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Springfield, Mo, Us

Lead a dynamic team of data scientists, engineers, and solutions architects, providing strategic guidance and mentorship to foster collaboration and innovation. Oversee multiple data science projects, from initial planning to execution and delivery, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines. In addition to project leadership, focus on improving overall processes within the team, setting and maintaining high standards for data science excellence. This encompasses fostering a culture of continuous improvement, identifying training needs, and nurturing talent to enhance capabilities and career growth.Directly engage with clients to understand their needs and expectations, translating those requirements into actionable project plans. Navigate the technical complexities to seamlessly guide cross-functional teams through the entire data science lifecycle. Work closely with program managers and product owners to translate data insights into customer-centric products, ensuring customer satisfaction and positive feedback.Actively contribute to the company's overall strategic planning and collaborate with leaders across various divisions to align data science initiatives with the overarching business strategy. This involves identifying opportunities for cross-functional collaboration and ensuring that data-driven insights are integrated into end user products. By fostering a holistic approach to strategic planning, help create synergies between data science endeavors and the broader organizational goals, enhancing the company's overall competitiveness and positioning in the industry.

Principal investigator of several research and development topics involving haptic perception or touch. Example projects include researching correlations and developing models to relate human language and haptic perception and developing predictive models to simulate haptic perception based on construction and manufacturing parameters of products or materials.Solutions architect for designing the cloud infrastructure needed to host software as a service (SaaS) applications and transmit and receive data from test equipment. The cloud infrastructure was developed using Amazon Web Services including Lambda, Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Relational Database Service (RDS), Simple Storage Service (S3), Cognito, Secrets Manager, and several others.Develop SaaS applications as containerized services. Established a new revenue stream for the company by developing and deploying multiple web-based applications to assist customers in data management, visualization, and analysis. The applications allow a user to upload data to a data repository, inspect data using different visualization techniques, and investigate correlations and develop models between different datasets. The containerized services were developed in Python using Streamlit, Plotly, SciPy, Scikit-Learn, Pandas, Numpy, PyMySQL, AWS SDK, and several others.Project manager for all next generation software under development. Define the functionality of the next generation of software solutions. Use Agile SCRUM methodologies to track and monitor development utilizing JIRA.Direct point of contact with all customers performing haptics studies or engaging in collaborations. Responsible for analyzing collected data, preparing reports as deliverables for studies, and presenting the findings to customers who range from engineers to executive members.

Springfield, Missouri, United States

Promoted from associate device development engineer to device systems engineer - team leader to senior device systems engineer - team leader during this time.Lead a team of principal investigators for several internet of things (IoT) sensing systems. The team included data scientists, data engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and full stack developers. I was the project manager for several IoT sensing system projects including industrial internet of things, water contamination monitoring, and air quality measurements. The team used JIRA to manage all projects and tasks in an Agile SCRUM approach. I oversaw the development of everything from the analog to digital conversion on the systems circuit board in the field to the display of real time data in a web-based dashboard for the customer.Principal investigator of an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensing system that generated a dataset that could be used to predict failure modes for a particular piece of industrial equipment. I developed the physical model that represented the complex system; trained predictive models for classifying failures; set up the cloud infrastructure for hosting the model and extract, transform, load (ETL) processes; and oversaw the development of a real time dashboard that clients could use to monitor their equipment. The cloud infrastructure in AWS used IoT Core, Lambda, RDS, Elasticache, ECS, and a few other services to support the back end portion of the dashboard. The ETL processes were deployed in Lambda and as containers in ECS and were written in Python using Numpy, Pandas, PyMySQL and AWS SDK.Technical point of contact with customers, beta phase commercialization partners, and joint development agreement members for several IoT sensing systems in development.

Springfield, Missouri Area

Research associate in the flexible hybrid electronics business unit. This role required an understanding of how material properties change under certain stimuli, how to design sensing platforms to probe when an active material’s properties change, and the methods of how to fabricate the sensing platform and deposit the active material. Intrinsic material properties were investigated using methods such as Raman spectroscopy, photoluminescence spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, and scanning electron microscopy. The sensing platform was characterized using white light interferometry, optical comparison, and electrical measurements. The design of the sensor platform was all performed in AutoCAD. Root cause analysis was performed using Design of Experiments to explore relationships between intrinsic material properties and fabrication techniques to sensor performance and manufacturing yield. Testing methods were designed to characterize printed sensors for temperature, humidity, stress/strain, water monitoring, and air quality measurements. Test methods were developed into automated routines through scripting and eventually to the development of graphical user interface for real time test control. Graphical user interfaces were developed in Python utilizing Tkinter to produce executables capable of manually controlling test equipment or performing automated testing routines.

Springfield, Missouri, United States

Instructed Introduction to Physics I (PHY 123) course and lab

Springfield, Missouri, United States

Obtained the NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium (NASA-MOSGC) fellowship for my M.S. thesis research project. The funded research was focused on thin film transition metal dichalcogenide materials with applications in space travel and habitation. The research goal was to investigate the use of pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and sputtering to be able to produce the correct crystal structure that had been shown to have superconductive properties at low temperatures. Investigation of the crystal structure was performed using x-ray diffraction (XRD) and verification was performed using Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy. Secondary research projects included metal oxide nanomaterials for renewable energy and nano-bio interactions between graphene and amino acids. I also worked with several undergraduate students in teaching them how to properly use the material synthesis and analytical tools.

Springfield, Missouri, United States

Mathematics tutor employed by the BearCLAW, a tutoring center on site at Missouri State University. I worked at a drop in table where peers at all levels of mathematics could get assistance. I tutored students in classes ranging from algebra and trigonometry up to statistics, calculus, and differential equations.

Springfield, Missouri, United States

Assisted graduate research students in the materials science department at Missouri State University. Synthesized materials utilizing pulsed laser deposition (PLD), sputtering, and hydrothermal synthesis. Characterized materials utilizing scanning electron microscopy (SEM), ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy(UV-Vis), Raman spectroscopy, photoluminescence spectroscopy, and x-ray diffraction (XRD). Worked with metal oxide nanomaterials, such as copper oxide and zinc oxide, carbon nanomaterials, such as graphene and carbon nanotubes, and transition metal dichalcogenides, such as molybdenum disulfide and tungsten diselenide.

Dayton, Ohio, United States

Obtained a research fellowship at Wright Patterson Air Force Base through the Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. I collaborated with resident research scientists on site to investigate using single layer graphene, carbon nanotubes, and fullerenes for targeted drug delivery and biosensor systems. The primary interest of the research was to understand the interaction between carbonaceous defects and amino acids. The deposition of amino acids to the carbon materials was performed using drop casing and dip coating and the investigation of the interaction was performed using scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and photoluminescence spectroscopy.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Materials Science, 3.97

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Materials Science, 3.89

Activities and Societies: Society of Physics Students, Mu Alpha Theta