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Evans, Ga, Us

Columbia, Md, Us

• Developed custom API wrappers to seamlessly integrate and extract data from diverse sources, enabling comprehensive data analysis• Built and led a high-performing data science team, establishing efficient workflows to deliver data-driven solutions• Documented a global system of systems architecture through a comprehensive system diagram• Spearheaded team adoption of Scrum, utilizing Confluence for centralized documentation and Jira for agile task management with visual boards and reporting• Coordinated the implementation of distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry for a complex worldwide system, enabling comprehensive observability and faster troubleshooting

Reston, Virginia, Us

• Developed filtering analytic with a dynamically generated user interface to fit user-specific structured and semi-structured data• Created ingest and visualization pipelines to produce daily social media trend reporting• Aggregated network and device security scans to compile a comprehensive database of the Army’s connected devices• Developed parsers, field mappings, and data standardization models for data ingest pipelines• Contributed to the development of a scalable managed attribution and source obfuscation web scraping utility

Huntsville, Al, Us

• Lead the development and management of analytic projects focusing on network analysis and geospatial intelligence• Developed recommendation analytic that saved over 6600 analyst hours in its first six months• Built full-stack data science analytic that increased data processing volume by 875% and reduced reporting workload by 400%• Developed analytic to programmatically scrape websites based on behavioral criteria• Provide custom data science solutions for technical and non-technical clients through Python and Spark analytics• Developed tradecraft to identify exploitation opportunities and produced analytics to automate the process for future operations• Developed the user interfaces for, and the analytics behind, tools used to streamline the identification of target technologies• Designed and published tools to query APIs, join, enrich, and display data for various use cases• Developed automated identification and report generating pipeline based on network activity

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Implemented predictive analysis of complex real-time geospatial and signal patterns • Communicated closely with a global team to support worldwide collection resources• Executed time-critical reporting of high profile events and briefed events to senior leadership• Conducted technical network and social computing analysis

Fairfax, Virginia , Us

• Designed and conducted experiments to evaluate qualitative measures of airline pilots use ofinterfaces and procedures to find optimal communication modality.• Edited and produced an online instructional training system for airline pilots.• Scheduled participants and conducted user error prediction experiments.• Evaluated participant data and conducted statistical analysis on study results• Analyzed and tested physical and software interfaces and recommended user experience improvements

Ma, Human Factors And Applied Cognition

B.A., Psychology