Software Engineer, Capital One, Richmond, VA August 2023 – Present

• Backend Engineer in the Customer Core Platform (Feb 2025 - current)
• Data Engineer in the Marketing & Measurements Data Platform (Feb 2024 - Feb 2025)

Production Engineer, Celanese (formerly DuPont), Hopewell, VA September 2021 – July 2023

• Promoted to asset leader responsible for a $8MM Mylar®/Melinex® stenter line generating 1.5MM lbs/month of boPET film
• Championing sitewide adoption of industry 4.0 initiatives and driving continuous improvement work in all aspects including production output, product quality, data analytics, and manufacturing efficiency
• ETL Data Pipeline Project
  • Increased data-to-action time 64% by establishing an ETL data pipeline to extract raw production data with Python from Excel and SAP ERP
  • Cleaned data with Python and standardized database schema sitewide; Loaded tables into a PostgreSQL server
  • Connected database server to PowerBI to generate multiple interactive dashboards used in asset performance reviews
• Production Predictive Forecast Model
  • Developed a Python script to retrieve product specifications and parse site’s customer PHP database based on material order number
  • Calculated product timing forecast predictions with current process conditions and historic material efficiencies
  • Posted timing predictions on operation team’s daily production schedule
  • Soft savings include increased awareness of product timing and quality level specifications
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Project
  • Led a team of 28 to reduce barium film internal failure rate by 32% -- total hard savings of ~$48k/year
  • Soft savings: overall process stability improved 14%, standard deviation improved 22%, and variance improved 40%
  • Leveraged Minitab to perform six sigma analysis including Gage R&R, Capability Analysis, t-test, ANOVA, and regression

Quality Engineer, Celanese (formerly DuPont), Hopewell, VA June 2020 – August 2021

• Streamlined internal quality documents, improved document control systems, and supported site ISO 9001:2015 and BRC/GMP compliance audits
• Utilized SAP and SQL to extract raw quality performance data; Transformed data into business intelligence reports that track quality KPIs for the senior leadership team
• Quality Text Analytics Classifier
  • Replaced legacy Excel VBA macros and developed a Python script to classify internal rejects based on fault code and reject description
  • Calculated internal reject loss based on standard costs-per-pound information provided by finance department
  • Improved classification model by 85.2%, delivered categorized data to all stakeholders

Facilities Asset Engineer Intern, VCU Facilities Management, Richmond, VA May 2018 – May 2020

• Aided in the implementation of a new CMMS for preventative/predictive maintenance programs
• Identified 1000+ critical assets (HVAC/Electrical/Mechanical) by reviewing technical drawings and monitoring building automation systems in order to validate equipment function

Process Engineer Intern, PepsiCo, Inc., Newport News, VA June 2019 – August 2019

• Analyzed performance data from an Altec® filling system and utilized statistical process control to reduce variation in production output by 12%; Communicated and presented recommendations to plant management
• Effectively implemented Lean Six Sigma methodologies resulting in annual savings of $25K

Technology Instructor, Renassiance Child (Summer Camp) , Arlington, VA June 2016 – August 2016

• Created, implemented, and taught elementary to middle school aged kids in Lego Mindstorms (NXT & EV3) robotics programming and video game development through MIT Scratch

Involvement

• Instructor at Capital One Coders Feb 2024 – Present
  • Led classroom of 15 middle-school aged students weekly through fundamentals of programming building mobile apps
  • Managed curriculum for 8 software engineering mentors to guide students through Android app development
• Tutor at Capital One Developer Academy Feb 2024 – Present

  • Aided full-stack development bootcamp associates with varying topics monthly
• Admissions Ambassador at UVA School of Data Science August 2022 – May 2024

Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, Amazon July 2024
• Certified Secure Software Engineer, Capital One October 2023
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, DuPont August 2022

Skills

• (proficient): Python, PySpark, HTML/CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, git, bash
• (familiar): React, Java, C/C++, R