SUMMARY

Software engineer with 9 years of professional experience and a proven ability to deliver impactful results. Experience in large-scale advertising and semiconductor manufacturing, designing production systems handling billions of users and revenue. Successful in smaller environments such as education nonprofits. Strong leadership ability to empower teams in a variety of fields. Background in machine learning and physics.

EXPERIENCE

Google

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Diego, CA

Dates: April 2020 – Present

Protect children online by classifying advertisements into an age-appropriate ratings scheme (AAA), which restricts ads with inappropriate topics from serving to minors.
Lead the kids experiences team through technical design, public-facing duties, and external collaboration; and by mentoring and empowering junior engineers.
Create and maintain systems to enable AAA on multiple Google and third party platforms serving billions of users.
Expanded AAA child protections by ~10x via project ownership on Google Search and Shopping; including design, implementation, launches, analysis, and pipelining. Collaborate and lead cross-functional teams to achieve these goals.
Realized 50% alert reduction and improved automation by designing a new scheduling platform, while reducing on-call toil. Led a team of engineers during implementation.
Promote team activities: regular code and design reviews, on-call duties, and interviewing.

Micron Technology, Inc.

Job Title: Senior Control Systems Engineer

Location: Boise, ID

Dates: August 2015 – April 2020

Automated manufacturing anomaly / fault detection and reaction (FDC) with the goal of reducing scrap, product variance, and RMAs at all backend sites globally.
Created and maintained FDC systems, and enhanced FDC system functionality with plugins and feature additions.
Realized multi-million dollar savings across product lines at multiple factories with FDC systems.
Addressed need for global alignment on FDC systems by training and leading an international team.
Modeled manufacturing processes and established controls by collaborating with process engineers and other technical experts.
Designed integrations for new tool / sensor integrations and non-standard systems as the global SME. Collaborated with R&D groups to cover new product integrations.
Designed / implemented FDC integration on state-of-the-art thermal compression bonder process. Reduced faults, excursions, and customer RMAs.

EDUCATION

Georgia Institute of Technology

Graduated: May 2023

Master of Science in Computer Science – Machine Learning

Idaho State University

Graduated: May 2015

Bachelor of Science in Physics
Bachelor of Science in Music

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Python, C++, SQL, C#, Go
Machine learning, software development, automation
Python libraries: Torch, Tensorflow + Keras, pandas, sklearn

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Armada Corps, Inc.

Job Title: Founder, Board Member

Location: Boise, ID

Dates: December 2016 – August 2019

Founded the organization; achieved federal nonprofit status on the first attempt. Made high-level decisions for the organization with the rest of the executive team. Developed the website, wrote non-profit incorporation documents, and created other public-facing documents.