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Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Coordinated relocations of service members (~50-75 per week) with performance score average of ~96%.

• Instructed high school students in AP curricula (e.g., biology, literature), algebra, geometry, pre-calculus, and grade school students in pre-algebra and geometry, and college students in computer science, physics.
• Generated and customized ACT/SAT preparation strategies for high school students
• Aided post-graduate students in completion of relevant science courses (e.g., microbiology) for medical school

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Performed compositional analyses and characterization of volcanic features known as irregular mare patches (IMPs) using five different datasets: Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) visible to near-infrared data, Diviner Lunar.
• Co-advised high school student in the development of science fair project involving topographical and slope characterization of IMPs, pyroclastic deposits, and young mare basaltic flows
• Created synthetic Apollo lunar glass analogs for future spectral analyses and comparisons to pyroclastic deposits’ remote sensing signatures
• Aided in the development of space/lunar science curriculum in local K-12 programs

South Bend, Indiana Area

Notre Dame, IN

• Developed and implemented a Lagrangian stochastic Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) Model in MATLAB for sea-spray evaporation in the Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer (MABL)
• Utilized numerical integration methods to observe radial and temperature temporal evolution of particles
• Identified sensible and latent heat fluxes at air-sea interface to resolve droplet microphysics into large-scale atmospheric and oceanic numerical models

Providence, Rhode Island Area

• Improved predeveloped MATLAB codes and utilized ECHO 2 Model from MIT to improve and specify spectral analyses of satellite oceanographic data for period from 2011-2012
• Developed skeletal outlines of MATLAB codes for oceanographic spectral analyses to quantify global sea surface temperatures (SSTs), velocity gradients, and salinity
• Identified mesoscale and submesoscale ocean dynamics and turbulence regimes

Johnstown, Pennsylvania Area

University Of Notre Dame

-Tutored freshmen and sophomore students in various STEM subjects -Created presentations and information sessions for students to learn more about engineering majors

Notre Dame, IN

• Utilized transmitted polarized light microscope and photo mosaicking software to document lunar samples
• Applied electron micro-probe analyses (EMPA) to acquire major elemental compositions of mineral phases present in the lunar anorthosite crust

Westmont, Pennsylvania

The Catholic University Of America

Aided in formation of initial ideas and helped to review grant proposals for STEM programs for K-8 development

Master’S, Planetary Astronomy And Science, 3.95

Developed original coding schemas in Python and Excel to characterize ancient volcanic features on the Moon.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Environmental Engineering And Earth Sciences; Cgpa: 3.939, 3.94

Activities and Societies: Walter L. Shiltz Undergraduate Achievement Award 2019 | Dean's List, Every Semester | Tau Beta Pi Engineering.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Engineering; Cgpa: 4.0, Freshman Year