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Albuquerque, NM, US

Albuquerque-Santa Fe Metropolitan Area

• Designed, developed, and deployed new features for a credits and ticketing e-commerce platform generating $100M+ in annual sales.
• Administered a key state management API and led the migration from MongoDB to Postgres, enhancing the experience for 2M+ annual visitors.
• Delivered department-wide presentations on data privacy. Served as a key member of the Data Governance Committee and the AI Governance Committee.
• Led the development of the mobile app backend, enabling personalized, gamified, in-exhibit experiences for users.
• Solely developed backend and middleware solutions, rapidly prototyping integrations with ultraband Bluetooth beacons, mobile devices, and AVL interactions to enhance exhibit engagement.
• Delivered department-wide talks on Git best practices, creating comprehensive documentation, PR templates, and standards to improve team workflows and collaboration.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

• Worked within a cross-functional team of 10+ software engineers and specialists to drive backend services for the company, developing of several backend endpoints in Java with Spring Boot to improve efficiencies of.
• Led a series of process optimization initiatives to streamline workflow for 800+ hours of manual tasks, leveraging tools such as Cypress.io to automate processes that saved over $45K in labor costs per year for the team.
• Trained 2 developers for Cypress end-to-end testing, coaching employees to ensure the team exceeds all performance metrics while maintaining 100% staff retention.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Collaborated with a cross-functional team of 5 team members to drive research and development, serving as the primary coach and mentor for 2 undergraduate students to communicate best practices.
• Led a series of initiatives focused on networking air quality sensors, analyzing 50+ data points per second for each sensor to mitigate risks that ensured project outcomes were met.
• Published 5 technical papers on a variety of technical topics, working with 50+ academic and industry professionals to ensure 100% data accuracy while clearly communicating information to readers.
• Tutored 150+ students while teaching undergraduate level courses for 4 semesters, developing several lecture materials and assignmentsSpring 2021: TA for Quantum ComputingFall 2020: TA for Quantum ComputingSpring 2020.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Managed and coordinated a suite of projects for a team of 8+ interns, delivering and presenting technical requirements to senior leaders to help drive over $7.8MM in annual revenue for the organization.
• Spearheaded the development of a rapid proof-of-concept to secure an additional $40K in research and development funding, meeting 100% of project deadlines within a condensed 10-week timeline.
• Partnered with software and electrical engineering professionals to train on data science and engineering industry standards, building relationships within the department to develop technical expertise.Tech: Nvidia.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

- Extracted and relocated dozens of Gopher Tortoises – a keystone species- Surveyed, trapped, and removed dozens of invasive Tegu lizards from South HillsboroughCounty- Conducted vegetative wetland surveys

Guilin, Guangxi, China

- Led groups of up to 18 children, aged between 8-16 years old.- Ran community service programs with middle school students installing a municipal water line to a local school, garbage cleanup, and trail maintenance.- Led vertical, water, and land activities.- Taught lessons on climbing technique, kayaking technique, survival skills.

Tallahassee, Florida

- Prepared cell cultures and expressed and purified proteins- Used various experimental techniques, including florescence spectroscopy, to study the thermodynamic properties of proteins- Revealed new insights into the nature of protein-binding

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, 4.0

Non-Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Member of Society of Competitive ProgrammersGathered necessary prerequisites for graduate school admittance.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

Activities and Societies: Minor in Mathematics, Member of Sigma Pi Sigma, Completed an Honors Research Thesis