Advisory Council Board Member, Vice Chair

An advisor to the Board of Director’s on strategic projects to help further the mission of Disability:IN in student settings.

Held leadership position as the Vice Chair of the Rising Leadership Advisory Council (RLAC), which is an advisory council that helps the USBLN make business decisions and working on various projects. Currently helping to run various RLAC projects with 4+ members.

Established alumni association initiative with by curating and leading over 8+ members to establish processes and structure to facilitate networking and learning opportunities for over 500+ alumni.

Blockchain Technical Program Manager and Business Development Liaison

Dragonchain is a cryptocurrency, smart contracts, and blockchain company. Leading a team of six developers by establishing the groundwork for project management process resulting in a two-fold increase in productivity.

Led a group of 8+ developers to develop three separate blockchain-based projects in the areas of Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS), blockchain identity management, and social community involvement. Spearheaded the development of Agile-Scrum process-oriented development lifecycle that improved developer moral, and productivity by 35-45%.

Road-mapped product development and assisted in technical development

Data and Artificial Intelligence Consultant

Working within the Data and Artificial Intelligence Domain, in the Office of the CTO, to solve problems for customers by implement Microsoft technologies to solve big data problems, gain data insights, and implement artificial intelligence solutions. Using technologies such as Azure, Azure Data Tools, HDInsight, PowerBI, T-SQL, R, Python, JSON, the Hadoop Stack, Azure Machine Learning, SharePoint, SQL Server Management Studio and other data science and big data tools.

Developed PowerBI dashboards for visualizing internal metric tracking and domain readiness/preparation by taking and compiling status reports. Presented during board reviews and vice president meetings.

Helped implement domain data-driven readiness by taking engagement data and automating input and output. Helped to map out architectural diagrams and develop solution using R, SQL Server Management Studio and other Microsoft applications. Presented to the CTO of Microsoft Consulting Services.

Worked with clients to help implement Oracle migrations using Azure Data Factory and analyze the information in Azure Data Lake Analytics. Attended envisioning workshop sessions to provide client guidance.

Completed the Microsoft Professional Program Certificate in Big Data. Working on Data Science and AI courses and certificates and learning cloud and data science technologies such as R, Azure Cosmos DB, and others.

Partnership Lead

NextBillion.org is an organization that connects people with disabilities to industry leaders who can support them professionally as mentors. Worked to form partnerships with companies and other organizations to help promote collaboration. Created career advice content for cohorts and helped to provided business development.

Strategic Innovation Intern

Competed with the Infrastructure and Military Health group to develop a real-time lead corrosion monitoring sensor for drinking water and presenting it to senior executives, in development for the Environmental Protection Agency.

Helped to develop the technical product using MySQL, Raspberry Pi, microcontrollers, Tableau and various chemical reagents. Helped to formulate the business model, marketing strategy, regulatory aspects and pitch deck in order to experience the entire consultancy lifecycle.

Venture Capital Analyst

Strategic angel investment group focused on funding early stage pre-revenue startups. The company and was founded by entrepreneurs who recognize where the world economy is heading. Conducted due diligence on over 200+ pre-revenue startups and gave presentations and provide details to the executive team partners.

Responsible for communicating, understanding, evaluating and helping to guide potential investments and RainmakeMe-funded startups develop their ventures and incorporate successful business strategies. Assisted the executive team in identifying prospective deals.

Fellow

Part of a national community of students leading a movement to ensure that all students gain the necessary attitudes, skills and knowledge required to compete in the economy of the future. Run by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation, National Science Foundation, Stanford University and VentureWell.

Project Management Intern

Streamlined innovative IT practices within Northrop Grumman’s internal information services department, resulting in the development of an automated database financial forecasting program using Microsoft Access, standing up of a high-performance computing service, SharePoint websites and other various services and projects used by all Northrop Grumman employees.

Biodiesel Project Leader & CEO

Led a fifteen student members to build a large-scale biodiesel production platform to be used for sustainable and academic purposes. Raised over $15,000 in funding for the project through various forms of fundraising, such as grants, such as the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute's Community Grant Program, and crowdsourcing techniques, such as Kickstarter and WeR Gold Funding. The production plant will be used as a learning and experimentation tool for future students and faculty that are interested in large scale manufacturing and scale-up.

Fellow

Served as a Fellow and Campus Ambassador for Lime Connect, which is a selective professional development organization for high-achieving individuals. Made up of partners from IBM, Pepsico, Google, Target, Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg and JP Morgan. Worked with class deans and students to organize events and networking for students on campus with certain companies and opportunities.

Undergraduate Researcher

Worked on discovering and implementing Affinity Peptide Chromatography resin applications, particularly for specialized chromatography resins for specific monoclonal antibody molecules for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s Medicines On Demand (BioMOD) program with Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Used HPLC’s, phage display, Celluspot peptide synthesis, infrared and ultraviolet spectrometry.

Worked in the Chemical Engineering Department in Professor Koffas’ laboratory investigating the possibilities of metabolically engineering E. coli to produce fatty acids and adding xylose utilizing cells in a co-culture with previously engineered glucose utilizing cells to produce even higher fatty acid yields. Experience with agar gels, PCR protocol, cloning and making cell cultures.

Testing and Environmental Engineering Co-op

Worked on NASA’s Sounding Rocket Operations Contract II (NSROC II), which utilizes expendable suborbital sounding rockets to conduct scientific missions to study atmospheric and space environments, and develop new technologies for space flight.

Tested 13 customized sounding rockets to ensure flight hardware durability during flight. Assisted with flight qualification testing of 15+ payload components (balance, vibration, bend, centrifugal, payload deployment and MOI (moment of inertia)). Used AutoCAD and Solidworks to help model 20+ parts for the Mechanical Engineering Department. Supported over 300+ operations and lift procedures, ran over 150+ tests and won an award with the T&E Department with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)'s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project for support.

Downstream Process Development Co-op

Worked in the Downstream Process Development group to develop novel separation technologies and gain an understanding of the current protein purification and drug development platform. Focused mainly on process condition optimization and characterization using cation and anion exchange, hydrophobic interaction and Protein-A/affinity chromatography resins for monoclonal antibody (mAb) drug products, including treatment of cancer (Opdivo®) and arthritis (Orencia®). The final processes were increased by 45% - 852% and 23% to 144%, for impurity removal and product yield, respectively.

Ran over 150 Avant experiment runs, 12 studies, over 60 experiments, 30 binding capacity tests, and packed over 50 columns. Helped set up viral filtration (VF) and tangential flow filtration (TFF) separation runs. Collaborate with BMS TECAN team to implement high-throughput screening experiments and used the design of experiments (DOE) methodology to map out optimal wash conditions for process scale-up. Used HPLC spectroscopy instrumentation and chromatographic analytical methods.

Chemical Engineering Intern

Worked in the Applied Physics/Chemistry Lab on the RESOLVE (Regolith & Environment Science & Oxygen & Lunar Volatile Extraction) Moon Rover, a Mission to Mars and ISRU (In-situ resource utilization) project which was designed to characterize lunar gas volatiles on the surface of the moon, with a focus on the Lunar Advanced Volatile Analysis Subsystem, comprised of a manifold, gas chromatograph, mass spectrometer, and Water Droplet Unit. Initial launch date of May 2020.

Researched, tested and assembled line and circuit heaters, pressure transducers, Resistance Temperature Detectors, temperature sensors, thermocouples, thin film deposition, and thermal profiles in flight-forward space flight testing procedures. Experience with preparing vacuum chambers and testing in vacuum/space flight environments. Utilized modified commercial off the shelf instruments and characterized analytical behavior for optimization and testing. Formulated flight-forward experimental procedures to guide, analyze, and draw conclusions to designs manifold and improve overall scientific instrument effectiveness.

Director of Product Management and Solution Architect

Responsible for the entirety of the educational fintech technology platform, leading a group of 8+ individual contributors, and defining product features, architecture, priority, and product roadmap while collaborating with Sales, Marketing, Legal, and C-level executives, with over 25+ stakeholders. Developed product from proof of concept and turned it into a revenue-generating product.

Establish and design user requirements and user stories with customer feedback while managing product backlog and product roadmap with product differentiation and get-to-market strategy.

Contribute to pre-sales activities for blockchain business opportunities and develop architected solutions for proposals, developing and delivering business strategy and implementation plans as well as assisting in designing complex distributed ledger/blockchain/fintech technology applications.

Established presales program that has led to an increase in deals piloted and closed by over 150%, and assisted with technical project management, developing technical content, presentations, and demonstrations.

Provide pre-sales services such as proposal writing, giving demonstrations, answering questions, client presentations, assisting account executives on-site, and prioritize and improve features based on customer feedback.

Inventor

The Inventor's Guild is a think tank and consulting firm which promotes entrepreneurial innovation by helping students earn both course credit and payment to either start their own companies or consult for start-ups. The Guild has won over three dozen awards both nationally and internationally, performed consultation and contracting services for nearly a dozen start-ups, and formed professional relationships with many innovators including Pebble Technologies and Google[x]. It is comprised of 20 students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania. Major accomplishments include rapid prototyping with four other members to win "Best Hardware Hack" at HackNY in 2015, organizing weekly student-run specialized lectures similar to TEDx Talks, and tracking semester-long goals for each member.

Service Owner

Responsible for leading team of 12+ individuals in delivery of enterprise IT Change Management and product development lifecycle process from planning to executing technical development for enterprise-scale solutions.

Implementing DevOps and Agile SAFe software development practices at program level by incorporating process changes to include data-driven feature prioritization, automated data management tools, notification and business logic automation to decrease cycle time by over 34% and decrease process-related errors by over 98%.

Drove changes to simplify governance and funding methodology by formulating and pitching to 25+ stakeholders including senior directors and staff, to increase efficiency, decrease bureaucracy, and streamline processes.

Evangelizing dashboard standardization across 15+ IT organizations, through data-driven dashboards to reduce cycle time by 30%, increase efficiency and customer satisfaction for 3,000+ people.

Brainstormed and developed software automation tools using SQL, Python, and R to automate business logic and manual processing, increasing efficiency by 50%+ and saving over 7,500+ hours every year for 50+ people.