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Denver, Colorado, United States

Denver, Colorado, United States

•Solely managed and optimized five critical ML models for a company with an annual revenue exceeding $500M.•Spearheaded the development of innovative ML models, resulting in an estimated annual savings of $10-$20M.•Proficiently deployed production-ready regression, classification, and geospatial ML models within the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem.•Conducted daily model building and testing using advanced Python packages such as scikit-learn, pytorch, and xGBoost.•Collaborated seamlessly with IT teams to design and implement end-to-end ML pipelines—from ETL processes in BigQuery to deployment in Salesforce via live endpoints in GCP.

Denver, Colorado, United States

•Led process improvement programs for multiple corporate lanes, showcasing leadership and strategic thinking skills.•Developed and implemented metrics to quantify the quality of care for patients with end-stage renal disease, demonstrating a strong analytical and data-driven approach.•Automated team documentation processes and data analysis, saving a day of work every week, highlighting a commitment to efficiency and process optimization.•Conducted quality assessments of SQL code to ensure the accuracy of data reporting, showcasing attention to detail and a commitment to data integrity.•Regularly reported quality assessments to C-suite executives and VPs for a multi-million-dollar kidney care program, demonstrating effective communication skills and an ability to convey complex insights to non-technical stakeholders.

Pasadena, California, United States

•Conducted a comprehensive assessment of technological constraints for the next generation of gravitational wave detectors, achieving predictive analysis accuracy greater than 95%.•Optimized scripts for the efficient download of over 3 TB of optical imaging data from three archive servers, saving 4 hours per run.•Created and analyzed imaging data products, performed precision measurements on calibrated images, and assessed temporal brightness variations of more than 700 sources of interest.•Synthesized randomized, simulated datasets to assess statistical significance of results, demonstrating a strong analytical approach to data interpretation.•Leveraged statistical methods to assess the compatibility of source variability with technological constraints, increasing the ability to make informed decision-making and strategy development by 20%.

Los Angeles, California, United States

•Diagnosed statistical anomalies making up 0.05% of an unexplored infrared imaging dataset of 3000+ sources of interest, showcasing a keen eye for identifying and addressing data irregularities.•Pioneered the development of new data reduction and analysis pipelines for multi-wavelength imaging data, creating a new method of analysis and improving anomaly detection by 10%.•Engineered a Python data analysis framework to seamlessly combine imaging data from two datasets.•Conducted Multiple Linear Regression on the data products, unveiling trends and patterns across datasets, contributing to a deeper understanding of the underlying data.•Applied sophisticated statistical techniques including Gaussian Mixture Modeling and K-Means on a 12-dimensional dataset of 3000+ sources, discerning 3 clusters within the dataset that had not previously been discovered.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Collaborating with a team of 15 scientists to build upon the cutting edge of Galactic Center research.• Creating a data analysis pipeline to categorize the luminosity variability of 3000+ stars by using a log-likelihood, polynomial regression technique.• Identifying and solving failures in the Java data reduction pipeline which corrected major data defects for 15 people across the collaboration.• Creating, manipulating, and updating MySQL databases containing 15 years of stellar data for 10,000+ sources.

• Managed and distributed club-wide finances for the Society of Physics Students at UCLA.• Pitched budgets to the department to procure funding.• Served on the board driving the direction of the club, coordinating events and projects, and recruiting new students.

Remote

• Engineered hundreds of telephone pole replacements and estimated finances for hardware transfers for AT&T and PG&E. • Communicated across joint pole engineers at AT&T as well as subcontractor management at AFL.• Completed jobs to AT&T specifications at an agreed upon price point.

Los Angeles, California, United States

•Reduced radio data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile with Professor Mark Morris. •Identified properties of blazars via the radio data reduction package CASA developed by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.