• Guided Axiomatic_AI’s product development strategy by analyzing market trends in the semiconductor and photonic device industries, identifying target sectors and use cases and prioritizing the development of capabilities which would provide the largest impact to potential users.• Developed an operating model and organization chart for a 25+ employee startup, defining the reporting structure and how projects are identified and assigned to technical and functional team members.• Led the establishment of collaborative projects and strategic partnerships with 4 companies in the photonic devices and semiconductor industry.

• Stood up a process Center of Excellence (CoE) for a financial institution with 200,000+ global employees to advance their process expertise; designed process architectures to be applied across the institution and created a governance model for the 50+ person CoE to ensure sustained success as it expanded to service more lines of business.

• Enhanced a global bank’s process documentation methodology by analyzing their existing procedures and identifying shortcomings, implementing targeted improvements to increase documentation efficiency and ensure their library of 2,500+ process models was structured in alignment with their enterprise operations.• Untangled the operations of 4 critical lines of business at a global bank into discrete processes, providing managing directors with visibility into the components of their business and creating a framework to identify process improvement areas and address risk & control gaps.• Led worksteams of 2-4 junior practitioners through process modeling; prioritized and assigned tasks to ensure the committed scope was delivered and provided mentorship to the team to develop their core consulting skills.• Identified 100+ process optimization opportunities at a global custodian bank through process modeling and Subject Matter Expert interviews, including high ROI areas for automation and system/database integration.

• Developed analytics and dashboards to allow leaders of a practice group of 600+ consultants to better understand the impact of talent and staffing challenges when setting hiring and deployment priorities.• Created a governance model at the beginning of the pandemic that enabled a seamless transition to virtual work for a team of 50+ people performing highly collaborative user acceptance testing of an enterprise HR system.• Established Key Performance Indicators used to evaluate the progress of a system implementation and predict timeline risks, then collected data daily from 4 workstreams to present these metrics in leadership reports.• Developed automated analytics to calculate key metrics from limited available client data, enabling metrics-driven status reporting while reducing the number of data elements required to be manually tracked by 15%.

• Evaluated inventions, comparing them to the state of the art to identify patentable aspects and develop strategies for pursuing patent protection• Corresponded with inventors to quickly gain a detailed understanding of inventions in a variety of technical fields, including software, information systems, materials, and oil and gas• Drafted patent applications to thoroughly describe the operation and function of inventions• Responded to objections from the US and Canadian patent offices by writing arguments to justify the novelty and non-obviousness of claimed inventions and amending patent claims

• Proposed and tested formulations for mechanically tunable photonic crystals using UV-curable monomers• Assisted with the development of a nanostructured, laser tunable Bragg reflector into a mass-producible commercial product• Compiled and analyzed data to design tests for future iterations of experiments

• Planned and conducted design tests of seismometer prototypes, constructing testing apparatus when required• Analyzed results of seismometer tests and proposed plans for future R&D testing• Troubleshot and repaired faulty seismometer prototypes and test setups