Adolfo Herrera Email & Phone Number

El Segundo, California, United States

- Selected to participate in a rigorous 16-week data engineering program focused on building skills in Python, cloud services, and databases, culminating in a capstone project- Collaborated with a team of five across different time zones to create and follow a project plan and meet weekly deliverables, resulting in a wildfire data warehouse and datafolio- Established an ETL pipeline to source thousands of rows of wildfire and weather data in California from public sources, cleaned the data, then uploaded it to both S3 and Redshift

Alhambra, California, United States

- Taught 98 students from 5th - 8th grade in both math and science, having to prepare 8 lessons per day for the full year- Learned effective teaching methods to reach younger students on the job which improved math test scores overall from the 50th percentile to the 60th percentile- Maintained frequent communication with students and parents on progress and expectations to ensure students were kept on track in their subject material

Fullerton, California

- Maintained established routine of the school and classroom procedures as well as a safe and orderly environment - Communicated effectively with students’ parents when needed - Provided classroom instruction to students as outlined in lesson plans - Received frequent requests from math, computer science, and science teachers at the middle school level to fill in for their classes

Tucson, Arizona Area

- Developed automated MATLAB code to extract necessary NASA GPM satellite weather from hundreds of files, each over 100 MB in size- Performed statistical analysis using MATLAB and R on 15,000 rows of GPM precipitation data to determine the NASA satellite precipitation detection system had difficulties recording Southwest monsoon storm events in comparison to rain gauges- Presented findings at a research symposium to an auditorium of climate researchers

Master Of Science - Ms, Mechanical Engineering

Education record

Activities and Societies: Engineers Without Borders Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers