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New York City Metropolitan Area

Backend Developer

United States

Developer for the Audience Projections team in MSA’s Media Department.Developed and trained SBERT models for phrase similarity to enhance matching accuracy between Neilsen data and internal master lists, outperforming more basic NLP text similarity algorithms and increasing our match from 85% to 95%Optimized an existing prediction program by implementing a system to persist data for predictions, and implementing incremental training.Separated training and prediction tasks, reducing weekly runtime for prediction from 24 hours to 1 hour, and cutting training time in half.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Managed employee scheduling and payrollOrganized and scheduled group outings and day to day walk up kayak rentalsTransported kayaks between rental sites

Seattle, Washington, United States

Worked with AWS Cloud Formation team. Implemented Elasticsearch Cluster to provide allow AWS customers to search Cloud Formation resources. Went through thorough process for project development, from developing idea and creating a proposal, to implementation and testing.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

One of 40 interns, sole intern assigned to the API team. Generated documentation for a new RESTful web API by pulling request and response data from the API and converting that data into JSON schema to be used with Swagger. Work included extensive use of C#

New Haven, Ct

Maintained organization websites, created digital forms for event management. Aided in event organization for the 2017 CDBi Indoor Rowing Relay CDBi 2017 Dragon Boat Regatta. Actively coach beginning rowers and oversee on-water safety during practices.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Worked 20 hours/week (during full time enrollment at Case Western). Duties included sushi chef, cash register, and managing other staff. Reference available from manager.

New Haven, Ct

Home renovation work including cutting and installing moldings, hanging doors, preparing floors for tile, and installing windows. Assisted beekeeping operations by harvesting frames, spinning honey, and general care of hives.

Becket, Ma

Selected for Leader in Training program, serving as counselor’s aide and camp worker. Included 20 hours of community service each week at inner city summer camp in Springfield, MA and performing state park trail maintenance. Becket summer camper 2007 through 2012.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Classes: Data Structures, Algorithms, Multi-variable Calculus, Differential Equations, Discrete Mathematics.

Wilderness First Aid, Cpr Certificaiton And Lnt Master Educator Certification, Spring Semester In The Rockies (90 Days), A

Activities and Societies: Winter camping, canyoneering, rafting, rock climbing.

General Studies

Activities and Societies: • 2014 Academic Prize for Work in Advanced Computer Science • Sports: 2014 Co-Captain Varsity Boys Crew • 2014.

Computer Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Summer program to boost programming skills; course work culminated with building two small games.