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State College, Pennsylvania, United States

Bellwood, Pennsylvania, United States

Lead a team of developers working on integrations (connectors) to third-party systemsAdd to and maintain PHP and Typescript/Javascript codebases underlying a SaaS product used by hundreds of municipalities across the USWork within an agile process -- interface with business analysts and organize sprint meetingsParticipate in code reviews through pull requests Use Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources including lambda functions, Cloudwatch, Simple Notification Service (SNS), and Simple Queue Service (SQS)Develop continuous-integration pipelines to ensure that new code meets quality standardsDevelop a network- and natural-language-processing-based system for grouping related Jira tickets

Bellwood, Pennsylvania, United States

Contributed to a Typescript/Vue SaaS product for tracking lead service line replacementDeveloped a preliminary machine-learning solution for identifying probable lead service lines given partial information on service-line material

State College, Pennsylvania, United States

Developed machine-health-condition classification models in Python for cloud deploymentApplied advanced statistical techniques (Bayesian methods) to solve a key estimation problem; the result became a key element of the cloud-based model technologyIdentified software bugs in cloud-based models using an offline test harness, traditional debuggers (e.g., `pdb`), and logs on AWS CloudWatchUsed static-analysis tools like `mypy` to guarantee the internal logical consistency of new and existing codeEstablished a continuous-integration pipeline to ensure that new code met quality standardsPlanned new software features, scoped work items, and tracked the progress of work items in sprint meetings and using Agile-style boards in Microsoft Azure DevOpsParticipated in code reviews through pull requests Documented code; wrote a ten-chapter introductory "book" to help onboard new team membersDeveloped an eight-episode video course to democratize data science across the businessCreated a curated list of LinkedIn Learning courses for new team members and other interested colleaguesPresented new software features and code to customer stakeholders

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Carried out analytical work to drive the business forward while successfully managing geographically distributed teams of up to 16 peopleCarried out analyses to support the development of a transformative, ROI-based marketing strategyDeveloped self-updating operational dashboards for use on production teams using Python and the Airtable APIDeveloped a tool that calls the Airtable and Dropbox APIs from within Python to simplify the ingestion of manuscript data, saving 10 hours of operational time/weekCarried out preliminary machine learning work to assess the relationship between individual peer reviews and editorial outcomesAnalyzed unstructured text data to identify the frequency of different issues in a corpus of over 3,000 scholarly manuscriptsApplied sentiment analysis to free-text input data to assess stakeholder satisfaction with a novel peer-review processGave four webinars, each of which reached hundreds of attendeesFour-time winner of the Culture Champion Award (2016-2020), which is given quarterly to 10% of the company based on colleague nominations

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Carried out data science projects in Python using text-based data and supervised machine learning techniques on Google Compute Engine (part of Google Cloud Platform)Wrote Python code to strip extraneous Unicode characters and improve sentence alignments in data used to train a machine learning modelEdited manuscripts written by scientists with native languages other than English; topics included statistics, artificial intelligence and machine learningWrote a blog post on the value of language editing during the review process; this post was viewed 34,929 times in one quarter

University Park, Pa

Wrote R code in support of ongoing research projectsDeveloped new chapters for an e-textbook, Risk Analysis in the Earth Sciences: A Lab Manual with Exercises in R (www.leanpub.com/raes), in collaboration with subject matter expertsPublished packages of code and data for materials associated with published scientific papers on GithubTaught summer research students to write computer code, in the classroom and individually

Dubois, Pa

Taught five courses on topics including hydrology, climate science, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and statisticsTaught students to write computer code in the R programming language (link to press release below)Helped students improve their quantitative reasoning and science communication skillsReached out to a local high school to help students there learn about education opportunities at Penn State DuBoisOrganized and ran field trips (link to press release below)

University Park, Pa

Carried out research on ice sheets and their possible future contributions to sea-level rise. (Links to press releases below)Traveled to and presented at scientific meetings. (Mentioned in BBC News; link below)Co-edited (with Klaus Keller) an e-textbook, Risk Analysis in the Earth Sciences: A Lab Manual with Exercises in R, which is freely available from www.leanpub.com/raes. (Link to press release below)Contributed 10 chapters to the e-textbook as first author.

University Park, Pa

Carried out research on ice sheets and their possible future contributions to sea-level rise. Traveled to and presented at scientific meetings. Prepared and administered lab exercises for a course, Risk Analysis in the Earth Sciences, that taught students to carry out statistical analyses using the R programming language.

Stockholm, Sverige

Carried out research on ice sheets and their possible future contributions to sea-level rise. Traveled to and presented at scientific meetings. Organized and led weekly paper discussions for postdocs and Ph. D. students.

Geneseo, Ny

Taught an introductory geology course, including preparation of all class materials.

Postbaccalaureate Certificate, Geographic Information Systems

Description of program online at http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/degrees-and-certificates/geographic-information-systems-gis-certificate/ove.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geosciences

Master Of Science, Geology/Earth Science, General

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Geology/Earth Science, General

Education record