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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Performing validations and reviews of the Bank's models across all divisions, and performing governance tasks related to upkeep and inventorying of these models.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Upheld the information barriers for the firm through addition and monitoring of controls:● Added products and entities to restricted trading lists● Coordinated with deal teams to keep various projects and deals up to date to ensurecontrols remain appropriate● Worked with the business to determine if they possess MNPI that is relevant to ongoingdeals so appropriate controls are in place.● Worked with stakeholders from the business to update Watch List to ensure informationbarriers are in place● Assisted firm employees with personal trading when they are restricted from certaintradesReviewed firm capital policy to ensure compliance with federal and international regulations:● Conducted line-by-line review of firm policy to ensure there were no gaps and that the policy was clear and in line with relevant regulations● Managed weekly reporting of regulatory updates, and worked with controllers to ensure relevant items had been actioned and reported to senior management● Prepared materials such as slide decks, pdfs, agendas, etc. for use in Capital Policy Oversight Committee meetings, with Senior Risk Officer and other firm senior management in attendance

Lehi, Utah, United States

HiFi Finance is a startup that operates a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending and borrowing protocol on the Ethereum and Polygon blockchains.· Worked with company executives and backend engineers to determine potential threats andvulnerabilities to the lending protocol, and developed mathematical models (in Python) and businesssolutions to these issues.· Working with backend engineers, identified scenarios where user input could trigger a bug in the code that caused technical issues, such as overflow, and financial problems, such as negative interest rates, and developed technical and practical solutions to circumvent or prevent the protocol from reverting due to these scenarios. My solutions have been implemented in the frontend and backend code of the protocol.· Applied SQL and performed queries to create a dashboard that tracks relevant market data and statistics to be presented and used by company executives.

Lehi, Utah, United States

Web Application PenTester thru the NetSPI-U program.

Rexburg, Idaho, United States

Using LIDAR Point Cloud data, merge and prepare large data sets for 3D annotation. Post-processing of annotation data using custom scripts and programming tools (Python, pptk, sklearn, and other packages). Collaborating with my annotation team and the application developers, improving the overall process to stitch and annotate the processes for machine learning algorithms. Will assist developers in additional algorithms and help to improve quality of annotation software.

Provo, Utah, United States

Worked with faculty to prove the Four Color Theorem using mathematical graph theory. Independent and collaborative work included: -using mathematical strategies such as induction to prove a theorem holds -understanding and developing other theorems and lemmas to help prove the main result -expressing arguments in a clear from to prepare findings for publicationResult is a proof that to color a map of discrete regions in a way that all adjacent regions are different colors, only four colors are needed. This will lead to publication and has applications in areas such as statistics and computer science. Publication link will be provided once published.

Provo, Utah, United States

Teaching assistant for Calculus 1 and Multivariable Calculus courses. Supported and reinforced the learning of complex mathematical ideas for 50+ students. Utilized interpersonal skills to patiently explain technical concepts, such as integration, derivation, vector calculus, and dimensional geometry. Proficient in online grading software used to upload and annotate homework assignments.

Rexburg, Idaho, United States

As a contractor to the RBDC, annotated 2D warehouse pallet images for Lineage Logistics that is used to create machine learning algorithms to fully automate pallet identification and movement in cold storage warehouses. Participating in a team, we collaborated on basic machine learning tutorials each week, working with the lead engineer.

Rexburg, Idaho, United States

Completed work on a team of three research assistants and one supervising junior analyst to research product development for Emerson Electric US (client of RBDC), and performed market analysis for Emerson to determine market segmentation, competitors in order to plan entry into commercial HVAC market. Our findings provided valuable market data and actionable plans to the client.

Springville, Utah, United States

A conscientious effort in customer engagement led to progressive responsibilities at the recreation center. In charge of processing fitness memberships, solving customer concerns, and equipment operation and upkeep. As a shift lead, supervised 2-3 other front desk employees. Additional responsibilities as a shift lead included performing opening and closing duties such as opening up areas of the center, communicating with facility manager regarding customer issues and operational problems, and counting/recording money.