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Maryland, United States

• As the Data Ingestion Engineer with Nextonic Solutions, I build data pipelines for the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In this role, I:
• Design, develop, and implement efficient data ingestion (ETL/ELT) processes, primarily with Python;
• Validate the data to ensure accuracy, consistency, and integrity at every stage of the ingestion process;
• Automate workflows to minimizing the need for manual monitoring or routine interaction;
• Manage, monitor, and optimize databases (Postgres, MySQL) to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability;
• Implement best practices for indexing, query optimization, and database tuning to ensure optimal query performance.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

As the Data Engineer in the District Attorney's, I:- build infrastructure tools and libraries to help our researchers and data analysts easily build reports and conduct analyses.- moved the office to Apache Airflow from outdated crons and maintain automated systems for ETL, data validation, and reporting. - create clean, flexible, continually updated data.

Greater Philadelphia Area

My office developed, managed, implemented, and oversaw projects and initiatives that relate to establishing effective data governance policies and ensuring data quality of school district administrative data. Sitting adjacent to the division of Information Technology, my work was divided between proactive governance policy development, analytics that.

Greater Philadelphia Area

In the Planning and Evidence-Based Support Office, I helped school leaders set measurable goals, monitor progress, and use evidence in the decision-making surrounding data outcomes. This included working in continuous improvement cycles, building programmatic tools and reports to facilitate progress monitoring, performing ad-hoc analyses to assist.

Rutgers Graduate School Of Applied And Professional Psychology, Piscataway, NJ

The School System Improvement Project seeks to help improve teacher and school effectiveness. It is funded through a $40 Million US Department of Education Teacher Incentive Fund grant to deploy new measures of effectiveness in schools over through course of five years. In this role, I built a data management systems to analyze, integrate, quality control.

Newark, NJ

For this internship during my doctoral work, I aggregated, integrated, and analyzed teacher and student data available through several databases (including PowerSchool and ADP), spreadsheets, and other data sources. I conducted interviews to understand current practices and uses of data. I used R/Shiny, Python, and Perl to conduct analyses.

4444 Forest Park Ave, Saint Louis, MO 63110

At TGI, my role as a senior, full-stack software developer helped to produce high quality genetic sequence for projects that included the Human Genome Project and The Cancer Genome Atlas. This included the full lifecycle of software and database development, project management duties ranging from requirements gathering and problem formation to group.

Setiu, Terengganu, Malaysia

Teaching Malaysian students English Language and Literature.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Educational Theory, Organization, And Policy, 4.0

My research focuses on (A) the organizational impacts and outcomes of teacher and school effectiveness measures and (B) data and evidence.

Master’S Degree, Education, 4.0

Coursework focused heavily on mixed methods across the social sciences and includes multivariate statistics, social network analysis.

Bachelor’S Degree, English Literature ; Education, 3.61

Activities and Societies: Arts and Sciences College Honors ; Resident Advisor; Sigma Tau Delta English Honorary ; National Residence Hall.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science, 3.61

Activities and Societies: Graduated with college honors