A compilation of employment and entrepreneurial experiences.
Career Work
Cofounder
PopEye Labs
August 2022 - June 2023
PopEye is the world’s first 24/7, autonomous anchor-monitoring system, offering a solution to anchoring malpractice. At the intersection of mechanical design, electronics, and computer vision, our "camera-in-a-box" both solves the problem of anchor loss, malfunction, and danger, and takes the first step toward fully autonomous, more sustainable anchoring for large commercial vessels.
Summer Business Analyst
McKinsey & Company
May 2022 - August 2022
During my 10-week summer internship at McKinsey, I drove a Firm-wide talent attraction transformation with focuses on sourcing, diversity, and experience. I built a comprehensive, global communications strategy encompassing the transformation’s 16 unique workstreams and owned the ‘Virtual Experience’ initiative and workstream, establishing the Firm’s perspective on talent attraction in the metaverse and on other virtual platforms
Chief Financial Officer
AgriSense
August 2022 - January 2023
A mock venture developed through Penn Engineering’s Entrepreneurship program, AgriSense provides drone-based crop monitoring services to small-medium scale farmers in the Philadelphia area.
Summer Engineering Intern
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
May 2021 - August 2021
At PG&E, I interned in the ‘Backbone Planning’ department under mentor Kevin Wong. The department’s aim is to drive the company forward with new modern and innovative engineering practices. My work focused on the assimilation of renewables into the largest natural gas network in the nation. I conducted extensive research on the effect of accommodating Hydrogen into the existing natural gas stream, and performed countless simulations on self-created and pre-existing Synergi models to identify the feasibility of a more renewable stream.
Teaching Assistant
MEAM247 - the Mechanical Engineering Department's sophomore design lab at the University of Pennsylvania - under Dr. Bruce Kothmann. Here I led a lab section focused on experimentation, held office hours for teaching and advising, and graded reports.
August 2021 - February 2022
Hiser-York Hay Company
During the summer of 2020, I embraced the global pandemic and kept myself busy through some old-fashioned manual labor. With the Hiser-York Hay Company I unloaded and stacked 300-600 50-150lb bales of hay daily and maintained $50,000+ of inventory for 5 months.
March 2020 - August 2020
Mechanical Engineering Ambassador
As a MEAM Ambassador, I promoted inclusivity, diversity, and togetherness throughout the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Pennsylvania. I had the privilege of being the program's pioneer, leading the development of the department.
September 2020 - May 2021
Smoothie King # 0889
My first job, as a high-schooler I worked ~15 hours a week at Smoothie King while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. I performed tasks like smoothie making, prepping, managing inventory, up-selling/cross-selling, customer interactions, and more. After receiving the branch's quickest-ever promotion (just 2 months on the job), I oversaw coworkers, handled customer complaints, and accounted for over $1,000 nightly.
June 2018 - January 2019