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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Primary clients have been an intelligence agency and the VA. For the intelligence agency I was the sole developer for a project that involved migrating legacy data to Salesforce, and handled all declarative, front- and backend work. For the VA I primarily worked with flows and used Copado to handle deployments

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Clients have included the FAA and State of TX. For the FAA I was part of an initiative to consolidate multiple apps and interfaces, which drone users were using to apply for flight clearances, into one Salesforce instance. And for the State of TX I worked on a Salesforce environment that oversaw the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Worked with PayPal to consolidate tech debt in their Salesforce org, and helped design aura and lightning web components, Apex triggers and classes, process builders and flows. Also assisted with deployments and config work.

Bowling Green, Oh

Conducted a research project that discussed the necessity of machine learning and big data when developing sophisticated, and even adequate real-time intrusion detection systems. Conducted a case study on the security vulnerabilities of an open-source machine learning project. For my Masters Project I took Android API calls as an input for neural networks and other machine learning algorithms I created to determine whether a given Android phone app was malicious or not.

Greenbelt, Md

Was tasked with compiling a dictionary of known and current cyber security threats and figuring out how likely those threats were to infect and damage a NASA network, and the consequences of such an attack, using Likelihood vs. Consequence matrices. Performed reconnaissance to get a high-level overview of different NASA network topologies, in order to quantify the severity of various risks using attack trees. Pulled data from NIST's NVD-CWE to design a mathematical model to further bolster and confirm the findings of the attack trees. Used the OSI model to detail current ransomware attacks like WannaCry and Petya.

Perrysburg, Ohio.

Troubleshot roll coater issues. Designed DOEs to optimize roll coater settings. Used JMP scripts to pull data from SQL database and performed statistical analyses.

For my semester-long senior project, my team and I designed a process to create choline chloride from various inputs, using ASPEN and other modelling software. Evaluated how expensive such an endeavor would be and determined that it would not make money.

Pune Area, India

I synthesized polymeric vesicles from 3-Pentadecylphenol (PDP), a byproduct of cashew processing, which were later used to coat anticancer drugs, to be subsequently used as drug delivery systems. I used typical chromatographic techniques to purify the products, as well as Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), NMR and MALDI for characterization.

Meitingen, Bayern (Bavaria)

I transposed programs and geometries of blast furnace models from ANSYS to COMSOL. I then used COMSOL to simulate physical processes like the inductive graphitization of coke powder, in order to determine whether it would be feasible to employ a similar process on the pilot plant level.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Academic Competitions Federation, Unite For Sight (UFS), International Buddies Program

Ms Cs, Computer Science