Michael Crothers

Experience

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  Bricks4kidz

  Jun 2015 - Sept 2021

  Teacher

  I taught stem related lego classes to children pre-K to 8th grade in summer school, E-hour, boy/girl scout, and birthday party events.

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  Space Systems Research Lab

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  Research Intern

  - Led the programming and electronics of a 5 person team to develop an atmospheric monitor for the laboratory, a satellite to ground-station interaction model, and a proof of concept design for a nanosatellite-mounted sun-following solar panel - Created a script to read in temperature and humidity sensor data and publish periodic text message alerts- Wrote object detection and tracking algorithms for a simulated satellite reported phenomena- Simulated the effectiveness of different solar panel configurations on nanosatellites in MATLAB- Demonstrated and presented research, analysis, and prototypes to faculty and staff Show less

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  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

  Jun 2023 - Jul 2023

  Software Development Intern

  - Developed software to automatically aggregate satellite data and visualize results using Python web-scraping and data science modules which saved mission partners time and effort- Presented results at agency and interagency events to employees and representatives

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  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

  May 2024 - Aug 2024

  Data Science Intern

  - Created a variational autoencoder model to detect anomalous user sequences on millions of network logs- Utilized querying and database technologies to pull model training data and store results- Containerized program with Docker and orchestrated scheduled program execution with Apache Airflow- Created data visualizations and dashboards to demonstrate model predictions and analytics- Communicated model results to agency leadership and customers