Education

MAS, Data Science and Engineering
- University of California San Diego

BA, Cognitive Science, Music, Computer Science
- University of Virginia

Professional Experience

Industrial Engineer, UPS (6 years)
- Planned logistics and resource needs for transition to first automated facility in Colorado
- Responsible for forecasting projections using proprietary big data management and analysis tools
- Maintained service area map relational database and on-road work measurements for 4 states

Community Development Consultant, U.S. Peace Corps, Ukraine (2 years)
- Opened a Community Education Center, hired and trained director and staff, developed a sustainable business plan, and created programs serving 270 local participants of all ages

Core Skills

Spoken languages:
- English (native), Ukrainian (proficient), Russian (basic)

Speech Processing:
- TTS/Speech Synthesis, ASR, Praat, Corpus Development

Data management tools, exploratory data analysis:
- Python, Pandas, SciPy

Machine learning, LLMs, deep learning, neural networks:
- Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch

Relational database systems:
- SQL, Postgres, Oracle

Graph database systems:
- XML, XQuery, JSON, PartiQL, Neo4j, Cypher, SparQL

Large data sets, cloud-based and parallel computing:
- Hadoop, Spark, AWS, Data Lake

Mathematical basis for data models:
- probability, statistics, principle component analysis (PCA)

Data visualization:
- Tableau, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Dash

Additional programming language experience:
- C++, R

Project management:
- SharePoint

Additional topics:
- Natural language processing (NLP), time series analysis, regression models, supervised and unsupervised learning, ETL, knowledge graphs

Community Leadership

IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Societies
- Academic excellence and service, including STEM outreach in local schools

San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus
- Outreach and activism through musical performances supporting LGBTQ+ communities
- International cross-border collaboration with Coro Gai de Tijuana, filmed and broadcast by PBS