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Houston, Texas, United States

- Utilized subject matter expertise to resolve key Power BI issues identified by the Integration Team, which saved the client $7,000+ in consultation and implementation fees by eliminating the need for a 3rd party vendor- Designed and implemented 5-10 Power BI and Azure DevOps reporting dashboards using DAX queries and Power Query to provide clean, usable data for KPIs and key budget and project timeline decision making- Restructured and optimized 5-7 existing Power BI large datasets by removing duplicate tables and rewriting queries, which improved the speed of data refreshes and queries by 50% and saved the support team 1-2 hours a week in debugging refresh errors

Houston, Tx

- Conducted review and gathered integration requirements of AMI gas and electric meters for a Fortune 500 company by utilizing Maximo Entity Relationship Document (ERD), SAP expertise, and SQL- Utilized SAP Information Steward, SAP Data Services, and SQL to complete data migration activities including data extractions, quality assessments, and transformations on millions of master data records- Led a fit-gap workshop initiative comprised of conducting client/vendor interviews to capture key business requirements, helping to define project scope, and developing a project plan for the design phase- Managed strict deadlines of data mock loads, which resulted in 98% of timely completion of migration tasks and estimated turnaround time of 24 hours on defects - Decreased purchase order completion time by 75% by developing SAP Fiori applications to improve procurement processes - Implemented an Excel automated tracker to retrieve updates for a EUC migration, eliminating the effort to manually update PowerPoint slides, saving site managers 10+ hours a month- Designed key performance indicators and metrics for the project lifecycle of a Fortune 500 energy company

Greater Memphis Area

• Instructed classroom of 15 students ranging from 9th to 12th grade in introductory computer science concepts, mainly focused on cryptography, software languages and computer organizations• Reviewed 50-60 homework assignments, quizzes, and Python programs and provided feedback to ensure curriculum comprehension

Memphis, Tn

• Developed and implemented an educational module and tool to teach software testing for a class of 42 undergraduates.• Independently supervised multiple computer science labs and provided additional guidance to help students understand the lab assignments.

Memphis, Tn

• Designed the website for the Human Software Engineering lab and implemented the site using WordPress.• Developed a NLP (natural language processing) program, using SentiWordNet and Wordnet, to measure sentiments in political articles and outputted results in a csv file.• Conducted qualitative analysis of video data and assisted with writing and editing research papers.

Oxford, Ms

• Designed a database for an XML testing tool that stored more than 100 XML files with multiple input fields• Served as the primary project liaison and managed communication among 8-10 developers, project managers, and end-users• Directed a presentation to showcase an XML testing tool to the senior leadership team and fellow interns

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Master’S Degree