Experience

SHINE Technologies

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Data Scientist

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  Madison, Wisconsin, United States - Defect/Component detection and classification of nuclear fuel rods

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 2019 - Sep 2020

  Madison, Wisconsin, United States - Developed Python software for analyzing nuclear fuel rods in Phoenix's Nuclear Fuel Scanner machines. - Refactored C++ client-server application responsible for acquiring live nuclear detector data on Nuclear Fuel Scanner machines. - Produced a suite of analytic tools for quick turnarounds on customer requests and maintenance on the Nuclear Fuel Scanner machines.

• Nuclear Analyst Intern

  • Apr 2019 - Oct 2019

  Madison, Wisconsin, United States - Researched and optimized neutron interrogation systems for detecting explosives. - Designed and modeled dynamic radiation shielding for accelerator bunkers. - Developed software tools for simulating actual detector responses in MCNP; a feature the code is currently lacking. - Replicated CAD drawings of complex systems into MCNP for simulations.



Battelle

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• CBRNE Software Engineer

  • Jun 2015 - Apr 2019

  Columbus, Ohio Area - Led development of a multi-threaded model in C++ to estimate consequences from a nuclear detonation and fallout at any location in the USA. - Developed shielding requirement model for various radioisotopes using a python script to automate MCNP. Utilized several of MCNP's variance reduction techniques. - Managed an intern for two summers providing her with tasks that aided our team and her growth as a software engineer. - Developed and optimized a geographic transformation and… Show more - Led development of a multi-threaded model in C++ to estimate consequences from a nuclear detonation and fallout at any location in the USA. - Developed shielding requirement model for various radioisotopes using a python script to automate MCNP. Utilized several of MCNP's variance reduction techniques. - Managed an intern for two summers providing her with tasks that aided our team and her growth as a software engineer. - Developed and optimized a geographic transformation and interpolation C++ library taking advantage of test-driven development. - Administer several git repositories using Microsoft Team Foundation Server; Make final pull request approvals, version control releases, and consolidate parallel development - Upgraded existing python scripts to significantly increase data extraction speeds and analysis capabilities. Scripts are currently used by team for almost all data analytics tasks. - Wrote an appendix for a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory report documenting the algorithms I used to clean a sparse data-set of worldwide radioactive sources. - Upgraded several of our git repositories to use the C++ Google Test framework. - Produced a hundred page technical appendix which included creating several unique plots in Excel to help convey our risk results. - Replaced our team's existing legacy C++ model interface with a much simpler and usable C# interface that has been used ever since. - Created an interactive map GUI using C# and XAML that allowed our clients to visualize the spatially dependent results of their nuclear explosives model for the first time ever. - Led entire team in completely reorganizing our existing C++ code-base to a modular structure that uses NuGet packages for version control. Gave a instruction presentation to the entire team as to how to properly migrate to our new architecture. - Independently researched CRISPR gene editing, produced corresponding procedures, and underwent those CRISPR experiments in a BSL1/2 laboratory. Show less



University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Researcher: Nuclear Software Development

  • Dec 2014 - Jun 2015

  - Developed an Adjoint Monte-Carlo Nuclear Framework (FRENSIE) for use in nuclear science and engineering applications - Implemented version control software (GitHub) to manage and collaborate with development group - Utilized a Unix operating system and terminal for development and testing purposes

• Physics Lab Technician

  • Jan 2012 - May 2015

  - Maintained and prepare lab experiments for physics courses - Inspected, diagnosed, and fixed suspect electronic and mechanical instrumentation and apparatuses - Designed and fabricated a tech bench for my boss and coworkers - Managed and organized tasks of fellow employees

• Reactor Operator Trainee

  • Sep 2013 - Dec 2013

  - Operated the University's TRIGA nuclear reactor - Received supplementary instruction in conjunction with the Nuclear Reactor Operations course - Familiarized with reactor control instrumentation - Adhered to strict operation and maintenance procedures and guidlines



Culver's Restaurants

• United States
• Restaurants
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Member

  • Mar 2007 - Jan 2012

  - Trained new employees - Worked as a team in a fast-paced and stressful environment - Managed several tasks simultaneously