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Albany, OR, US

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Worked on a project aimed at identifying key metrics for greenhouse gas accounting across the western United States.
• Collaborated with industry and advocacy stakeholders to develop metrics for a standardized and centralized greenhouse gas reporting platform.
• Interviewed representatives from companies that currently engage in greenhouse gas reporting and renewable energy credit accounting.
• Created presentations to share with stakeholders, facilitate discussions to gather input and feedback, and wrote a comprehensive report summarizing the findings and recommendations of the project.

• Developed a database to track, monitor, and analyze the effectiveness of current safety inspection processes; submitted findings to management in a formal report and presentation.
• Identified areas for improvement within the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation’s administrative functions, such as streamlining paperwork processes and implementing new software tools.
• Collaborated with another intern to propose actionable solutions to improve efficiency and reduce administrative burden on the office while ensuring compliance with internal regulations.

Corvallis, Oregon, United States

• Undergraduate Learning Assistant (ULA) for ECE 272 - Digital Logic Design Lab at Oregon State University for Fall 2020.
• Administered and graded lab sessions which applied the following concepts: data types, Boolean algebra, state machines, simplification of switching expressions, introductory computer arithmetic, and digital circuit.
• Instructed students in the use of tools such as: Quartus Prime Lite, ModelSim, and Verilog to program an Intel FPGA for various projects, including adders, seven segment display controllers, VGA output, and external.

Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, United States

• Submarine Nuclear Electronics Technician/Submarine Reactor Controls Division Leading Petty Officer
• Maintained all required administrative paperwork and oversaw divisional and departmental training, evaluation, qualification and watch-standing for a team of nine nuclear electronics technicians during two Western.
• Combined understanding of electrical fundamentals, digital logic design, and operational experience to create and perform troubleshooting procedures for microprocessor-based nuclear reactor instrumentation and control.
• Coordinated, directed, and performed hundreds of routine maintenance items of varying complexity while ensuring the fulfillment of all technical, operational, and procedural specifications and maximizing equipment.
• Generated weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual schedules for maintenance and training to meet Reactor Plant Manual periodicity requirements while maintaining flexibility to meet ever-changing departmental, ship-wide.

Graduate Certificate, Energy Policy

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Minor: Applied Economics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Economics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Minor: Computer Science

4.00/4.00

Nuclear Electronics Technician And Nuclear Reactor Operator, 3.07/4.00

Prototype training on the fundamentals of a Naval nuclear power plant and the interrelationship of its mechanical, electrical, and reactor.

Nuclear Electronics Technician, 3.68/4.00

Activities and Societies: Graduated with honorsTraining in science and engineering fundamental to the design, operation, and maintenance.

Nuclear Electronics Technician, 3.72/4.00

Training in science and engineering fundamental to the design, operation, and maintenance of naval nuclear propulsion plants.