common and economically burdensome physical ailments existing. More than half of the working population experiences back pain each year, and in America alone, at least $50 billion is annually spent treating it. My task in the BYU BABEL Research Lab has been to analyze spinal motion to more economically and efficiently diagnose chronic lower back pain via innovative high-deflection strain gauges.

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  Walmart Global Tech

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  Software Engineer

  - Built scalable and configurable synthetic data pipeline for computer-vision object-detection training with Walmart layout skews, while collaborating with 10 engineers- Saved 1000s of dollars in time spent labeling data, and employee time spent managing inventory

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  Brigham Young University Marriott School of Business

  Jan 2024 - Apr 2024

  Machine Learning Teaching Assistant
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  Goldman Sachs

  Jun 2024 - Aug 2024

  Risk Engineering Summer Analyst

  - Automated a weekly report involving over 20 billion dollars for regulatory reporting- Coded a spreadsheet allowing users to adjust quantitative metrics for calculatingcredit ratings, savings hours of investigative and manual work- Created a Python coding style guide used by over 20 engineers- Improved a daily report of over 200 billion dollars saving 30 minutes per day

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  Brigham Young University

  Oct 2024 - now

  CS393 Advanced Algorithms Teaching Assistant