Technical Leadership* Conducted feasibility assessments of emerging technologies and digital transformation initiatives, providing expertise on deployment considerations such as scalability, data privacy, and access* Guided senior leadership through the development of Plans of Actions and Milestones (POAMs), effectively presenting complex technical concerns to both internal executives and external clients* Directed the hiring process to create a team diverse in skills and experience* Created a supportive team environment that encouraged open discussions about challenges and successes, fostering a culture of innovation and collective commitment to shared goals* Balanced multiple operational and strategic objectives through agile sprint planning* Ensured smooth teamwork and operational efficiency by developing standards for the team’s code, data models, and application UI elementsData Science Accomplishments* Demonstrated the value of our data science services, resulting in tripling the contract size* Led data modernization effort, developing a highly-recognized analytical tool using Qlik, which reached thousands of users and was adopted by the Office of the Secretary of Defense* Designed and implemented 15 ETL pipelines with Apache Spark in Databricks, including a pipeline to handle over 300GB of daily incoming data, supporting the development and maintenance of ten enterprise applications* Hosted proof-of-concept LLM on a classified network to support data labeling, achieving 80% accuracy* Diagnosed and resolved data quality issues, proactively collaborating with data source owners to enhance data integrity

Designed ANOVA experiments for stochastic models to identify key factors impacting high-level metricsStrategically altered client assumptions and planning factorsDeveloped new model analysis technique via machine learning-generated Markov Chain for complex scenariosCreated databases connecting multiple data sources for $5 billion annual program spendingDeveloped team's first Python pipelines for ongoing workflows, including parallel processing for big dataInfluenced top leadership's community engagement efforts with analysis and visuals of a 40,000-person surveyPiloted objective legal discussions with military criminal justice data visualizationsFramed policy decisions regarding COVID-19 metrics and factors

Coordinated world wide intel analysis on airborne DIRCM systems across several agencies.Provided scientific insight into laser properties and functions.

Implemented machine learning using particle swarm optimization to test models and inform future measurementsCreated supervised train and test experiments to compare optical functions on large data sets

I invented, coded, and published a game for the Android Play storeI used Unity with C# scripting