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New York City Metropolitan Area

Bronx, New York, United States

• Intensive 16 week IT fundamentals program designed to launch IT careers and transform lives. The main focus of this program is to obtain important IT certifications such as CompTIA A+, CompTIA ITF+, and Google IT.
• Hardware Configuration - Performed lab work including Assembly/Disassembly of computers
• Linux - Conducted multiple simulations that applied our knowledge to troubleshoot client computers
• Troubleshooting - Learned TCP/IP, OSI Model and the troubleshooting process to better troubleshoot computing devices.
• Networking – Used Kali Linux, an open source OS to manipulate a computers IP and MAC address to match up with the main network.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Syracuse, New York, United States

• This Project was a part of a Technology Management class I took during my undergraduate career at SU. The task was to figure out a way in order to solve a problem within the community utilizing some sort of technology.
• Team Management - Led a team in planning the construction of a wind farm that would save Syracuse University 8 million dollars annually
• Team Management - Planned and directed weekly team meetings
• Project Planning - Assisted with various deliverables required for project completion.

Syracuse, New York, United States

Worked collaboratively to on redesigning the HVAC system of the ZEB pilot house, an energy efficient house in Larvik Norway.

Syracuse, New York, United States

• Collaboratively redesign the HVAC system for the ZEB Pilot house, and energy efficient house in Larvik Norway.
• Research - Conducted research on the ZEB pilot house focusing on design and hourly, daily, weeks energy expenditure
• Teamwork - participated in regular team meetings in order to brainstorm design changes, discuss objectives and complete various project task.
• Public Speaking - Presented monthly progress to professor and class for feed back
• Designbuilder - Built a three dimensional model of the ZEB pilot house and changed the HVAC system. Established schedule for residences as well HVAC system.
• Analysis - Analyzed resulting energy expenditure

Syracuse University

• Competitively selected to participate in an intensive six-week program where a partner and I conceived, prototyped, and presented our invention, the Micro-Submerger, weekly for critique
• Conceived and prototyped the Micro-Submerger; an autonomous floating microplastics filtration device
• Solidworks / Autocad - Created concept designs of the Micro-Submerger
• Testing - Designed test in order to see what improvements need to be made
• Was able to clean out a pound of small plastic beads from a 822 gallon pool
• Public Speaking- Presented on our progress weekly in front of a panel of guest judges

• Led a group of local middle school students in conceiving, designing, and constructing a Lego robot so that they can enter it into a competition ran by Cstep.
• Team Management - Came up with daily task for the students complete
• Teaching - Taught the student the basics of code the through a simplified program made for the robots
• Team Management - Led the students through the project planning steps

Syracuse, New York, United States

• Designed a mobile done platform building off of a previous Capstone project from a previous year. We were to take stationary drone platform designed by a previous year and make it mobile. We were also task with fine.
• Testing - Designed test in order to see how accurate the drone landing was
• Increased the accuracy of the drone landing from a few inches to a few centimeters
• Solidworks – Created CAD designs of our drone platform and drone attachments
• Ansys Static Structural – Conducted FEA using the CAD designs of our platform
• Project Planning - Assisted with various deliverables required for project completion.

Syracuse, New York, United States

• Designed, manufactured, and tested an original concept for a card flipping device for a final project. This device was to be capable of flipping 30 cards in 20 seconds.
• Teamwork - Participated in regular team in order to brainstorm solutions and communicate task completion
• Solidworks - Created three dimensional concept designs utilizing Solidworks
• Manufacturing - manufactured individual part of assembly utilizing tools such as boring drills and band saws
• Testing - tested project by timing how long it would take out project to flip 30 cards

Syracuse University

• Created simple game card game on the computer called signals. This is a childhood card game where you and a part are trying to get four like card in your hand and signal to each other once the objective is met. This.
• Presentation - Pitched idea of project to professor for approval.
• Java - Wrote a script in java including the game menu, game, AI, and leaderboard in alignment with project requirements