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Manassas, Virginia, United States

* Implemented GitOps with ArgoCD to automate application deployment in dev environments.* Leveraged Jenkins, GitLab CI, and ansible for DevOps automating security scans, generating SBOMS, code linting, deploying Prometheus and Grafana for resource monitoring.* Repackaged RHEL UBI images into lightweight container base images for Java and GoLang.* Modified and integrated custom operating system for various hardware installations.* RoadmappedIR&D prototype to production, collaborating with technical leads and liaising between four companies to align priorities and schedules.* Outlined novel approaches to new problems, drawing on senior engineer methodologies.* Stoodup and managed a hardware-agnostic cloud testing lab for software integration and testing.* Integrated multiple containers, VMs, and bare metal applications into a unified system, and debugged the Kubernetes installations and applications.* Created Kubernetes operators and custom resource definitions in GoLang, along with support documentation for other developers.* Mentored junior engineers in technical integration, debugging, and Linux skills, leveraging research and cross-functional team experience.* Created, merged, and submitted deliverables into final contract data requirement lists to customers.

Fairfax, Va

* Crafted vision for, organized, and ran a repeatable, 3 day, 500 person, interdisciplinary hackathon event with a 10 person team * Liaised between interdisciplinary team of students, college staff and corporate business partners to ensure proper communication and alignment between groups and return on investment* Designed an adapted agile workflow suited for college students to optimize productivity and deadline compliance in a dynamically busy college environment* Advise new leadership team to become better leaders but not at the expense of event success

* Identify potential improvements to culture/environment and worked through plans to change it* Recognize lack of procedures and created team organization and formal processes for getting work done resulting in higher team synergy, productivity, and culture shifts across 11,000 members* Synchronize a team of 14 across different time zones to decrease moderation downtime by 50%* Handle adhoc high priority, time critical, crisis response/management

Doswell, Virginia, United States

* Planned, coordinated, setup and ran 4 state championship events for a total of 140 teams and 3500 people with a small team of coaches* Emailed monthly status updates for 150 coaches in the state and coordinated responses for actions* Established a process for managing volunteer sign up and information sharing for ~300 volunteers* Developed delegation and response plan for day of event logistics and problem management* Outlined high level plan for budget, expenses, awards, setup, vendors and event schedule* Enlisted a committee to ensure repeatability and sustainability of overall event for future years

Manassas, Virginia

Every year VEX Robotics creates a new challenge for which students build robots to compete with against other schools and organizations. I Manage the Sci-Tech VEXU Robotics team from George Mason and ensure the team has a focus so that all members have a job that they can perform in order to increase the quality of our robots and promote our team as a whole. Leading the design process and decision process for determining the approach to the yearly challenge and aiding in the documentation while maintaining communication between the team and our sponsors

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

* Create data labeling standards for machine learning project* Wrote python scripts to process and organize compiled binaries before being fed into ML models* Lead neural network testing for ongoing IR&D research on cross architecture malicious binary detection* Verified, updated and maintained confluence documentation for project pipeline

Chantilly, Va

* Leveraged the Tensorflow python library and computer vision to create & train a reinforcement learning agent to navigate a parking garage and park itself* Researched and visualized data for autonomous vehicle collisions to determine avenue of improvement* Implemented various supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning agents with python