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Richmond, Virginia, United States

Direct and oversee the work of the Analytics Center of Excellence's (J6DA) Emerging Capabilities Branch (J6DAC) consisting of Operations Research Analysts, Data Scientists, and Statisticians who specialize in conducting and supporting complex operations research studies.Senior technical consultant in business support areas relating to operations research.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Received the Superior Civilian Service Award for work migrating the ACE Data Warehouse and Integrated Data Bank to the DLA Data Lake, including the provision of detailed, line-by-line process code to the Hadoop team, and working through each process with the developers to enable code development for DLA Data Lake. Independently tested each process.

Richmond, VA

• Lead analyst and subject matter expert in fraud for the conversion of HSBC accounts to Capital Onesystems, identifying over 1900 critical data elements and mapping them across data sources tofacilitate a seamless.
• Improved fraud decline rules by analyzing decline rates and fraud loss across several key transactiontypes reducing fraud loss by approx. $80k per month and reducing declines, which are a key customerdissatisfier, by.
• Managed the migration effort and development of a new archival system to transfer approx. 18TB oftape archives to a Teradata Cold Storage environment allowing GUI based interaction for user initiatedarchive requests.
• Utilized programming and analytical tools including SAS, SQL, Teradata and Unix to formulateanalytical models and develop complex data structures to support business insights and strategy.

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Developed an innovative large scale refining process to bring platinum to industry standard purity levels without the use of solvent extraction.
• Managed the performance of the chemical refining laboratory including laboratory assistants, process equipment, and chemical supplies.
• Improved multiple processes throughout the refinery including the introduction of new fluxes, better assay techniques, higher yield from low grade material processing, and faster stone removal procedures for jewelry.
• Managed the zero discharge wastewater treatment facility and air scrubbers to recover all metals exiting the facility through drains and fume hoods.

Norfolk, Virginia Area

• Reliably carried out all field testing operations under strict time and location requirements as well as maintenance and calibration of test equipment.
• Performed data analysis across a wide range of variables to determine contributing factors of impaired water quality in the James River and Chesapeake Bay.
• Demonstrated the accuracy and precision of field testing results with quality control samples including field blanks and field duplicates prepared for analysis in the Central Environmental Laboratory.

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics, 3.8

Physics