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New York, New York, Us

Created an LLM-based solution using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to extract KPIs from variousfinancial documents and filings.Utilized a MongoDB-based vector database to augment user-written prompts with new information toeffectively eliminate the chances of hallucination.Created processes to refresh the vector database every time new data becomes available.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

• Worked to develop big data pipelines in PySpark/Spark SQL and created a bespoke data audit system within Databricks to track runs, counts, and errors. • Helped to decommission a tool by refactoring SQL and other legacy code into more efficient PySpark/Databricks jobs.• Created several dashboards within Spotfire, Power BI, and Databricks to showcase several enterprise data insights.• Developed ETL jobs in SQL Server to transform data while adhering to data warehousing protocols.

New York, Ny, Us

• Worked in multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams to solve or improve a variety of business practices with artificial intelligence approaches and solutions.• Worked on internal and client projects, including an emergency engagement processing small business loans at the start of the COVID pandemic• Engagements included several NLP pipelines, ingesting data from PDFs and other documents, and returning structured information from a variety of criteria • Helped to consolidate disparate files from a state DoC’s employee mailbox archive to account for any offender’s names that appeared in a number of different types of documents. These documents were part of court case where KPMG was hired to determine the number of credits taken by offenders and compare them to the unnamed state DoC’s tally, determining that over a million days of free time were owed to inmates

New York, Ny, Us

• Helped to build and maintain an innovation showcase of accelerators, demonstrating newfound company proficiencies in data science and big data with use cases ranging from predicting consumer follow-ups with CFPB complaints to predicting credit default using data from FNMA’s mortgage data repository • Worked on a variety of client and CoE (internal) projects, traveling to conferences, client sites, and satellite office locations when necessary• Helped to implement and administer development environments for the team, as well as a production environment hosting the accelerator. Worked to troubleshoot issues and implement changes

New York, Ny, Us

Totowa, Nj, Us

Troubleshot issues in chemical metrology processes in both R&D and manufacturing settingsCreated analysis troubleshooting guides that are distributed to internal field service engineers as well as customersCreated macros to aid in system and process diagnosisTraveled to domestic and international customer sites to aid in initial qualification, maintenance, and upgrades of chemical management systemsPerformed failure analysis on process issues and hardware to diagnose and prevent repeated failures

Totowa, Nj, Us

Performed qualitative analysis on electroplating bath mixtures for the semiconductor industry made to customers’ specificationsDeveloped parameters to successfully analyze bath mixtures using methods such as potentiometric titrations and spectroscopyDesigned experiments to implement new analytical methods Performed validation and certification of hardware used in company-manufactured productsPrepared developmental reports as well as technical documentation detailing the analysis procedure of a chemistry package that is provided to customers

Nursing Wing Remodeling Project - Jacobi Medical CenterPartnered with design engineers to create architectural drawings and projects for cost, time and energy efficient building systems for residential, commercial, and industrial constructionCreated and presented cost/benefit analysis of projects to the partnersConstruction project on-site work

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemical Engineering

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