From NASA mission control to atmospheric science, wind energy, and financial risk — analytics has been the constant across every chapter.
2019 – Present
AVP, Manager Credit Analytics
American Savings Bank · Honolulu, Hawaii
Built and validated the bank's fraud, BSA/AML, and credit risk model infrastructure from the ground up. Leads a team of analysts across CECL modeling, stress testing, credit policy, and a custom 1TB analytics database serving a $3B loan portfolio.
CECL Modeling
Fraud Analytics
BSA/AML
R · SQL · Power BI
Team Leadership
2018 – 2020
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Analyst
Judge Research · New York (Part-Time)
Built crypto analytics research infrastructure for a startup. Wrote R and Python pipelines correlating live exchange data with Telegram sentiment signals. Researched on-chain data products and ICO due diligence.
Blockchain
Sentiment Analysis
R · Python · API
2015 – 2019
Project Manager / Business Analyst
First Hawaiian Bank · Card Services · Honolulu, Hawaii
Dual PM and analyst across 10-12 concurrent card projects at Hawaii's only in-house credit card operation. Generated $1M annual interchange revenue through MCC-level spend modeling. Built a real-time ID&V anti-fraud application still in production today.
PMP Certified
Interchange Modeling
Fraud Prevention
TSYS · Mastercard
2013 – 2015
System Analyst, Information Systems
Hawaii Medical Service Association · Honolulu, Hawaii
Supported a complex mainframe system replacement project. Built data synchronization tools, SQL Server pipelines, SSIS packages, and SSRS reports across a large healthcare data environment.
SQL Server
SSIS · SSRS
Systems Integration
2010 – 2013
Senior Scientific Systems Engineer / Programmer-Analyst
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Greenbelt, Maryland
Two NASA contractor roles. Built a 50,000-line IDL atmospheric modeling program processing global tropospheric ozone from NASA Aura satellite data. Supported the real-time IDPS for the Suomi-NPP satellite (NASA/NOAA/DoD).
NASA Group Achievement Award ×2
IDL · Atmospheric Modeling
Satellite Data Processing
2008 – 2010
Wind Energy Analyst
Garrad Hassan America · Portland, OR & Beijing, China
Energy production assessments for 10+ utility-scale wind farms (20MW–1GW) across the US and Asia for the world's leading independent wind energy consultant. Reports delivered to banks and lenders as the basis for project financing decisions.
Wind Flow Modeling
WAsP · GH WindFarmer
Uncertainty Analysis
Capital Markets
2002 – 2008
Programmer / Research Associate
NOAA Mauna Loa Observatory · Hilo, Hawaii
Six years at the world's premier atmospheric monitoring station. Wrote 100,000+ lines of production IDL code for the Camera Lidar instrument. Built the data acquisition and control system for the NOAA Samoa Observatory lidar. Co-authored 11 peer-reviewed publications.
US Patent Contributor
11 Publications
IDL · C++ · Object Pascal
CCD Image Processing
2000 – 2001
Systems Engineer, Mission Control
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · Greenbelt, Maryland
Flight Operator at NASA mission control for the Earth Observing-1 satellite. Commanded satellite operations, executed stored command sequences for data transmission, and coordinated with ground stations worldwide.
NASA Mission Control
Satellite Operations
UNIX/Linux
