Raytheon Technologies
Systems Engineer II
Tewksbury, Massachusetts USA
I work on the Qatar Air Defense Operations Center (ADOC) program as Qatar prepares for the upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup. I joined the program just as the U.S. Air Force awarded Raytheon with the responsibility to integrate the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) into the ADOC.
My responsibility was to design, implement, and maintain new features and enhancements of legacy features due to NASAMS integration. One such task was expanding our Threat Evaluation and Weapon Assignment (TEWA) algorithm for the new weapon platform. When designing new features, I had to build relationships with project stakeholders and program management, convincing them that the new features I had designed met the customers' stringent performance and operability requirements. I would then implement the solutions that I had designed. Our team had a strong Summer of 2021, and we were able to deliver our new features 2 months ahead of schedule.
While our teams began the transition into a maintenance cycle, I had the opportunity to lead a small team of junior engineers with the sole focus of preparing our software for new-customer demonstrations. We worked closely with our Business Development counterparts to iterate upon our software to highlight our value-based differentiators during demos. I would drive our software during these demos, occasionally answering technical or operational questions from high-ranking military officials. My team also developed materials compliant with Department of Defense export-control regulations for the generals to take back to their countries for further inspection.
We expect contracts resulting from these demos to be worth over 10 billion USD.
Achievements:
4x Formal Awards from Project Leadership for Software Development.
Formal Award from Program Leadership for Demo work.
Promoted to Systems Engineer II in April 2022
Slash 2 Esports
Software Engineer
Plymouth, Michigan USA
A small startup company in Michigan created an esports marking tool that tracks, measures, and monitors crucial information for both organizations and brands. Twitch sees an average of 15 million daily active users, so we wanted to create a platform that would allow brands to maximize the return on streaming sponsorships.
I created a program that would scrape Twitch chat and a streamer's live-stream audio to create audience profiles. These profiles would combine Twitch chat sentiment, brand interactions, demographic data, and more.
I then designed and implemented a commercial service using our audience profiles to recommend specific influencers to companies based on understanding the brand and the audience they wanted to reach.
Medion AG
Product Management Intern
Oberursel (Taunus), Germany
At Medion, I worked with the Product Management team to oversee the launch of a new education ultrabook in Switzerland and conducted gap analysis for virtual assistant integration in smart displays.
My primary responsibilities at Medion were overseeing our product release schedule was on track for the start of Back To School shopping. I was able to help cut our costs by 8% by sourcing accessories from a different supplier that met our specs. This allowed us to keep on our original release schedule while increasing our profits. In addition, I did extensive quality assurance on the sample products that would arrive daily from our suppliers, creating presentable materials and tracking defects for our team and leadership to review.
I also conducted a gap analysis for virtual assistant integration in smart displays. Leadership desired to understand the differences between each available option before choosing a virtual assistant. I presented my findings to the CTO, but just a few days later, he got a directive from the parent company announcing an exclusive smart assistant deal with Google.
Razer Inc
Global Marketing Intern
Singapore, Singapore
At Razer, I was able to bring my passion for gaming and passion for sports together.
I researched our customer profiles and found gaps in our customer demographics that we could capitalize on.
With the emergence of NFL stars like JuJu Smith-Schuster, who had large social media followings but were also avid gamers, I proposed to marketing leadership that seeding products to influences like them would break the mold that gaming is just for "nerds."
I reached out to WWE's Austin "Xavier Woods" Watson, NBA's Gordon Hayward, NFL's JuJu Smith-Schuster and Eric Berry, amongst others, to gauge interest in becoming partners with Razer. I left before negotiations were concluded but was later informed that they had signed three influencers on my shortlist to exclusive sponsorships.
While waiting for email responses, I also helped organize a social media campaign during ESL Cologne 2017, created a promotional tournament format that is still being used today, participated in product development and testing, and created internal training materials.
