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Canada

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

As Project Manager for the McGill Robotics AUV team, I led a multi-disciplinary engineering project to design, build, and compete with a custom autonomous underwater vehicle. In this role, I oversee project life cycles, manage cross-functional teams, and ensure our project aligns with competition standards and sponsor expectations.Key Functions:- Strategize and steer the development of AUV systems integrating mechanical, electrical, and software components.- Coordinate team efforts, managing resources and timelines to meet critical project milestones.- Engage with stakeholders, sponsors, and industry partners to secure funding and resources.- Employ risk management and quality assurance to uphold design integrity and functionalityAchievements:- Top 15 at RoboSub 2023- Raised +100k worth of sponsorship- Successfully completed the team's transition to building robots to be used tools for researchers, not just for attending competitions

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Worked on designing and developing various components of the software for McGill's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle using ROS and Python. We implemented various design techniques used in robotic systems such as PIDs, Computer Vision, and state machines.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

AWS Fintech

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Developing reccomendation models and backend data engineering infrastructure

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Developed a wide variety of tools and functionalities, such as low-level drivers, system-level networking solutions, analytics tools for time series data, and core machine learning technologies such as text-to-speech and computer vision.

Barbados

Assisted researchers at the Mobile Robotics Lab with the development and deployment of intelligent robots off the west coast of Barbados. Developed roboust object detection and tacking systems.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Developed financial models and assisted with due diligence on strategic acquisition targets

Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Researched and reported on mid-large cap companies in the Canadian IT Sector. Achieved an average portfolio return of 18.3 and outperformed the S&P 500 by 11%.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Dual Dogwood Diploma