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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States

Developed chatbot API implementing GPT prompt engineering and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to provide informal life insurance quotes aligned with underwriting guidelines, streamlining initial customer inquiries.Created a financial news aggregation application integrating external news APIs and web scraping, leveraging GPT prompting to deliver concise summarized financial reports for asset management associates.Developed an analytics application running monthly on batches of customer data, with automated reporting on prevalent customer complaint topics; leveraged RAG and prompt engineering during the research phase to mine and analyze complaint topics, supporting targeted customer service improvements.Served as Tech Lead for the development of four Flask APIs implementing generative AI, spearheading daily operations and driving two projects through successful releases to AWS environments. Provided strategic technical leadership, fostering team collaboration and ensuring alignment with business objectives over two years.

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States

United States

- Implementing caching middleware with Python to recommend user content using Machine Learning- Implementing HTTP Services and Google Maps methods in Angular fronten

United States

• Developed full-stack web application individually to report performance in enterprise Hadoop cluster using Python, Flask, JavaScript, and HTML/CSS over the course of 7 weeks• Used NumPy and pandas to quickly process large volume of systems data from enterprise API• Cut team’s cost of manual reporting of batch production job status by $20,000 annually• Implemented Selenium automated testing and Python unit tests to ensure software quality• Followed Agile SDLC methodology to develop application with small team of senior software engineers in 10 weeks

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Analyzed production job runtime status across 20+ internal clients using Python • Developed Python, YAML scripts to build out enterprise RedHat Ansible automation infrastructure• Produced informational presentation to introduce automation process to 70 internal clients• Participated in Agile Scrum team to learn SDLC methodology and CI/CD principles

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Cleaned and reformatted very large dataset containing millions of political tweets and news articles• Analyzed NLP preprocessing techniques such as TF-IDF and n-grams with Python using NLTK, spaCy andregular expressions• Conducted analysis of Topic Modeling algorithms like LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation)• Visualized findings using matplotlib and seaborn

Philadelphia, Pa

- Oriented hundreds of new students into the class of 2023- Developed vital professional communication skills by leading groups of 20-30 new students per orientation session- Built teamwork abilities by working with a team of 35 other members of the orientation staff- Improved ability to execute under high pressure and respond to urgent matters and emergencies- Educated on social justice, diversity and inclusion as a part of job training

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Data Science With A Concentration In Computation And Modeling, 3.8; Cum Laude, Distinction In Major

Activities and Societies: Honors Program | Temple Data Science Club Steering Committee | Temple Mathematics Club | Owl Team Alumni

High School Diploma, 3.7

Activities and Societies: - Starting Catcher on Varsity Baseball Team - Section Leader in Wind Ensemble - Peer Tutor at Academic Success.