Experience Highlights
Ford Motor Company | Data Engineer - Manufacturing & Quality | May 2024 - Jan 2025
• Provided data stewardship across 15 sources, resolving ETL issues to enhance data accuracy and reliability.
• Led cross-functional meetings, coordinating ETL pipelines migrating data to GCP, accelerating analytics delivery time.
• Developed six data products with Airflow, Python, BigQuery, streamlining aggregation of 500+ tables across ~30 Ford manufacturing plants.
• Optimized Python scripts and implemented Airflow best practices, reducing ETL pipeline development time by 75%.
• Created and centralized documentation to streamline new-hire onboarding for Data Stewards.
• Ranked 3rd in Ford’s Quality Hackathon, leveraging LLM technology to improve manufacturing quality.
• Reduced GCP costs by collaborating with source teams to review cloud resource usage and ensure efficient utilization.
Ford Motor Company | Data Engineer - IT Business Operations | Mar 2023 - May 2024
• Supported development of dashboards to provide insight to business users using Alteryx & QlikSense.
• Led migration from on-premises data storage and ETL processes to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), enhancing scalability, efficiency, and cost savings.
• Documented learnings and processes to minimize the learning curve for new teammates.
• Collaborated with stakeholders across departments to review business issues & deliver actionable insights.
Ford Motor Company | Data Governance Analyst | Apr 2021 - Mar 2023
• Built data ingestion pipelines using Alteryx, SQL, and Python to cleanse and aggregate data from various data sources and built out the team’s performance metrics.
• Assigned as Data Steward for two databases consisting of 300+ tables of data in Hadoop Hive.
• Investigated data discrepancies using various endpoints and UIs to compare with results from API calls.
• Maintained security policies for users, ensuring appropriate access based on data classifications and roles.
• Led team in transition to BMC Remedy ITSM for requests and incident reports submitted to the team.
• Collaborated with teammates to transition the access-provisioning process to GCP.
• Mitigated risk by developing an Alteryx workflow to review user access against required attestations, flagging non-compliant users, and generating an email list for reminders or access revocation.
Army Michigan National Guard | Budget Officer | Oct 2024 - Present
• Support budget execution of a multi-million-dollar budget for recruiting and retention purposes of National Guardsmen across the state of Michigan, ensuring compliance with fiscal policies & regulations.
• Refine current workflows to reduce labor hours used in manually processing data and to streamline reporting using Microsoft PowerAutomate and PowerBI.
• Develop annual financial plans aligned with unit priorities, maximizing resource efficiency and minimizing waste.
Army Michigan National Guard | Accounting/Finance Officer | Jan 2021 - Oct 2024
• Oversee Army pay, commercial vendor support, disbursement of public funds, auditing, travel allowances, accounting, financial management information systems and banking.
• Develop and present financial readiness training across the Brigade consisting of ~1,500 soldiers.
• Nominated as Contracting Officer Representative to manage contracts with commercial vendors.
• Supported the management of a 15 personnel Logistics section to complete required readiness training and perform duties as commanded.
Army Michigan National Guard | Operations Assistant | Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
• Assisted in the facilitation and planning of current and future operations for a 430-Soldier Battalion.
• Was responsible for asset management, including electronic equipment repair and service.
• Composed Operations Orders to extend guidance to subordinate units.
• Developed leadership abilities through mentoring soldiers to uphold Army Doctrine & Regulations.
Army Michigan National Guard | Computer/Detection Systems Repairer | Oct 2014 - Jan 2018
• Was responsible for asset management, including electronic equipment repair and service.
• Maintained various types of equipment in the unit including: electronic, mechanical, and safety.
• Documented status of equipment including changes and deficiencies.
• Mentored new soldiers to assist in on-boarding process.
Coupa Software | Technical Support Specialist | Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
• Assists internal users and external customers with installation, support, and license deployment.
• Provides first tier help desk support in customer installation troubleshooting of product offering.
• Utilize Salesforce.com to manage, track, and issue licenses for new purchases, renewals, partner projects, and training.
Skills
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Python, HTML/CSS, SQL, R, VBA, PHP
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Google Cloud Platform, SAP, Salesforce.com, Hadoop, MySQL
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MS Excel, QlikSense, Tableau, Alteryx, MS Power BI
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Financial Analysis, Month-end Closing, Risk Analysis
Master of Applied Data Science
University of Michigan
70% Completee
GPA: 3.5/4.0
BBA - Accounting Information Systems
Eastern Michigan University
Aug 2017 - Dec 2020
GPA: 3.42/4.0
Minor: Military Science & Leadership
Extracurricular Activities: ROTC, EMU Mentor Collective
AS - Criminal Justice
Washtenaw Community College
Aug 2012 - Jul 2017
GPA: 3.0/4.0
Volunteerism
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Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
On-call Firefigher for Milford Township Fire & Rescue.
Aug 2019 - May 2020
Mentored Freshmen at Eastern Michigan University to facilitate a smooth transition from highschool to college.