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Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Research in multidiscplinary processes in solar cell creation; integration of engineering processes focused on multi-junction space design.

• Consulting on a networking initiative to expand AguaClara chapters, increasing the number of AguaClara chapters three-fold.• Directing an eight-person team to develop marketing materials by hosting weekly meetings and individual feedback sessions.

Ithaca, New York, United States

• Operates weekly lab sessions for undergraduate physics students in ‘Nanotechnology & Nanoscience’ and ‘Lasers’• Educates students in a hands-on setting on photolithography techniques, atomic imaging methods, and laser construction.• Plans weekly office-hours to teach technical writing, review course-material, and assist with homework comprehension.• Attaining 5/5 satisfaction-ratings from all participants in lab for demonstrating effective instructional abilities.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

• Developed an algorithm that processes data from over 300,000 water treatment plants and performs predictive correlations.• Consulted on scientific policy revisions that improved estimation techniques when measuring wastewater contaminants.• Formulated remote water treatment inspection guidelines by conducting technical research and interviewing EPA regional chiefs.• Identified four counts of technical noncompliance when assisting with a remote drinking water treatment plant inspection.• Composed a manual on remote water treatment inspections and presented an instructional webinar on that content for all 50 states.

Ithaca, New York, United States

• Lead a research and design team of 107 people that focuses on international, sustainable drinking water solutions.• Collaborated with NGOs to construct and maintain gravity-powered water filtration plants that possess operating rates of up to 120 L/s and provide safe water on tap to more than 83,000 people in Honduras, India, and Nicaragua.• Managed an annual budget of $95,000 by guiding the attainment of EPA P3 Phase I and II research and design grants.• Communicated as the liaison for all sub-teams, research advisors, PR specialists, and senior university administration.• Orchestrated a collaborative effort among Ohio State University, Arizona State University, Cornell University, and Zamorano Agricultural School to improve research methods and develop a sustainable-water-supply engineering course.• Networked with Cornell leadership to coordinate and document economic plans and interests with the university.

Ithaca, New York, United States

• Identified a trend of the ‘Not-In-My-Backyard-Effect’ in biomass implementation by analyzing data from 1,000 surveys.• Programmed an algorithm for ArcGIS to automatically process, evaluate, and visualize geocoded datasets.• Performed a literature review upon related works and wrote a research paper detailing the ArcGIS algorithm’s results.

Ithaca, New York, United States

• Optimized gel electrophoresis methods for the Pollack Lab via automated image analysis, cutting calculation times by 88%.• Programed a neural network in MATLAB to automatically identify bound p-19 RNA and calculate its dissociation constant.• Compared various gel electrophoresis approaches to maximize gel electrophoresis’s effectiveness in gene-editing research.

Ithaca, New York Area

• Directed a three-person, semester-long experimental design and fabrication project focused on maximizing water flow rate.• Developed an automated system to test for optimal sedimentation-plate angle and spacing using CAD and Python analysis.