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Rothesay, Nb, Ca

Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada

Key accomplishments and roles included:📊 Digital Twin Configuration & Data Analysis: Implemented digital twins for clients spanning many different industries. Utilized advanced techniques, including machine learning, to predict performance metrics and configure models for enhanced operational insights.🔍 Research & Insights: Drove in-depth research into industrial processes, HVAC systems, and energy converters, resulting in the development of performance baselines. Successfully translated these findings into actionable recommendations for clients, emphasizing energy optimization.👩‍💻 Code Development & Debugging: Showcased proficiency in C# to develop innovative solutions, from thermal efficiency calculations for boilers to predictive maintenance strategies. Addressed bugs and enhanced downtime detection logic, ensuring accurate and timely data representation.📑 Documentation & Platform Implementation: Prepared comprehensive knowledge base documentation and setup guides, facilitating seamless TwinThread platform deployments. Assisted organizations with data validation and sensor remapping to extract meaningful insights.🖥️ Dashboard & Monitor Creation: Crafted intuitive dashboards displaying key metrics like the coefficient of performance for chillers. Visualized both historical and real-time operational states, empowering clients to make data-driven decisions.🤝 Stakeholder Engagement & Presentations: Effectively communicated data findings, project statuses, and recommendations to diverse stakeholders.

Lantz, Nova Scotia, Canada

Key accomplishments and roles included:📊 Data Analysis & Reporting: Maintained and analyzed daily production metrics using Microsoft Excel and Power BI, producing weekly reports to elucidate plant performance metrics such as time efficiency, cost of waste, and yield discrepancies. 📱 App Development: Designed a user-friendly application via Microsoft Power Apps to aid the production team in calculating critical parameters for constructing small manhole forms, ensuring streamlined operations. 🔬 Quality Assurance: Conducted thorough quality verifications on diverse product life cycles, engaged in "bakeouts" to ascertain moisture content of aggregates, and investigated concrete maturity to predict mix strength. 🗂️ Documentation & Training: Assisted in documentation and training initiatives, including drafting standard operating procedures, creating flow maps, and cataloging key procedures for constructing specialized products such as K-Block retaining walls. 📉 PowerBI Integration: Contributed to the integration of key Shaw Precast databases into Microsoft PowerBI, leading to the creation of dynamic visuals and dashboards tracking critical performance indicators. 🗣️ Stakeholder Communication: Regularly communicated pivotal plant performance metrics to diverse stakeholders including engineering, production, and management teams, fostering cross-departmental collaboration and transparency. 🚧 Safety & Quality: Committed to rigorous safety standards, I actively participated in re-calibrating aggregate moisture probes and ensured precise data analysis for the quality assurance of the concrete production.

New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada

Key accomplishments and roles included:🏭 Machine Operation & Product Handling: Efficiently operated a 15-meter-long machine independently and collaboratively. Skillfully cut, rolled, and transported synthetic rubber, playing a pivotal role in Michelin's tire-making process.🔍 Quality & Safety Adherence: Rigorously followed plant quality and safety protocols, ensuring every product met Michelin's high standards and guaranteeing a safe working environment.⏱️ Endurance & Focus: Demonstrated resilience by effectively handling 12-hour shifts, both day and night, maintaining consistent focus and productivity throughout the demanding schedule.📚 Documentation & Literacy: Utilized skills in reading and document usage to adhere to complex guidelines and ensure seamless production flow.🤝 Team Collaboration & Autonomy: Actively contributed as a key member of high-performance teams, while also showcasing the ability to work autonomously, handling crucial tasks without direct supervision.🛠️ Problem-Solving & Production Flow: Leveraged strong problem-solving abilities to promptly address production challenges, ensuring uninterrupted workflow and meeting daily business expectations.⏰ Punctuality & Commitment: Unfailingly reported to work on time for scheduled shifts, underpinning the team's efforts in achieving key operating indicators.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Chemical Engineering

Diploma Of Engineering, Chemical Engineering, 4.27/4.30 Gpa

High School Diploma, General Studies, 99% Cumulative Average