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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

● Performed data analysis on substation circuit breaker maintenance intervals and failure rates to reduce cost by optimizing the equipment maintenance strategy● Developed an algorithm to specify a customized, time-based maintenance schedule for the four highest failure rate breaker types among 14,000 total breakers● Delivered final recommendation to reduce utility maintenance costs and staffing, while preserving substation reliability

Joliet, Il

•Designed safety procedure for transformer testing to ensure employee safety when working with high voltage devices•Performed testing procedure on substation transformers to ensure voltage would be properly stepped down at substations •Oversaw project to replace a broken substation transformer with a portable transformer to manage voltage load at substation•Updated substation location spreadsheet to improve ease of access to 100+ substations •Developed and presented idea to migrate paper substation prints to a mobile platform to increase efficiency while testing equipment

Chicago, Il

•Perform Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques to classify various data sets for image and movement recognition•Design architecture of convolutional neural network to mimic brain learning patterns to classify dog and cat images•Manipulate signals using filters and zero crossing to process and classify time series data•Develop Confusion Matrix and Receiver Operating Characteristic to determine accuracy of techniques •Presented research at 2018 Summer Research Intern Expo

●Manage and collaborate with assistant referees to maintain game flow and efficiency●Control the crowd, coaches, and the match to ensure sportsmanlike behavior●Taught young players rules and regulations to encourage proper game play and behavior