Education
AA in Culinary Arts
2002 - 2004
Experiences
- Pioneered the identification of critical issues well in advance, showcasing foresight in recognizing challenges before their significance was evident.
- Engineered innovative solutions beyond the scope of many in the organization, exemplifying exceptional problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated sustained dedication by independently managing a critical tech solution and database for years, fueled solely by a personal commitment to its importance.
- Mastered Azure architecture, executing diverse use cases.
- Played a pivotal role in creating a hybrid data engineer/web developer position, contributing to job description development and implementation.
- Successfully delivered a complex tech stack, managing the challenges of cloud integration and security constraints.
- Dedicated to the challenge of streamlining production along with maintaining an efficient, cost effective operation.
- Honed in business objectives by implementing monitoring devices and software for remote management.
Professional Accomplishments
- Spearheaded transformation of transaction alert capabilities in the store, introducing an innovative self-service alerting mechanism.
- Empowered the Global Investigations (GI) team to respond proactively to point-of-sale (POS) alerts related to suspicious activities.
- Swiftly addressed POS alerts on potential fraudulent transactions, significantly contributing to the acceleration of investigations and the closure of numerous significant cases.
- Played an instrumental role in enhancing GI’s response time and success rate through the implementation of the alerting mechanism.
Collaboration and Teaching Approach
Professional
- Collaborate closely with colleagues to elevate their skill sets, exemplifying a spirit of partnership and mentorship.
- Invest personal time and effort to provide hands-on training sessions, including assisting team members in mastering complex concepts such as Lucene Syntax in Kibana.
- Demonstrate an exceptional commitment to fostering skill development within my organization, aligning with the principle of continuous improvement and shared growth.
- Assisted as a club officer for 3 years
- 1 of 50 teams invited to compete at Build the Shield (Microsoft)
- Top 3 at NICCDC (NIATEC) 2017
- Competed at RMCCDC 2016, 2017, 2018
- Led team to placing 3rd overall at RMCCDC 2018
SheTech
- Presented Workshop Cybersecurity: Silicon Slopes Here We Come! at SheTech 2018 under Dr. Shalini Kesar at Southern Utah University. Engaged girls on topics including passwords, email accounts, phishing, and social media safe practices
- Teamed up in 2017 with Dell EMC sponsors in an effort to provide girls with useful information on exciting STEM related career paths.
Southern Utah University
- Assisted students in comprehending the interface between computer software and hardware. Covered topics including processor architecture, computer arithmetic, instruction set architecture, and assembly language. Additionally, served as Ambassador for unique outreach program. Motivating high school girls in rural Utah an area spanning 30,000 square miles is a challenge, although making meaningful impression is not. By devoting time and effort I learned how my impression made an impact on the children I mentored.
Research
Project Z
- An ongoing project that is comprised of a Raspberry Pi and modules used to teach programming to children
Hummingbird (BirdBrains Labs)
- During this research project it was necessary to improve the peripherals used to teach children. I designed and built a chassis for the circuit board, to allow children the ability to build a functional robot. Scratch and Snap! programming languages were used to teach middle school aged children programming.
FLL (FIRST LEGO League)
- A two-fold research project introducing a local elementary school to FIRST LEGO League, and then providing them with a learning environment to stimulate development in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
- The group of children I coached was the only first year elementary school to qualify to compete at state. The team performed consistent results during each of the three Robot Games.
Under Dr. Dezhi Wu at Southern Utah University, our research titled Inspiring Youngsters to STEM Fields through FIRST LEGO Robots was featured in the UTAH ACADEMY of Science, Arts, and Letters | Annual Conference 2018.