Welcome to my corner of the web. I’m a scientist, language lover, and all-around nerd.

Above you will find links to my current resume, portfolio, photos & contact information. Below, you will find my C.V.

I’m originally from Dallas-Fort Worth, TX. but currently live in Philadelphia, PA. With family from Canada and Northern Ireland, I am a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen and await approval for Irish/E.U. citizenship.

In my spare time, I love to travel, especially taking weekend trips throughout the northeastern U.S. and Canada. Learning languages is also a passion: I am fluent in French and learning Spanish and Korean (the latter… very slowly, but surely!)

I listen to a frankly absurd number of podcasts, audiobooks, and albums. I also try to keep my technical skills sharp by working on personal projects when I have time.

Lastly, I play rugby and volunteer through international gay rugby. I also try to make time to volunteer in my community, advocating for safer public transit and cycling opportunities.

Work Experience

Teacher (French, PE) Houston School of Performing & Visual Arts – Houston, TX.

AUGUST 2024 – PRESENT

Instructor for four sections of French I & French II with ~23 students each and two virtual Physical Education courses focusing on health and fitness concepts with ~200 students total, while providing campus tutoring support for STEM courses
Proactively addressed curriculum gaps, integrating open-source materials to ensure equitable access to instruction

Technical Advisor, Blank Rome – Philadelphia, PA.

JUNE 2024 – APRIL 2025

Technical advisor, focusing on drafting patent applications within semiconductor manufacturing and device design.
Assists with office action responses, reporting instructions to counsel across jurisdictions (EPO, CNIPA, JPO, etc.), claim charting and patent diligence.
Proficient in iManage web client and SharePoint for document management, FoundationIP for docket management, ClaimMaster and Rowan Patents for patent application drafting, Intapp Time for time-tracking, and Trello/Excel for managing a personal docket.
French speaker, available to assist staff with brief oral interpretations and to provide a general translation of written materials, enabling effective communication with international clients as well as basic Spanish reading/writing

Technical Specialist, Faegre Drinker – Wilmington, DE.

MARCH 2023 – JUNE 2024

Began as a graduate student intern in March 2023, and became full-time in July 2023
Drafted and revised patent applications within applied machine learning, chemical technologies, additive manufacturing, medical devices, and various mechanical devices (locks, agriculture technology, etc.)
Managed as an “entrepreneurial” style firm, where I was expected to reach out to partners to assist with client matters
Analyzed prior art to assess invention clearance, patentability, and to strategize office-action responses
Drafted client reporting letters and hosted direct client meetings for invention disclosure & regular updates
Proficient in PatSnap and Google Patents for patent searching, ChemDraw for drafting chemical figures, iManage DeskSite desktop client for document management, Intapp Time, and Trello for tracking reach-outs to colleagues & clients.

Quality Assurance Analyst Intern, OptionTrax – West Conshohocken, PA.

MAY 2022 – AUGUST 2022

Intern in the Quality Assurance department, testing new program features for implementation.
Wrote testing scripts for various financial events in a Cold Fusion & SQL environment.
Tracked overall QA project flow in Trello, and individual task management in SharePoint using a 2-week sprint format.

Patent Extern, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office – Alexandria, VA. (Telework)

JULY 2020 – AUGUST 2020

Worked in TC1700, on patents related to chemical & materials engineering
Used EAST/PE2E for searching for prior art, and other NPL searching methods
Helped to write up multiple office actions, such non-final application rejections, citing literature in the MPEP.

Education

Master of Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering – Rowan University

AUGUST 2021 – AUGUST 2023

3.856 / 4.0, Alpha Epsilon Lambda honors
Certificate of Graduate Studies in Machine Learning
Thesis title: “Intelligent Materials Discovery for Non-Volatile Switching Devices”

Honors Bachelor of Science, Chemistry & French – Lyon College

AUGUST 2017 – MAY 2021

3.877 / 4.0, Magna Cum Laude
Minors in Math & Physics
Honors program independent research contracts
- FA18, PHY 335 Modern Physics: “Optical Deficiency Measurement Instrumentation Review”
- SP21, FRN 320 Advanced Linguistics & Phonetics: “Francophone Theatre: A Tool for Phonetic Pedagogy & Cultural Understanding”
Major Projects
- Chemistry: Senior design project, “Exploring Thermal Conductivity of Graphene–Nickel–Graphene Heterogeneous Films”
- French: Thesis project, “How Jules Verne connects Chemistry to Our Anthropocentric World in The Mysterious Island“

Research Experience

Graduate Research Fellow, Rowan University – Glassboro, NJ.

AUGUST 2021 – AUGUST 2023

Primary Investigator: Dr. Dwaipayan Chakraborty

Curated a database of materials used in non-volatile switching devices (non-volatile materials), and implemented various machine-learning frameworks to classify against conductors, insulators, and general metal-oxide semiconductors; used the Materials Project API to query information for classification
Created and implemented novel data-management methods to regularize database size
Developed a novel method to simplify highly variate bandstructure data into representative feature vectors
Used numerous machine learning frameworks, via SKLearn and Keras, to classify materials by their chemical and physical properties, reduced bandstructures, and a combination of both, improving accuracy of classification
Deployed numerous explainable AI techniques for simple feature ranking, as well as SHAP and LIME to identify specific feature importance for individual classified materials

Undergraduate Researcher, Lyon College – Batesville, AR.

AUGUST 2019 – MAY 2021

Primary Investigator: Dr. Burt Hollandsworth

Refined a computational counting method to determine the number of unique isomers of various metal complex structures
Worked in the chemistry department under Dr. Burt Hollandsworth refining the synthesis of an 8-coordinate metal-ligand, and measuring its effectiveness via UV-Vis

Research Experience for Undergraduates, University of North Texas – Denton, TX.

MAY 2018 – AUGUST 2018

Primary Investigator: Dr. Oliver Chyan

Explored etch suppressant of Al2O3 in NH4F spiked with inhibiting compounds, and Cu protection in highly corrosive environments using Chemical Vapor Deposition
Presented research poster February 20th 2019, at the Arkansas State Capitol
Presented research orally April 5th 2019, at the Alpha Chi National Convention

Activities & Leadership

Philadelphia Gryphons

Player & Volunteer (2022-Present)

Forward on the team, attending practice weekly and games most weekends.
Volunteer for team fundraising events and outreach events for the greater Philadelphia community (school supply drives, toy drives, Philly Pride march, etc.)
Assist with filming games for coach review when not playing

InterVarsity Queer Bible Study

Member (Spring 2022 – Spring 2023)

Attended a weekly bible study and outreach group, ran by queer young professionals under Temple University InterVarsity.

Lyon College Honor Council

Fall 2017- Spring 2021

Elected Senior Representative & President (FA19-SP20)

Presided over all pre-hearings, full hearings, & sanction hearings.
Held weekly meetings with our Dean of Students weekly to ensure that the honor council system was running smoothly
Drafted, submitted, and presented a yearly report of honor council outcomes from the 2018-2019 year to the faculty, staff, and board of trustees
Transitioned the council to remote proceedings due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Elected Junior Representative & Vice President (FA18-SP19)

Elected as a second-year student, with junior class standing.
Sat on all pre-hearings, full hearings, & sanction hearings.
Presided as president when the president was unavailable
Followed up with students to ensure that sanctions were being completed and that the Honor System was effectively rehabilitating students to study in the Lyon College community.

Elected Freshman Representative (FA17-SP18)

Investigated students in assigned cases of academic misconduct
Helped design a more consistent system of investigation and sanctioning, based on case precedent
Helped draft a report to the Higher Learning Commission regarding the honor system

Tau Kappa Epsilon, Xi-Tau Chapter

Spring 2018 – Spring 2021

Philanthropy Chair (FA19 – SP20)

Began a monthly philanthropy event system, and raised ~4,000$ by the end of the year despite the COVID-19 pandemic closing our campus in March.
Scheduled “TKE Week” a week of non-stop philanthropy events, raising $900 in local business sponsorships.
Scheduled a trip to the St. Jude Headquarters in Memphis, partnered with Lyon’s chapter of the American Medical Students Association.

Treasurer (SP18 – FA19)

Acted as CFO for a 20+ member chapter, managing over $10,000 in transactions
Updated and began storing our records in Excel, programming them to auto-populate with dues owed each month

Lyon College French Club / Pi Delta Phi French Honor Society

Fall 2017 – Spring 2021

Président (FA20-SP21)

From January to April 2020, taught a French language & culture class to a group of 4th-6th graders with two other French students from Lyon, focusing on learning basic French phrases as well as cultural information on the francophone world at large.
Created Le Coin Français a French-immersion Living-Learning community. Lived in immersion housing for 2 years before graduation.
Le Coin Français earned the residence life “Spotlight Award” for “exemplifying the mission of Common Interest Community housing.”
Chartered the Pi Omega chapter of Pi Delta Phi, the national collegiate French honors society
Adapted campus cultural events to a virtual format to accommodate remote instruction in the Fall 2020 semester
Adapted Spring 2021 campus cultural events to accommodate social distancing procedures.

Lyon College Concert Chorale & Musical Theatre

Fall 2017 – Spring 2021

Member of concert chorale, bass & tenor
2018 selected bass singer for statewide collegiate choir for Arkansas all-state
Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar concert review, Spring 2018
Audio Director for Not I / Footfalls black-box show, Spring 2019
Man 2 in Songs for a New World mainstage show, Spring 2020
Jamie in The Last 5 Years mainstage show, Spring 2021

Additional Experience

Analytical & Development Intern, FutureFuel – Batesville, AR.

JANUARY 2019 – MARCH 2020

Scaled-up synthesis of varying types of C-18 betaine surfactants from pilot to 250g
Began a study creating novel “gemini” surfactants with various spacing groups
Analyze fine chemical samples to record their physical and chemical properties
Instrumentation includes: FT-IR, NMR, Auto-Titration, HPLC, GC, & DSC
Left position due to COVID-19 pandemic

Process Technology & Design Summer Intern, Hexion – Stafford, TX.

MAY 2019 – AUGUST 2019

Received internship via the American Chemical Society / Society of Chemical Industry Scholars program
Scaled up the synthesis of an interfacial surfactant to 250g, ran a waterborne trial to make a dispersion of surfactant to validate its efficacy and find its particle size
Ran an accelerated shelf-life study on 4 epoxy dispersions to investigate the source of rheological instability of surfactants made at other plants to find process differences
Ran a food & school supply drive for the Houston Foodbank, collecting ~$1,100

Tutor, Lyon College Morrow Academic Center – Batesville, AR.

JANUARY 2020 – MAY 2021

Current physics tutor for ~40 students in all fundamental and advanced physics courses.
Tutor of the month October 2020
SP20 Tutor for ~30 students, for the Beginning French I & II, Intermediate French II, and upper-level french elective courses.
Created interactive methods of content review, such as Memrise decks customized for course content review.
Tutor of the month April 2020, during the transition to online tutoring following the COVID-19 outbreak.

Resident Assistant, Lyon College – Batesville, AR.

AUGUST 2018 – MAY 2019

Managed a dorm of 14 male students, mostly freshman athletes. Developed, scheduled, and ran community development programs, focusing on “Embracing Cultural Diversity,” “Bouncing Back after Midterm Stress” and “Unwinding before Finals Season” each with over 80% student attendance.
Left the position to live in a French-Immersion Living Learning Community that I founded

Sports Media Assistant, Lyon College – Batesville, AR.

AUGUST 2017 – MAY 2018

Worked as a cameraman, participation tracker, scoreboard operator, etc. for the Lyon College Scots. Operated a very simple handheld camcorder, streaming for an online audience.
Left to pursue work more in-line with my career goals.

Camera Operator, Allen Americans Professional Hockey Club – Allen, TX.

OCTOBER 2015 – MAY 2017

Worked as a cameraman operating a SONY PowerHAD-EX camera streaming hockey to a live audience and relaying information to a Technical Director. Worked in tandem with DJP Productions filming Soccer and Arena Football. Operated both shoulder-mounted cameras and standing tripod camera.

Performing Arts Center Production Crew, Allen High School – Allen, TX.

NOVEMBER 2013 – MAY 2017

Crew-Head on multiple productions, leading a team of ~4 audio technicians in placing microphones, troubleshooting feedback and signal loss, and designing soundscapes and effects within QLab. Experience working with a Technical Director as a stagehand, running propresenter, QLab files, followspots, cameras, audio and light boards. Technical director on one black box theatre production.

Eagle Stadium Crew, Allen High School – Allen, TX.

APRIL 2015 – DECEMBER 2016

Worked as a camera crew member operating a JVC GY-HM850U camera streaming to a live audience as well as recording football, graduations, etc. Assistant Cameraman responsibilities such as troubleshooting, gripping, etc. Operated exclusively a shoulder mounted camera on the field.

Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, Arkansas Conductor – Conway, AR.

MAY 2018

Researched severe issues in healthcare and decided to come up with a solution to create software to decrease the readmission rates of mental health patients post-discharge
Contacted experts to conduct field research on the prevalence of these issues, determine general trends in the variables that cause readmission, and validate our solutions potential efficacy
Presented research May 25th at University of Central Arkansas

Parks & Recreation Summer Camp Counselor, City of Allen – Allen, TX.

JUNE 2017 – AUGUST 2017

Lead groups of ten 3rd-6th and 6th-8th graders through exploring the wilderness and taught them the basic skills of survival and safety. Reported to head of camp on new curriculum ideas and student involvement, such as tie-dye target practice with water guns, and creating a map using orienteering skills.

Director, “A Horrible Musical”, Independent Theatre Production – Allen, TX.

JUNE 2016 – APRIL 2017

Artistically directed A Horrible Musical – a theatrical adaptation of the film Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog. Adapted the script for the stage, created playbills and flyers for the production, contacted numerous venues to secure rehearsal spaces and a performance venue, communicated with actors and technicians to relay rehearsal information and provide notes, communicated with directors and producers to clarify issues and report on progress, and collected over 200$ in donations which went to the local high school for the Theatre and Music programs.

Leadership Intern, USPTO Camp Invention – Allen, TX.

MAY 2016

Leadership Intern for “Camp Invention” – a STEM centered camp created by the USPTO for rising 1st through 6th graders. Lead 20 rising first-grade students through a camp which taught the fundamentals of Physics, Urban Development, Geology, Electricity and Electronics, and Sustainability.

Volunteer Crew, ELCA National Youth Gathering – Detroit, MI.

JUNE 2015

Participant at “Rise Up, National Youth Gathering” – a 10,000 person volunteering event to clean up and raise money for the city of Detroit. Worked on a committee tasked with beautifying the surrounding neighborhoods through garbage collection, road repair, etc.