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New York, NY, US

Developing services to support Flood Inundation Mapping for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).Updating existing NOAA products to support the Next Generation National Water Model Framework transition.

State College, Pennsylvania, United States

Expected Graduation: Spring 2025Researching differentiable modeling: the combination of AI/Deep Learning and Physical modeling to improve existing flood forecasting predictions and methodologies using PyTorch- Developing distributed computing methods to train/evaluate Neural Networks over multiple GPUs- Lead developer, and maintainer, of dMC: a.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

Participated in the National Water Center Innovators Program Summer Institute- Translated a soil infiltration model from C to Python to improve soil parameter estimation in arid regions. (https://github.com/NWC-CUAHSI-Summer-Institute/LGAR-py)- Assistant developer for dCFE: a differentiable Conceptual Functional Equivalent (CFE) algorithm coded in Python.

Poughkeepsie, New York, United States

- Team lead for the Product Engineering Tools team managing x86 and s390 servers/applications- Developed an automated log parsing tool to detect routine hardware failures used worldwide by IBM Z- Managed IBM Z’s continuous deployment (CD) software for pushing driver updates to production systems

Poughkeepsie, NY

- 2nd level escalation support for hardware failures within IBM Z Mainframes- Specialized in central electronic chips and logical partition support- Led the production tools team; managing team software tools and Docker instances

Poughkeepsie, NY

- Developed back and front-end Java and Angular JS applications for hardware failure analysis

Corvallis, Oregon

- Received an NSF REU Grant to study riparian corridor transport in a coupled surface-subsurface system - Participated in LTER at the HJ Andrews Forest- Studied hyporheic-exchange at the reach-scale to predict solute transport- Used R and tidyverse for data wrangling- Simulated data using observed values to determine optimal sample sizes for machine.

Poughkeepsie, NY

- Created and debugged online portal services for community organizations- Developed using Java, Scala, and MySQL- Collaborated with other student researchers and school faculty

Poughkeepsie, NY

- Tutored students in Micro and Macro Economics

Bethlehem, PA

- Created Mobile Asset Tracking and Fleet Management software and algorithms- Developed using Java, Jackson, Maven, Apache Tomcat, and PostgreSQL- Engineered dynamic web pages and back-end portal services- Worked in an agile software development environment

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Civil Engineering

Concentration: Water Resources Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics And Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Varsity Men's Rowing, Honors Program, Phi Mu Epsilon Math Honor Society, Toastmasters First authored a senior.