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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