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Tampa, Fl, Us

Tampa, Florida, United States

Lead a team in refactoring the data pipeline at the core of our organization's capabilities. Using good OOP principles and deliberate design choices, reduced codebase from ~12000 lines to ~1700 lines while avoiding breaking changes and facilitating maintenance and expansion of the codebase.Rapidly expanded capabilities of our core data pipeline on short notice, maintaining quality standards while fulfilling urgent requirements at the fastest pace the organization had seen.Designed experiments and used sophisticated statistical techniques to formally determine best courses of action for the organization. Created robust test suites for thousands of lines of Python code.Interfaced with third-party data engineers to evaluate the capability of their software to serve organizational needs.

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Reveal trends in the social media activities of Russian dissident Aleksandr Navalny through web scraping, statistical analysis, and data visualization.

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Conducted multinomial logistic regression with cross-validation in R to create a model classifying Russian-language Telegram posts according to theme.Connected data trends to events of the War in Ukraine with findings presented at multiple research conferences.

Kissimmee, Florida, United States

Ran the maintenance stockroom, ordered and processed parts in HxGN EAM, networked with suppliers, and coordinated between maintenance staff and management as a stockroom parts coordinator. Created detailed SOPs for the role and onboarded successor.Identified key sources of waste in the production process and created waste reduction proposals projected to save $50,000/year.Automated overtime assignment in Excel VBA to reduce HR workload while emphasizing user-friendliness.

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Taught English as a Second Language classes of up to 15 students from around the world. Planned lessons both independently and in conjunction with coworkers and superiors. Hosted cultural immersion activities for students.