Though I may be doing engineering for school, I also have lots of other hobbies. I absolutely love playing and watching hockey and am a massive fan of the Edmonton Oilers. I also love cricket, football, and basketball. I love programming, especially when I'm making a game, and enjoy messing around with computer hardware as well. I also enjoy hanging out with my friends, especially out on an outdoor rink in the winter. I also enjoy doing sports statistical analyses, and am currently working on advanced analytical models for the NHL, MLB, and NBA in order to predict seasons and guage analytical values of players. I enjoy playing video games, particularly racing simulators, and also enjoy photography. I have played the guitar for over a decade now, and enjoy playing classic rock songs from The Police and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I have also started learning the piano and the drums, and hope to be as good at those as I am at the guitar. I am very big cinema fan and love analyzing movies to see why the director made the choices they did, and I also hugely enjoy listening to music. I enjoy building LEGO sets, especially the architechture sets, and I love collecting sports memorabilia like hockey cards and jerseys.

Education

BSc. Mechanical Engineering Co-op, University of Alberta • Expected Graduation June 2027

Academic Work Terms Completed: 3/8

Work Terms Completed: 0/5

Availability Starting May 2024: 8 months

First Class Standing, 2022 - 2023

Alberta High School Diploma, Strathcona High School • September 2019 - June 2022

Projects

General Member, University of Alberta Formula Racing Team • September 2023 - Present

Designing and fabricating undertray of car in order to increase rear tire grip of racing car in Solidworks and prototyping in a group of two

Designing pedal toe plates and heel cups to be as light as possible while also allowing driver to maintain control on brake and accelerator in Solidworks while mentoring a high school student

Writing program to collect and categorize suspension load data to ensure FSAE safety guideline compliance in a group of 3

Project Manager, MEC E 260 Design Project • September 2023 - December 2023

Led and managed a group of 6 working on a project designed to emulate an official engineering project in industry

Oversaw both design and fabrication process for entire project while designing and fabricating suspension and motor system as well as writing proposals, plans, and schedules and delegating tasks in order to maximize success

Produced design packages in Solidworks for suspension and motor and fabricated designs using power and hand tools with sheet metal, acrylic, and lumber

Work Experience

Store Associate, Sherwin-Williams Paints • July 2023 - Present

Handle over $3000/day of sales with industry professionals and retail customers as well as sustained and created positive professional relationships between company and clients

Provide paint and wall-covering solutions to southeast Edmonton as part of a 5 person crew

Operate and maintained machinery such as gyroscopic paint mixers, tinting machines, and pallet jacks, and lifted containers weighing upwards of 50 pounds, while maintaining high standards of safety

Complete up to 30 transactions and orders a day, working without supervision

Manage warehouse with over 150 different products, handled stock for both store front and back warehouse, and improved inventory strategy with recommendations for inventory management

Gained knowledge of Point-of-Sale software within a week in order to retrieve stock information, complete transactions, take and complete orders, and coordinate stock with neighboring stores without any instruction or supervision required

Translator, Sandal Translations • May 2023 - August 2023

Facilitated conversations between over 50 clients and various government agencies, workplace managers, and medical practitioners

Translated for Worker's Compensation Board and medical professionals in order for injured workers without English fluency to receive care and compensation required

Completed and translated official documentation for people with insufficient English skills to do so themselves

Research Assistant, University of Alberta • July 2022 - August 2022

Led and worked as a part of a team of 9 researchers in order to explore possibility of using Natural Language Processing as a teaching aid in order to pinpoint a student's lack of understanding

Utilized Natural Language Processing and dimension reduction algorithms to reduce a dimension space of 400 dimensions into a 2 dimensional space in order to visualize contextual connections between words in corpora totaling over 5 million words

Programmed in Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in order to create a website where connections between words can be explored in game form

Awards & Recognitions

Certified Solidworks Associate, Dassault Systèmes | 2023

First Class Standing, University of Alberta | 2022-2023

Honours with Distinction, Strathcona High School | 2019-2022

Advanced Placement Scholar with Distinction, College Board | 2022

Advanced Placement Certificates, College Board | 2022

Calculus AB

English 1 & 2

Computer Science A

Chemistry

Physics 1 & 2

European History

3rd Place, Iverson Computing Contest, University of Alberta | 2022

Alexander Rutherford Scholarship, Government of Alberta | 2022

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