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• Mapped financial disclosure standards to existing data and conducted market research to develop new product ideas
• Created user personas using interviews/online research to create/iterate mock-ups and understand user pain points

• One of less than five percent of applicants admitted to seven-week technical training program
• Developed a neural network to predict flight delays

Falmouth, MA

• Built pipelines for parallel processing of geospatial data and created climate risk indices for financial managers
• Moved from HPC cluster to cloud computing for project, managed user permissions, and created virtual machines

• Create data visualizations on real time water data for the Northwestern United States to promote use of real-time monitoring of water quality.

Chicago, IL

• Identified enumerators that needed retraining by writing data quality checks in Stata for randomized controlled trials
• Produced 2 communications products for potential project funders

Washington, D.C.

• Defined use cases for a web tool that compared integrated assessment models for researchers and policymakers
• Researched the progress G20 countries are making towards decarbonization and evaluated the economic impact through data analysis

Singapore

• Developed dynamic data visualizations on building energy use with Java D3 for a building concept to increase urban density and energy efficiency in Southeast Asian cities.
• Identified most accurate assessments of energy use and identified errors in data extraction process from InfluxDB, a time series database.

Austin, Texas Area

• Quantified environmental and macroeconomic benefits of potential infill development.
• Created interactive map of potential infill site for real estate developers using MapBox.
• Authored a white paper on location efficient mortgages as a method to discourage sprawl in Austin.

Austin, Texas Area

• Created energy models for LEED certified residential buildings using Trane Trace 700.
• Verified building designs for code compliance using COMCheck software.

Austin, Texas Area

Master Of Science - Ms, Environmental Science

Bachelor'S Degree

Activities and Societies: Senate of College Councils, Texas Green Tours, LeaderShape Institute, ASHRAE, Architectural Engineering Institute

Exchange

Data Mining Game Theory Economy and Space