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Data Intelligence & Machine Learning Infrastructure & Engineering ServicesMicrosoft Digital

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

- Working with Prof. Lewis Tseng & Prof. Shuo Niu to design a full-stack video streaming system that utilizes HCI, Cloud Computing and AI/ML to reduce carbon emission without lowering user utility.- Collect and analyze YouTube dataset to quantify and understand user behavior.- Automate the process to identify strategies to store and serve videos in a more efficient and environment-friendly manner.

Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States

- Collaborates with faculty and 1-2 other TAs in lectures and lab sessions to facilitate student learning- Serves as Subject Matter Expert in course material, helping students with their understanding of relevant programming concepts in online course forums and during regularly scheduled office hours

Data Intelligence AI/ML Team- Leveraged Semantic Kernel, Azure OpenAI, and large language models (GPT) to build a selective/sharable memories plugin for a Network Infrastructure Copilot Application (NiC) utilized by Microsoft network practitioners.- Implemented a plugin API in C# that interfaces with Azure Blob Storage and Azure Cognitive Search to save, select, filter, retrieve, and summarize past conversation history between a user and NiC.- Developed proof-of-concept infrastructure for an extensible architectural pattern that can expand NiC’s capabilities.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Service Enablement- Hybrid Cloud & Connectivity - Developed a user interface by leveraging React and Typescript that consolidates onboarding and support features into one portal within the NetInfo Explorer tool to streamline the customer ramp-up phase; reduced the amount of support documentation to one singular page; manipulated React components using state-management to modularize code structure so that features can be scalable to future Service Enablement products with projections to reduce manual engineer effort by several hours across each product.- Designed and developed backend architecture for a tool that automates the submission of bugs/feature requests/questions to Azure DevOps, decreasing several hours of manual DRI/engineer effort by creating a single location and for support services; Constructed REST API methods in C# within a class library project. - Created a product vision, gathered requirements using agile methodologies, drafted preliminary mock-ups in Figma, utilized Azure DevOps for daily SCRUM processes and deployment.

Larchmont, New York, United States

- Assist Treasurer with financial ledger maintenance using Microsoft Excel including processing check donations and bank deposits. - Helped design Excel based financial reports used by charity’s steering committee

New York, New York, United States

- Analyzed Tesla Inc.’s business and financial risk profiles to validate the S&P assigned corporate credit rating in a culminating project. Optimized project using lean and agile processing techniques.- Employed machine learning techniques (training/testing data, k-means algorithm, decision trees), macroeconomic forecasting, corporate credit rating analysis, and indexing to complete business case study.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer Science, Economics, Senior

Activities and Societies: Dean's List Fall 2020 - Spring 2024 Dance Society - Treasurer, Fall 2021-Fall 2022 Clark Competitive Computing.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics, Computer Science, Junior

Study abroad semester at Reykjavík University in Iceland

High School Diploma