Experience

QCI. More Than Technology. Understanding.

• Information Technology & Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Data Engineer

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  Des Moines, Iowa, United States Data Engineering Consultant



Corteva Agriscience

• United States
• Farming
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Scientist

  • Apr 2016 - Sep 2022

  Johnston, Iowa Designed, developed, and deployed proof-of-concept machine learning applications using React/Bootstrap/Kubernetes to drive scientists to try new methods of data analysis, visualization, and decision making. Constructed data-driven models to provide human-in-the-loop decision making within early R&D evaluation stages of a billion-dollar plant breeding research organization Co-author on one of the largest plant breeding experiments ever constructed - contributed statistical… Show more Designed, developed, and deployed proof-of-concept machine learning applications using React/Bootstrap/Kubernetes to drive scientists to try new methods of data analysis, visualization, and decision making. Constructed data-driven models to provide human-in-the-loop decision making within early R&D evaluation stages of a billion-dollar plant breeding research organization Co-author on one of the largest plant breeding experiments ever constructed - contributed statistical analysis of multi-year multi-environment multi-location trial. (Not yet published) Led initiative for portfolio-optimization based model to inform customers what products to purchase to minimize their own agricultural risk. Leveraged third-party and company-internal datasets to simulate real-world outcomes, then simulate distributions of those outcomes to quantify an inherit risk-reward tradeoff. Organizing chair of "Data Science Technology Advocacy" group - sharing best practices for technology adoption and transfer to production across internal company systems. Lead subject matter expert consulting with newly-formed company data engineering team Functioned as germplasm portfolio manager for Southern US corn breeding team

• Sr. Software Developer

  • Aug 2015 - Apr 2016

  Johnston, Iowa Functioned as Data Engineer for analytics team - tested and deployed cloud-based microservice providing recommendations for chemical applications to farmer's fields in a hybrid on-demand and batch processing system. Transformed >10TB of geospatial data into a normalized, QC'd file-based index formatted for Map-Reduce operations.

• Software Developer

  • Jul 2012 - Aug 2015

  Johnston, Iowa Developed desktop software applications (C#/WPF) to support quality control, scientific review, and decision making based on visualizations of data produced by high-throughput genotyping laboratories for multiple crop species.