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Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

- Led road mapping, strategy, and engineering efforts to drive unblocked revenue and issue resolutions related to monetization products across Meta. Served ~40k internal MAUs diagnostic guidance resulting in unblocking $1B in revenue, or 12% lift from advertiser accounts served.- Directed cross-organization effort for Meta’s Diagnostic Products to unify guidance across advertiser and sales products to provide traceability and governance across recommendation frameworks. Responsible for developing 2 net-new advertiser guidances externally and integrating 70+ diagnostic issues internally.- Collaborated directly with Finance teams to build a more secure framework for self-hosted advertising. Scoped out, roadmapped, and executed a multi-half plan to provide more effective coverage, alerting, and automation on potential misuse of the system, protecting $1.1billion to Meta.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

- Drove and executed major infrastructure improvements to recommendation systems as the technical lead resulting in reducing the user error rate by 80% and product load time by 75%.- Led initiative to expand teams’ reach to the entire ad ecosystem. Grew team coverage to support diagnostic products for payments, mobile rendering issues, creative discovery, and engineering-specific ad specs. Payments alone led to $25 million of unblocked revenue each quarter.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

- Developed internal feature improvements and new products for Product & Support Operations processes and escalation workflows. Engineering lead on two new internal web applications that drive effective triage and insights gathering on critical support issues and troubleshoot mobile issues efficiently.- Expanded privacy and better engineering initiatives and investigating complex Advertiser Issues for Ads Product Platform team. Performed a deep dive analysis and performed threshold tuning of Ads Data Model alert monitoring which directly resulted in a noisy alert reduction of 10%.

San Francisco, California, Us

Technology enabled dental practices optimizing in-house virtual appointment software and a spoke and hub model to deliver a better patient experience.As an engineering consultant for Dr. H & Co / THDC, I provided direct consultation to the CTO to help develop and implement innovative technologies for the dental industry. My responsibilities included:- Collaborating with the CTO and engineering teams to design and develop a SAAS product involving appointment automation, integration and real-time sync capabilities with legacy databases, performing training and code reviews for engineers to reduce runtime bug errors.- Conducting research on the latest technologies and industry trends to ensure that our products remained cutting-edge and competitive. Examples include migrating from PHP tech stack to using Node.js with Parse, building out web sockets and live queries within back-end and front-end respectively.- Technical lead for building out zero to one product for in-house streaming virtual appointments, custom CRM for dentistry's and health care, and reminders & revenue cycle management that have processed millions of dollars in patient payments since our tools have launched into production.

Washington, Dc, Us

Quality Assurance Officer - Responsible for the training and qualifications of personnel, audits & surveillances, maintenance, and testing of critical systems on board a nuclear submarine. Operational Safety Officer - Responsible for the USS Maine's Audit & Surveillance program including all corrective actions, lessons learned, and data analysis. Developed an autonomous data analytics program to populate graphs based on the performance and issues of individual departments and divisions, track the completion status of corrective actions, and provide a report to senior leadership of the overall program health. Integrated the ship’s Quality Assurance program into a content management application that effectively monitored the continuous training and development of sailors Quality Assurance qualifications, as well as ensure the program met all certification requirements.

Washington, Dc, Us

Tactical Systems Officer - Responsible for Sonar, Torpedo, and Fire Control Divisions. Supervised the certification of the BYG-1 Combat System running the TI-16 / APB-15 Fire Control / Sonar systems. Oversaw the USS Maine's Tactical Weapon Certification that resulted in the launch of four exercise torpedoes with high precision.

Washington, Dc, Us

Solely responsible for restoring the ship’s diving program. Developed a new instruction for the conduct of the program, as well as the training, qualification, and certification for a crew of 140 sailors. In a two-month time-frame conducted 100+ certification walkthroughs and corrected 90+ discrepancies to ensure the ship could safely submerge. After the ship received large alterations during an Engineered Refueling Overhaul, engaged with naval architects to determine the exact trim and weight of the submarine to submerge for the first time in three years.

Washington, Dc, Us

Damage Control Assistant - Responsible for all shipboard damage control equipment and casualty response, daily operations, maintenance, audit & surveillance program, quality assurance, testing, and personnel management of Auxiliary Division onboard USS Maine.Directed the installation of all damage control equipment back onto the ship, coordinated the efforts of testing and certifying vital air and hydraulic systems, and oversaw the restoration of the ship’s emergency diesel generator.

Washington, Dc, Us

Electrical Officer - Responsible for daily operations, maintenance schedules, audit & surveillance program, quality assurance, testing, and personnel management of Electrical Division onboard USS Maine.Spearheaded the planning, scheduling, and execution of re-energization to the ship’s electrical distribution system after a 24-month dead electric period with no deficiencies. Supervised the installation of the ship's SVRLA battery.

Washington, Dc, Us

Nuclear Power School, Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC) - A complex, graduate-level 24-week engineering program for Naval Nuclear Power, NNPTC trains officer and enlisted students in the science and engineering fundamentals regarding the design, operation, and maintenance of naval nuclear propulsion plants.Nuclear Power Training Unit (NPTU) - NPTU trains and qualifies Sailors to operate the nuclear power plants onboard the Navy's aircraft carriers and submarines. This is done by utilizing operational reactors for extensive, hands-on practical application. This mission is performed in concert with the professionals of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) and the Naval Reactors Representatives Office (NRRO).

Laurel, Maryland, Us

Worked with APL's Applied Neuroscience division on the Hybrid Augmented Reality Multimodal Operation Neural Integration Environment (HARMONIE) project. Developed a Virtual Integrated Environment (VIE) using a robotic arm, an XBOX Kinect, and computer vision software. Using Unity and C#, determined realtime location of the arm, detected potential collisions and simulated trajectories, as well as incorporated self feeding tests, restricted 3D areas, and created speech commands.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Collaborated with a team to develop a hidden file management Android application programmed to make the encrypted file locations known when activated by a kernel driver.

Suitland, Maryland, Us

Teamed with Network Security Engineers within the Information Technology division to perform vulnerability assessments on a proposed secure wireless network.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering