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Atlanta, GA, US

Disrupting waste management. Our services reduce roll-off hauls by 60-80%, greatly reducing our customers' waste spend while also reducing their carbon footprint by 65% on average.

• Ideated and scaled a greenfield consultative selling effort by first developing the necessary toolset and then recruiting, training, and managing a team of 4 specialized professional engineers. Additionally, managed 3.
• Increased revenue by over $3 million in the first 1.5 years of hire by pivoting the sales strategy to a pull through approach via consultative selling, which included lead generation through technical presentations and.
• Recruited 4 professional engineers and integrated them with an existing sales team according to a unique strategic responsibilities mapping, in effect scaling revenue expectations of the business unit by over 60% in.
• Served as subject-matter expert on all new product developments and patent filings while working closely with dedicated product managers; two original ideas are currently patent-pending and two more have been filed.
• Increased O/I and operational efficiency by leading development and deployment of 80/20 concepts, blueprinting, market rate of demand, in-lining, and other business strategies between engineering and manufacturing.
• Crafted a business case to convert a sunsetting application-specific finite element analysis (FEA) software into a custom-built internal engineering tool via AI and a neural network.

Zug, CH

• Developed country-specific strategic market development guidance for more than a dozen countries.
• Conceived and directed original research to guide a newly formed infrastructure initiative.
• Transferred knowledge locally and troubleshot technical issues with concrete design and construction, ensuring accurate and quick resolution, in over 20 countries.

Rosemont, IL, US

Rosemont, IL, US

• Conceived of and lead development of an engineering app library used by thousands of engineers in over 140 countries, reducing calculation error and increasing engineering efficiency.
• Delivered more than 150 presentations and sold software in over 40 US states and 30 countries.
• Published over 1,000 pages of technical texts, including 200+ pages of original research.

Created new program offerings and reconstructed the virtual presence to enhance membership value, leading to an increase in revenue of more than 60% in less than one year.

Washington, DC, US

Through a contract with the Concrete Reinforced Steel Institute, managed collaboration of experts/academics globally to compile resources and develop an online tool to disseminate the resources.

Created and led an app/tech startup after winning the transportation industry’s inaugural Six Minute Pitch competition.

Founded and led a website, software, and hardware development company that serviced clients in and around the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Champaign, IL, US

• Conceived of and built (hardware, firmware, and software) a novel, low-cost concrete material sensing computer that is still used by DOTs and universities today.
• Thesis: Analytical Modeling of Environmental Stresses in Concrete Slabs, funded by the O’Hare Modernization Program (OMP) at the O'Hare International Airport (ORD).
• Authored or co-authored seven Technical Notes for the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) Center of Excellence for Airport Technology (CEAT).

Mba, Global Business

M.S., Civil Engineering

B.S., Civil Engineering

High School Diploma