Experience

Story Squad

• United States
• E-Learning Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Data Scientist/Optical Machine Learning

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  ● Illuminated issue of “blind” tuning of Tesseract OCR Model: ● Resulted in changing how effort on the project is spent ● Sourced and cleaned new and novel sources of data to be fed into the Tesseract Model ● Maintained and continued to improve visual tools in Jupyter notebooks ● Wrote detailed pull requests and made meaningful merges to our main branch on the GitHub Repository ● Currently trying to find ways to reduce the character error rate of Tesseract ● Illuminated issue of “blind” tuning of Tesseract OCR Model: ● Resulted in changing how effort on the project is spent ● Sourced and cleaned new and novel sources of data to be fed into the Tesseract Model ● Maintained and continued to improve visual tools in Jupyter notebooks ● Wrote detailed pull requests and made meaningful merges to our main branch on the GitHub Repository ● Currently trying to find ways to reduce the character error rate of Tesseract



Self-employed

• Private Math Tutor

  • Dec 2019 - Present



BloomTech

• United States
• E-learning
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Data Scientist (Student)

  • Oct 2020 - Aug 2022

  ● Deployed the following in a breast cancer Kaggle competition: - Exploratory Data Analysis (31 clinical attributes and 331 genetic columns) - Data Wrangling (Leakage in particular needs to be treated with care in this dataset) - Visual EDA - Outperformed mean absolute error (MAE)baseline by as much as 50% with XGBoost, Random Forest Classifier -Tuned machine learning models (deep learning Keras neural networks. Tune network depth, node code, and activation functions) ● Developed an air quality Flask app to display air quality metrics around the United States ● Currently working with a team of data scientists and software developers to create a functional tool for the organization, Human Rights First - This collaborative environment uses Git and Github within an AGILE software development framework - Show less



Peek

• United States
• Travel Arrangements
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Mid-Market Business Development Representative

  • Apr 2019 - Nov 2019

  ● Doubled the monthly quota of 20 held meeting in just 2 weeks (38 holds) ● Gained valuable experience in Salesforce and Outreach. ● Often had the highest cold call activity metrics on the BDR team ● Adapted to changes within a start-up tech company ● Doubled the monthly quota of 20 held meeting in just 2 weeks (38 holds) ● Gained valuable experience in Salesforce and Outreach. ● Often had the highest cold call activity metrics on the BDR team ● Adapted to changes within a start-up tech company



Clearlink

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sales Representative

  • Jun 2017 - Mar 2019

  ● Finished as #1 sales representative for 6 weeks in a row.● Doubled, and often tripled sales numbers beyond the quota.● Consistant, reliable, and high energy top performer in the top 20% of the inside sales force.● Developed sales techniques that better serviced our customers. These techniques were emulated, subsequently revolutionizing the sales process.

• Sales Compliance Analyst

  • Jun 2018 - Feb 2019

  ● Cross trained to coach residential and B2B sales representatives to reach sales quotas.● Increased productivity of struggling agents by ~50%● Improved sales compliance 14% by creating awareness and understanding in our sales process.● Increased performance by understanding what drives each individual sales representative, translating that drive into performance goals (metrics), and by developing action plans to reach these metrics.● Raised morale by being positive, fun, and empathetic. Show less



Vivint Solar

• United States
• Renewables & Environment
• 700 & Above Employee

• Outside Sales Representative

  • Dec 2016 - Jun 2017

  ● Managed sales territory, generated and closed leads, met quotas, and learned sales fundamentals. ●Developed a passion for sales audiobooks ("SPIN Selling" by Neil Rackham, and "Sales EQ" by Jeb Blount, are a few of my favorites). ● Managed sales territory, generated and closed leads, met quotas, and learned sales fundamentals. ●Developed a passion for sales audiobooks ("SPIN Selling" by Neil Rackham, and "Sales EQ" by Jeb Blount, are a few of my favorites).



University of Utah

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher (Optogenetics)

  • Apr 2015 - May 2016

  ● Maintained a laboratory notebook, analyzed and stored data, and communicated findings via various software suites, etc. ● Optogenetics: used genetically modified Hela cells to test the feasibility of a light activated heart pace maker (see Senior Thesis Document). ● Maintained a laboratory notebook, analyzed and stored data, and communicated findings via various software suites, etc. ● Optogenetics: used genetically modified Hela cells to test the feasibility of a light activated heart pace maker (see Senior Thesis Document).



Bard Access Systems

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• R&D Engineer Intern

  • Feb 2013 - Nov 2013

  ●Obtained knowledge of the medical device industry by compiling and analyzing data, writing validation and verification reports, interacting with manufacturing personnel, and utilizing six sigma practices. ●Obtained knowledge of the medical device industry by compiling and analyzing data, writing validation and verification reports, interacting with manufacturing personnel, and utilizing six sigma practices.