Experience

Recurse Center

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Recurser at Recurse Center

  • Nov 2018 - Present

  Develop a Chrome extension for remote pairing using React, Node.js, Express, Socket.io Contribute Webpack tutorial to open-source Rust project ‘wasm-pack’ for generating WebAssembly Build API for MTA subway times and use to build an Arduino LED platform display Develop a JavaScript rock climbing game using Phaser and P2.js physics engine Lead daily algorithms and data structures pairing sessions, update chat bot for scheduling hosts Read Atlassian book on Git, complete two algorithms courses, build an operating system from Nand gates (Nand2Tetris), 200+ hours pair programming, learn Vim Show less



Merkle Brothers Ethereum Trading Card Game

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2018 - Sep 2018

  Personal startup (ongoing). A fantasy trading card game for Ethereum using Solidity and JavaScript Players can vote on card attributes via a governance smart contract. Artists can introduce new cards and receive portions of the profits when their cards are purchased Hire and direct 11 freelance artists to produce 300+ fantasy card illustrations via specifications Write smart contract for handling ERC-721 tokens (Solidity, 1000 loc), testing (Truffle) Write app for capturing user and card info from Ethereum network (MongoDB, Express, Node.js, Socket.io, 4000 loc), game and matchmaking logic (Javascript, 4000 loc), front-end (Angular, Vue.js, web3.js, 5500 loc), testing game and matchmaking logic (Jest, 10,000 loc) Deploy AWS EC2 with EBS, NGINX for HTTPS, PM2 to handle server and Geth Ethereum node Show less



Albemarle Corporation

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Process Design Engineer

  • Aug 2013 - May 2017

  Responsibilities Ideation, economics and feasibility, engineering calculations and modeling, scope documentation (1000+ pages) and specifications, safety analysis, management of change (version control), process startup, monitoring, and troubleshooting, statistical analysis of process conditions Project Experience Analyze and break bottlenecks in a flame retardant plant via process optimizations and series of capital projects ($400M/yr production increase) Plantwide bottleneck analysis for an acid gas stream with many users. Add manual tracking, instrumentation, and predictive modeling to use resource efficiently ($300M/yr savings) Design an acid gas storage tank system to provide a raw material buffer ($200M/yr savings) Feasibility exploration, scoping, documentation of 50+ cost savings projects ($700M/yr savings) Mentor interns (3) and new hires (2) on documentation best practices and checking calculations Documentation: Write process documentation for a flame retardant plant (300+ pages), document startup and shutdown procedure for undocumented plants (100+pages), management of change documentation (100+ pages), equipment specs (200+pages). Startup and commissioning team member for >$2MM project. Experience with: ChemCAD/PIPE-FLO, OSIsoft PI Processbook Technical communication including scope packages, P&ID markup, engineering economics, SAP, operating/commissioning/startup procedures, sequencing and graphics revisions, equipment specifications. Heat transfer and pressure drop calculations. Heat exchanger sizing, pump sizing, and PSV sizing. Emissions calculations and documentation. Plant-wide material balance and bottleneck identification on complex multi-user process streams. OEE improvement. Show less



Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Science Undergraduate Laboratory Intern (SULI)

  • May 2012 - Aug 2012

  Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) imaging and Micro-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (micro-FTIR) of atmospheric aerosols Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) imaging and Micro-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (micro-FTIR) of atmospheric aerosols