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Hicksville, New York, United States

Hicksville, New York, United States

• Attend monthly meetings of the New York State Reliability Council Installed Capacity Subcommittee (NYSRC ICS) as a secondary representative for PSEG LI. Provide comprehensive meeting minutes and updates to department management.• Manage a master file that aggregates actual monthly energy generation and cost data of Long Island Generators by fuel/unit type.• Prepare accurate report of carbon emissions by fuel type for submission to Edison Electric Institute (EEI)’s Electric Company Carbon Emissions and Electricity Mix Report Database.• Utilize GE Multi-Area Reliability Simulation (MARS) and the NYSRC Policy 5 Unified Methodology to conduct internal studies on the impact of grid system changes on NYCA installed reserve margin and Long Island minimum locational capacity requirements.• Assist in building short- and long-term electric production cost model databases in GE Multi-Area Production Simulation (MAPS) software.• Support the team in developing an annual fuel and power purchase budget for the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA).• Develop Python scripts to extract and analyze data from MAPS and MARS output files, improving data analysis efficiency.• Collaborate with other teams in the department to fulfill data requests and support cross-functional projects.

• Write and submit applications for product certification by State Water Resource departments.

Farmingdale, New York, United States

• Provided technical expertise and product suggestions to potential and current clients who submitted RFPs for water body protection project.• Tracked and followed-up on all current sales leads to ensure project progression and further develop relationships with key clients and distributors.• Responded to phone calls and emails from customers regarding product pricing and availability.• Continued to lead Research & Development projects.

Farmingdale, New York, United States

Design Projects: • Worked collaboratively with municipalities and partner engineering firms to provide custom designs for centralized and decentralized stormwater treatment devices to be used for stormwater management projects. • Utilized SolidWorks to create models and draft engineering drawings for the manufacturing team. • Utilized SheetCam to provide G-Code programs for sheet metal parts cut on plasma table.• Designed a patented full capture connector pipe screen device.Research & Development Projects:• Further developed Fabco’s proprietary antimicrobial stormwater filtration media for reducing total coliforms, enterococci, and E. Coli levels. Implemented revised manufacturing process and quality assurance program.• Designed, prototyped, and tested a new cartridge-based device for capturing very fine sediments. This device was approved by the Philadelphia Water Department to be on the list of products allowed for projects in the Pennsylvania area.• Wrote report for performance of sediment cartridge and maintained extensive lab notebook for R&D of FabGuard media

Hauppauge, New York, United States

• Created engineering drawings for ASTM Level 3 Surgical mask.• Wrote manufacturing and machine maintenance procedures for mask production.• Integral in creating quality management system for surgical mask production and working with third party laboratory to have ASTM Level 3 Surgical Mask design tested for 510(k) Premarket Notification clearance.

New York, New York

Fire Project: • Worked in lab assistant team that aided in a multi-phase project that sought to characterize the performance of high-strength steel components under high-temperature loading conditions.• Built thermocouple instrumented steel wire strands for experiments focused on the heat transfer analysis of a full-scale, suspension bridge main cable.• Wrote daily progress reports on inventory for project and the meeting of milestones.Independent Research: • Project objective was to investigate the annealing effects of high-strength steel wire after exposure to internal temperature conditions of Main Cable after fire (i.e., long duration exposure to 100-500°C temperatures). • Used MATLAB to ascertain mechanical properties of samples and produce stress-strain curves. Suspension Bridge Wire Testing:• Performed bridge cable health monitoring testing for New York City bridges.• Worked in LaTeX to compile, format and review full project data report.Commercial Projects: • Aided lab staff in rigging destructive and nondestructive materials testing for large-scale samples such as suspension bridge cables, construction scaffolding, rebar, and concrete samples for both researchers and industry testing.

Brookhaven, New York, United States

• Worked with Dr. Rahul Sharma during the summer of 2015; learning about the research engineering design process and studying the test building aspects of Neutrino Detector experiments• Designed a mock neutrino detector project from ground up for presentation at end of program

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biomedical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Columbia QuestBridge Scholars Chapter

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society, FIRST Robotics, Concert Choir, Future Business Leaders of America, Political Action.