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New York, NY, US

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• 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.
• 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.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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%.

Toronto, Ontario

• 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

Toronto

• 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

Ottawa

• 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

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor’S Degree, Nanotechnology Engineering

Activities and Societies: Varsity Rugby Team, Engineering Ambassadors