Experience

Lotic.ai, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Systems Engineer

  • Aug 2023 - Present

  United States I support and advise the CEO, the Chief Architecture and Systems Officer and other senior leadership around design, build, deployment, maintenance, and health of the entirety of the Lotic ecosystem.



Meta

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Central Analytics Manager

  • May 2020 - Jul 2023

  I manage multiple teams of analysts that specialize in data science, data engineering, and PM skills in supporting Product and Operations in making Meta platforms safe for our users.

• Data Specialist

  • Sep 2018 - May 2020

  Austin, Texas



RAND Corporation

• United States
• Think Tanks
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Operations Researcher

  • Aug 2018 - Aug 2022

• Associate Operations Researcher

  • Mar 2016 - Aug 2018



Penn State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Fellow

  • Aug 2011 - May 2016

  State College, Pennsylvania Area Dual PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Primary research focus in cheminformatics and Smart Healthcare (pattern recognition and artificial intelligence techniques applied to the healthcare domain)



University of Ghana

• Ghana
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Voluntary Lecturer and Course Designer

  • Jun 2014 - Jun 2014

  Accra, Ghana Designed course material and lectured for a 2-week, intense course in software engineering using Python. Trip was originally initiated and sponsored by the Office of Naval Research; however, I was also funded through fellowships. I focused on course development, outlining, and presenting material on Python syntax. For access to the course material, information about student projects, and to learn more please see our open github repository http://stdio-ghana.github.io/



Booz Allen Hamilton

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • Oct 2010 - Jan 2012

  Modeling, Simulation, Wargaming & Analysis. Mission Performance Analytics Advanced Analytics Operations Research Statistical Modeling



Adama University

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Voluntary Lecturer/ Researcher

  • Jul 2010 - Oct 2010

  Traveled to Ethiopia to work at Adama University as well as Harembee University College and Hamara Computer Institute. Taught courses in organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, web design, and Excel VBA



Booz Allen Hamilton

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • Jan 2010 - Jun 2010



Booz Allen Hamilton

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Intern

  • May 2009 - Aug 2009

  Utilizing AIMMS, a mathematical programming software tool-kit, I constructed a workable marketing tool to demonstrate how my team can help current and future clients.



Abbott

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Intern

  • May 2008 - Aug 2008

  As a GPO manufacturing intern, I had six process engineering projects that tested my abilities to compile important vendor information and material specifications to creating a user-friendly template for handling large hydraulic calculations.