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British Columbia, Canada

I created and maintained over 20 ETL pipelines ingesting data into the data platform from sources like Salesforce, Marketo, LinkedIn, Optimizely, BambooHR, Statuspage, and Netsuite. Creating these pipelines gave me more experience with carefully handling PII and People data, writing and fulfilling SLAs, and working across teams to design solutions for complex data situations.In addition to building and refactoring data pipelines, I played a key role in migrating the Data Platform's data warehouse from Redshift to Databricks. I helped design a plan for performing the migration of existing data and ETLs, and I took the lead on creating Airflow operators to process data for both Redshift and Databricks.I also led the Data Platform's adoption of Fivetran to ingest data into the datalake and data warehouse. This made data ingestion easier by eliminating the need for custom ingestion code for over 10 data sources.I worked on-call shifts, where I answered internal customers' data questions, investigated data anomalies, and fixed errors in critical pipelines at all hours of the day and night.

Greater Seattle Area

As a Data Systems Engineer II I performed both data engineering and data science work. As an engineer, I set up data warehouses, created ETL pipelines, and wrangled data for 19 different projects. As a data scientist, I created and trained deep learning models using PyTorch for image classification, deep reinforcement learning, and natural language processing. I have experience with the entire lifecycle of data, from ingestion to ETL to warehousing to using it for machine learning and modelling. I led the software engineering and data engineering teams for 3 projects, as well as mentored 3 junior engineers and hosted 6 interns.I managed a team of 6 engineers and data scientists in delivering a production-level ETL and text analytics pipeline for biosurveillance, which processes hundreds of thousands of streamed news articles per day. This specific project was acknowledged in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Bulletin for project's contribution to COVID-19 research. I have 2 copyrights for work I did at PNNL. One copyright is for a data collection system I designed and implemented, which (with the consent of the user) tracks mouse movements and clicks on a computer screen. The other copyright is for a website and database that I created for deep underground neutrino research (www.radiopurity.org).While at PNNL I was nominated to attend SEDP (Scientist and Engineer Development Program), an educational bootcamp for future leaders at PNNL. At the bootcamp, I strengthened my leadership, communication, and team management skills.Co-authored 4 R&D project proposals, one of which was awarded $750K for 3 years of work.Co-authored a paper published in JMIR (Journal for Medical Internet Research). My work on this paper addressed the data pipeline I created to process text data for COVID-19 research.Interviewed 30+ people for software engineer and data scientist positions.

Western Washington University

Volunteering 3 hours a week to tutor underclassmen in introductory/intermediate Computer Science classes with a goal of helping with problem solving skills and learning essential Computer Science concepts.

Bellingham, Washington Area

Worked on back-end projects highly involved with data structures and databases. Projects included speech-to-text applications using an artificial intelligence service and database indexing, writing, and reading. Strengthened skills in full stack development, Git, CI/CD, Jenkins, unit tests, SQL, and production deployment.

Colter Bay Village, Grand Teton National Park, Wy

Performed supervisory tasks such as ordering supplies, organizing inventory, and orchestrating jobs among coworkers.Served coffee products and pastries, strove to provide the experience of a lifetime for guests, worked fluidly with a team of coworkers and managers.

Worked to provide superior customer service to guests at the Paradise Inn CaféPrepared coffee drinks and food for guestsRefined skills in cashiering, store maintenance, stocking, cleaning, and working together successfully with my peers

Gig Harbor, Wa

Acquired countless valuable skills involving customer service, cashiering, watercraft rental legality, and maintaining a clean and functional work space. Rented out kayaks, stand-up paddle boards, canoes and powerboats, in addition to serving as a kayak tour guide and Kids Kayak Camp instructor for three sequential summers.

Bachelor’S Degree, Spanish

Activities and Societies: Sigma Delta Pi Honor SocietyGraduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Association for Women in Computing, Intersect Tech club, ACM, Lead ACM Tutor, Computer Science Big.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Washington Aerospace Scholar, Vice President of National Honor Society, Cross Country Captain, Track & Field.