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Hi! I’m Jack, an aspiring data scientist studying at Carnegie Mellon University.


Experience

Technical Intern - Northrop Grumman
May 2023 - Present

  • Wrote various Python + Ansible scripts for data parsing, digital asset management, and other engineering tasks
  • Automated software downloads with Powershell
  • Engaged in daily Scrum meetings with the software engineering team
  • Shadowed DevOps engineers performing various tasks, including systems troubleshooting
  • Introduced design software Figma to several engineers, who now use the tool regularly
  • Used Microsoft 360 tools (Powerpoint, Excel, Visio) to develop documentation for the setup of various hardware + software

Director of Marketing - Physics for the Planet
Aug 2022 - Jun 2023

  • Developed sitemap for student-run nonprofit covered on local and national news outlets including FOX 40 + Digital Journal
  • Edited emails for the outreach team + articles for the blog
  • Wrote web copy + currently revising the UX writing/design for the site

Level II Math Tutor - Mathnasium
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

  • Tutored subjects from elementary math to algebra II
  • Worked with up to 9 students in 1-2 hour sessions per workday

Skills

Software

Jira, Confluence, Microsoft 360, Figma, Slack, VS Code, Command Line, Trello, Jekyll, Git, GitHub, Ubuntu, Ansible, GPG

Languages

R, Python, Powershell, C, C#, JavaScript, HTML, MarkDown, SQL

Modules/Packages

Tidyverse, dplyr, ggplot2, threading, NumPy, Beautiful Soup, requests

UX Research Methods

Affinity Diagrams, Interviews, Surveys, Fly-On-The-Wall Observations


Education

Certifications/Credentials

Carnegie Mellon University (2022-2026)

Courses Taken

  • 15-112: Fundamentals of Programming
  • 21-120: Differential and Integral Calculus (Calc I)
  • 21-122: Integration and Approximation (Calc II)
  • 21-256: Multivariate Analysis (it was more like Calc III than real analysis tbh)
  • 21-127: Concepts of Mathematics (Discrete Math)
  • 21-240: Matrix Algebra with Applications (Linear Algebra)
  • 67-309: Information Assurance
  • 17-331: Information Security, Privacy, and Policy
  • 17-735: Engineering Privacy in Software
  • 36-200: Reasoning with Data
  • 36-202: Methods for Statistics & Data Science
  • 36-315: Statistical Graphics and Visualization
  • 36-235: Probability and Statistical Inference I
  • 36-236: Probability and Statistical Inference II
  • 36-350: Statistical Computation
  • 76-107: Writing About Data

Extracurriculars/Clubs/School Projects

Analysis of USA Police Killings in 2015 - CMU Department of Statistics and Data Science

  • Performed statistical analysis on online dataset via R
  • Sanitized dataset through dplyr and Tidyverse packages
  • Developed complex statistical visualizations via ggplot2
  • Link to publication

Byzantine Robustness for Fed_IoT_Guard

  • Deployed mathematical techniques to improve federated learning framework’s resistance to data poisoning attacks
  • Performed extensive research on federated learning, data privacy, and data poisoning
  • Link to publication

Design for America

  • Worked with team to revise School of Computer Science’s Research Position posting list (think of it like Indeed, but for CMU research positions)
  • Helped devise survey for user feedback on old design
  • Organized several one-on-one interviews to discuss user feedback on old design

The Writing Academy

  • Met with mentor several times across school year to discuss career goals (specifically for technical writing)

Disclaimer

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