Summary
My journey into tech didn't follow the typical path — and honestly, that's the part I'm most
proud of. I went from waiting tables and spending 11 years on a skateboard, to working inside
a SCIF supporting what is now the largest AI military defense contract in the world, to building
data pipelines as a Junior Data Engineer — with zero formal programming background. Everything I
know I built through bootcamps, self-teaching, and a lot of late nights. I'm not afraid to dive
headfirst into things I don't know yet. That's kind of my whole story.
Experience
ECS · Full-time · 6 yrs 11 mos
Junior Data Engineer
Feb 2025 – Present
Fairfax County, VA · Hybrid
Technical Stack: Palantir Foundry, Python, PySpark, SQL
Data Engineering
Data Pipelines
ETL
PySpark
TS/SCI
Data Operations Manager
Jul 2024 – Feb 2025
Team Leadership
Palantir Foundry
Data Analytics
Project Management
Technical Project Analyst
Nov 2022 – Feb 2025
Fairfax County, VA · Hybrid
- Supported Technical Project Manager managing 10+ data scientists developing automated data pipelines, analytics, and products for the Apollo program.
- Planned, prepared, and led weekly team meetings to strategize objectives.
- Conducted analyses on large datasets using SQL, PySpark, and Palantir Foundry to generate reports and answers to government requests.
- Created high-quality interactive dashboards for filtering and interacting with large datasets.
- Developed presentations for senior management on continuing tasks and completed products.
Team Leadership
Palantir Foundry
TS/SCI
Classified Imagery Analyst Supervisor
May 2019 – Jan 2023
Springfield, VA · NGA (SCIF)
- Managed and led 20–30 imagery analysts to meet goals of quantity and quality.
- Developed onboarding training material for new hires.
- Supported the Apollo program by labeling imagery for a computer vision initiative across Full Motion Video and Overhead Aerial Imagery.
- Produced labeled outputs used to develop training, testing, and evaluation datasets for computer vision algorithms.
Imagery Analysis
TS/SCI
Team Leadership
Texas Roadhouse · Full-time
Server
Mar 2016 – May 2019
Fredericksburg, VA
- Delivered exceptional customer experiences managing orders, payments, and guest engagement.
- Trained servers and server assistants, demonstrating early leadership instincts.
- Reliable and accurate working with a diverse population.