Hello, my name is Benjamin Castro, I am a student at the University of Cincinnati, double majoring in Information Systems and Operations Management. Born and raised in Cleveland, OH, I had the privilege of attending St. Ignatius High School before moving to Cincinnati to continue my education.I have had the pleasure of working for several interesting companies doing a wide variety of tasks, from creating automation tools with Lubrizol to building chicken coops strong enough to fend off hungry mongooses in Hawaii. Along the way, I have developed my skills with tools such as SAP and PowerShell and deepened my understanding of project management through practical experience. A project of note that I have worked on was creating a program to automate the construction of virtual machines. I was part of a two-person team within the Hybrid Datacenters team at the Lubrizol Corporation. For backend code, we utilized the Hashicorp Packer tool to automate the creation of machine images. My primary role was designing the UI and the testing environment in PowerShell so the tool could easily be run from any team member's machine. By the end of my three-month term, we had a working program that could build a Virtual Machine in 7 minutes instead of the 1-2 hours it took to do it manually. Additionally, I learned a lot while in Hawaii about laying out and managing projects. I was alongside four other co-ops, and we were given several areas around the farm to tackle. We were rehabilitating the farm from about two years of severe neglect, and in Hawaii, that means many overgrowths. We worked in many different areas, from researching and developing a pruning strategy for the coffee trees to land reclamation and development, often battling nature at every step. You could imagine the environment posed unique challenges requiring creative solutions, making the whole experience memorable. Please get in touch with me at castroba@uc.mail.edu if you are interested in getting more information.