Highlights
- Winner, 2025 INFORMS Military & Security Society Donald P. Gaver, Jr. Thesis Research Award.
- Finalist, MORS Stephen A. Tisdale Graduate Research Prize.
- Leading AI integration efforts at Naval Education and Training Command.
- Research collaborator on tropical-geometry and neural algorithmic reasoning projects at Naval Postgraduate School.
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Education
Naval Postgraduate School
M.S. in Operations Research
2022–2024 | GPA: 3.92/4.00
Honors & Awards:
- MORS Tisdale Graduate Research Prize finalist
- INFORMS Military and Security Society's 2025 Donald P. Gaver, Jr. Thesis Research Award winner
United States Naval Academy
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2015–2019
Highlights:
- 6th Company (XO, Wardroom Officer, Squad Leader)
- Service Rifle and Pistol Team
Experience
Data Scientist — Naval Education and Training Command
- Leading AI integration efforts, workforce training, and pilot project execution in the NETC domain.
- Supporting cross-functional teams to redesign Navy training with data-driven approaches.
- Building Databricks, Tableau, Power BI, and Excel products for senior leader decision support.
Research Collaborator — Naval Postgraduate School
- Contributed to tropical-attention research presented as a NeurIPS 2025 poster.
- Serving as experiment lead on research related to universal reasoning models.
Division Officer — U.S. Navy Pay and Personnel Support Center
- Built UiPath automations to reduce repetitive back-office processing requirements.
- Led Navy-wide transition activities from legacy systems to Salesforce CRM.
Certifications
Projects
Tropical CNNs
Experiment evaluating the robustness of tropical CNN approaches under adversarial perturbations.
View on GitHubAnti-Submarine Drone Warfare Simulation
Discrete-event simulation to estimate carrier-based drone force structure required for sustained anti-submarine operations.
View on GitHubInvestigating Naval Postgraduate School Return on Investment
Capstone analysis that developed metrics to communicate NPS educational ROI to Department of Defense stakeholders.
View on GitHubEval First Draft + FitRep First Draft Launch
Launched small production tools focused on accelerating Navy eval/FITREP drafting and captured key implementation lessons.
- Built and deployed front-end workflows for evalfirstdraft.com and fitrepfirstdraft.com.
- Set up API-backed generation flows and lightweight ALM practices (issue tracking, feedback loops, and iterative releases).
- Used early user feedback to improve reliability, prompt quality, and time-to-first-draft.