Personal Projects
- Engineered and deployed an electromechanical point-of-sale system by retrofitting a vintage merchandiser with solenoid actuation, modern payment integration, and synchronized creative elements that enhance the user experience at maker events
- Designed a solenoid driver that interfaces with microcontroller logic-level output and validated reliable actuation under continuous operational load through thermal and duty cycle endurance testing to ensure compatibility with 3D printed mounts
- Modeled and manufactured all hardware and electronics mounts to integrate seamlessly within the original vintage enclosure
- Architected a communication pipeline using API webhook event subscriptions and a secure tunnel to expose the embedded Raspberry Pi server to the internet, enabling real-time payment authorization events to drive a state machine for vending cycles
Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV)
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
Documentation | Localization | Path Planning
Ongoing
- Developing an autonomous ground vehicle as an active learning platform for electromechanical system design and SLAM algorithms, integrating DC motor drive systems, embedded control software, and multi-sensor localization hardware
- Modeled and documented all mechanical components in Fusion 360 and manufactured using 3D printing and laser cutting
- Implementing closed-loop DC motor control via PWM and H-bridge modules for speed and bidirectional control
- Integrated Ultra-Wideband (UWB) modules in a trilateration architecture for indoor localization using DSP techniques
- Implemented an A* path planning algorithm for optimal collision-free navigation on a known and discretized grid map
Technical and Professional Experience
Cloud Financial Operations (FinOps) Engineer
Huntington National Bank | Remote
October 2023 - Present
- Certified FinOps Practitioner
- Founded and operationalized the organization's FinOps practice as the sole practitioner, designing cloud cost ETL pipelines, utilization analysis algorithms, and automated dashboards that enable real-time cost analytics across AWS, GCP, and Azure
- Collaborating across technical and financial teams and senior leadership in a cross-functional capacity to drive cloud cost governance strategies that recovered $1M in anomalous cloud spend and monitored cloud costs through 3 M&A periods
- Designing AI consumption KPIs and advising technical and financial stakeholders on cloud AI resource pricing models, analyzing utilization patterns and cost run-rates to forecast future consumption and support CSP resource allocation planning
- Scaling the FinOps practice across headcount, analytical scope, and cloud coverage to navigate accelerating cloud adoption and growing organizational complexity, mentoring a junior team member to build organizational FinOps capability
Cloud Data and Automation Engineer
Huntington National Bank | Remote
March 2022 - October 2023
- Automated Configuration Management metric reporting procedures, reducing a monthly 20+ hour process to an instantaneous process using a data lake and relational database architecture in MySQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Designed, documented, and implemented a cloud-native database architecture, ETL, data processing tools, and visualizations
- Reduced a monthly 20+ hour process to an instantaneous process by automating Configuration Management metric reporting with a Python ETL and a relational MySQL relational database hosted in AWS
- Collaborated with data teams to develop automated data reporting APIs from data owning servers to recipient S3 buckets in the Configuration Management AWS instance, thereby automating their previously manual monthly reporting procedures
- Developed interactive Tableau dashboards to facilitate data exploration through publicly accessible team SharePoints
Data Engineer
L3Harris Technologies | Palm Bay, FL
May 2020 - March 2022
- Automated data processing and reporting pipelines for electromechanical test systems in Python, reducing an 8-hour per experiment manual workflow to an automated process that enabled real-time performance monitoring of control hardware
- Designed and implemented a scalable relational database architecture to ingest and govern 20 years of legacy experimental data spanning 4,000+ experiments, enabling efficient querying and reporting for engineering and business stakeholders
- Developed modular data exploration and visualization tooling in Python, enabling non-programmer engineers and technicians to interactively analyze control system telemetry and generate reports independently
- Automated mechanical systems' data processing and optimization procedures to identify opportunities for improvement
- Implemented statistics and computer vision practices to develop robust data characterization algorithms
Controls Engineer
L3Harris Technologies | Palm Bay, FL
June 2018 - May 2020
- Owned the cross-disciplinary design effort of a closed-loop DC motor control system, independently developing the mechanical system, drive electronics, and data acquisition hardware while implementing a data-driven parameterization algorithm that replaced a manual 8-hour tuning procedure with an automated 30-second cycle that eliminated operator error
- Replaced $2,500 legacy motor amplifiers with a compact motor driver module with PWM and H-Bridge capabilities, achieving 80% hardware cost reduction per testbed and enabling broader distribution to operators across the program
- Produced thorough documentation comprising user procedures, algorithm derivation reports, and architectural diagrams to facilitate software team collaboration and ensure accurate implementation of the original algorithm design
- Socialized the automated tuning system across the technician team through hands-on training sessions, enabling operators to independently configure test setups and make parameter modifications, establishing shared ownership of the new solution
Volunteering
Introduction to Python Course Instructor
MakerFX Makerspace | Orlando, FL
Course Material
May 2026 - Present, Seasonal
- Designing and delivering an introductory Python programming curriculum for community members across varying technical backgrounds, applying adaptive instructional techniques to make programming concepts relevant and accessible to learners
- Developing supplemental training modules that bridge introductory Python concepts to practical maker applications, including microcontroller implementations, LED animations, and motor drive programming for electromechanical projects
- Coding Python-based hardware simulators to teach programming logic without the cost or complexity of physical hardware
Related Aptitudes
Mechanical
SolidWorks | Creo Parametric | Fusion 360
Software
Python | SQL | MATLAB | Object-Oriented Programming | Git Bash | GitHub | Tableau
Python
Numpy | Pandas | Matplotlib | Scikit-Learn | SQLAlchemy | PySimpleGUI | TKinter
Database Management Systems
Microsoft SQL Server | PostgreSQL | MySQL
Data Engineering Practices
Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) | Extract, Transform, Load (ETL/ELT) | Data Warehouse/Lake | Data Exploration | Data Visualizations
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Elastic Cloud Computer (EC2) | Relational Database Service (RDS) | Simple Storage Service (S3) | Lambda | Step Functions | Cost Explorer
