Working With Teams
As a digital marketing manager for RP Exotics, I was tasked with showcasing the company to increase sales. However, the company grew to a size of over 25 members, and to accomplish my tasks, I had to effectively communicate with up to 5 members per social media post, which was exceedingly difficult, as schedules didn't often overlap. To combat this, I met with our dedicated content creator to discuss a social media pipeline, where he would handle communications between our detailers and lot manager in order to access vehicles for photoshoots, whereas I would communicate with our sales personnel and CEO to determine what vehicles were of the highest priority, listing them out for our content creator at the beginning of each day. This system resulted in a production time decrease of 55%, enabling us to expand our workload into physical media as a result.
Working With data
My love of all things automotive led me to the WashU Formula Student team during my first year at WashU. This team brings 80 of the university's finest engineers, designers, manufacturers, and computer scientists together to build a functioning race car to compete against over 100 other universities across the Americas. When I joined the team, there was a glaring issue that was detrimental to the team's performance: there was no way to get live data from the car as it was running. To solve this issue, I took it upon myself to create a complete website from scratch, receiving radio data from the car, and parsing it into real-time scatter- and line-plots measuring over 30 different data points. Everything from the G-forces experienced by the driver, to the speed of each individual wheel. Now, I hold the title of Head of Data, where I am responsible for the collection and distribution of every data point on the car, allowing every member of the team to accurately measure the impact of their work
Giving Presentations
This past summer, my on-campus startup was accepted into an accelerator hosted by our entrepreneurship center. This accelerator culminated in a 4-hour-long expo, giving us the opportunity to showcase our progress to members of the WashU and St. Louis communities. I was responsible for preparing the talking points that our entire 8-person team would speak to, as well as coordinating expo materials such as banners, flyers, and stickers. My efforts saw a 30% increase in early access signups for our app, and eventually led to the hiring of a skilled frontend developer to advance our progress even further.
Taking initiative
My research for the NASA Planetary Data System's Geosciences Node involved the creation of software to transform satellite data into images for public consumption. However, I was given extremely vague instructions on how exactly this should be done. To remedy this, I channeled my knowledge of Jupyter Notebooks to create an innovative new solution to transform data into PNG and TIFF files for use by researchers across the globe. On top of this, I also came to the realization that a user guide would be useful for this software, as the primary audience would be scientists and researches, not software engineers. I created the user guide and presented it to my manager, and it is now used internally among the Planetary Data System nodes across the country.
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