About Me.
I am a passionate creative in my penultimate year of a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Honours) / Bachelor of Computer Science. Through internships and study, I have developed technical skills such as software development in various languages, data science and data analysis, version control with Git, and fluency in Unix environments. Studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was a natural combination of my desire to create and my interest in technology. With a double major, I hope to apply a specialized skillset to bridge the gap between these industries.
In my role as a Grid Technology Intern at Energy Queensland, I am developing two machine learning projects. Both fall under a project to realise the benefits of smart meters, which are currently being rolled out across Queensland. The first one is an in-house semi-supervised machine learning solution to detecting neutral faults. Steps I have taken include building a modular data pipeline, data cleaning and preprocessing, feature engineering, labelling a training set, performing feasibility analysis on a basic model, tuning hyperparameters, exploring published research, and evaluating model performance. For my second project, I am exploring solutions to detecting transformers with incorrect ratings in our database. During this internship, I have regularly communicated progress to both technical and non-technical superiors by facilitating update meetings or sprints. To support these meetings, I have created and distributed slide decks to relevant stakeholders. I excel at teamwork, communication and writing thoughtful documentation. All of my projects are developed considering future maintainability, company value, and developer onboarding.
Throughout my life I have been a consistent high achiever. Some of my more recent achievements include being awarded the highly competitive Energy Queensland Future of Energy scholarship, being selected as 1 of 3 groups to present an engineering design project to my city’s council, and receiving academic excellence awards for my second and third years at university, placing me in the top 5% of my university’s student body.
Outside of university and work, I am a songwriter and rock-climber. Before discovering songwriting and guitar 9 years ago, I was obsessively writing stories and poems. As a result of this consistent practice, I have become highly skilled at effective communication with written language. Climbing has strengthened my ability to connect with a diverse range of people and remain dedicated to my goals. My five years of participation in the sport has supported my leadership skills as I have developed a love for teaching people how to climb outdoors. As somebody committed to sustainability and conservation, I strive to demonstrate “leave no trace” principles and stay educated on local ethics to maintain crag access and minimize my environmental footprint. These external pursuits are harmonious with my studies and have been critical to the development of my standout attributes.
In future roles, I hope to continue working on machine learning and data science projects alongside talented engineers.