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New York, Ny, Us

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Oversee data management and statistical analysis for the Soil Health Benchmark Study, an on-farm community science project, linking management data from over 200 collaborator farms with soil health outcomes.Key Responsibilities:- Manage the data lifecycle for the study, ensuring data integrity and accessibility.- Design, code, and maintain ETL pipelines using R and Python to automate data quality control, reporting, and API integrations with platforms like Salesforce, ArcGIS, and PostgreSQL.- Conduct statistical analysis and data visualization using R to interpret long-term soil health trends and outcomes.- Communicate research findings to farmer collaborators and other sustainable agriculture stakeholders through in-person and remote presentations, as well as formal data reports.

Cambridge, Ma

Developed and maintained data pipelines to ensure the quality and accessibility of clinical data for a large-scale genetic study on neurodevelopmental disorders.Key Responsibilities:- Designed and implemented Python pipelines for quality control and transformation of clinical data collected through REDCap.- Integrated study data into a MySQL database hosted on Google Cloud, centralizing cleaned study data for reporting and analysis.- Expanded the database architecture to support additional study sites and the inclusion of new diagnostic tests.- Automated the generation of study reports and created a public-facing Google Data Studio dashboard, providing real-time insights into study recruitment.

New Haven, Ct

Wrote Python and Linux pipelines to extract and process next-gen sequencing data, supporting the creation of a liquid biopsy platform for detecting circulating tumor DNA. Key responsibilities:- Ran pipelines on high-performance computing clusters to call mutations, manipulate and align sequence data, and visually represent outputs to inform platform development.- Developed and deployed an AWS MySQL database to store processed sequence data for more efficient querying of results.- Worked with a cross-functional team of clinicians and scientists to iterate pipeline design in response to DNA barcoding design changes and to ensure biological relevance of results.

Sedona, Az

Contracted on a restoration project through the Arizona Conservation Corps in Coconino National Forest putting up gates across the forest and restoring over 1000 acres of desert impacted by motor vehicle traffic.

Master'S Degree, Soil Science And Agronomy, General

- Completed thesis analyzing long-term weed ecology data in an organic cropping systems experiment. - Used multivariate community ecology.

Bachelor'S Degree, Molecular Biology