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Gary Clark

Engineer & Soccer Enthusiast

Houston, TX

gclarkjr5@gmail.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gclarkjr5

gclarkjr5.github.io

(717) 798-6916


Technical Skills

Equipment Health Analysis

90%

Data Science & Analytics

80%

Coding/Programming

75%

Technical Presentation & Writing

50%

Soft Skills

Leadership & Team Collaboration

90%

Presentation & Public Speaking

75%

Customer Interfacing

80%

Innovating & Thinking Outside the Box

90%

Programming Languages

R

80%

Javascript & NodeJS

75%

Python

50%

Other: SQL, Spark, Pig, Hive

20%

Interests

Soccer

100%

Traveling

75%

Socializing

80%


Work Experience

Rolls-Royce

Data Engineer
Mar 2016 - Current
Houston, TX

Establish, build, and manage an Equipment Health Monitoring (EHM) platform for internal & external customers


  • Led project requirements captures to realize value streams for marine applications.
    Assignments included Norway, Germany, and UK.
  • Designed and built custom analytics suited to predict equipment failures
    • Large & Medium Diesel Engines, Gas Turbines, Electric Drives,
      Anchor Handling and Tug Systems
    • Conducted exploratory analysis of data, used data to build models of healthy equipment behavior & implemented best-fit predictive techniques for failure detection.
  • Developed web-based dashboards to communicate key metrics on performance of analytics to stakeholders
  • Employee Engagement:
    • Lead several fun office-wide activities to improve office cohesiveness & uplift spirits.
      Activities included: Scavenger Hunts, March Madness brackets, Office Minefield, Structures Challenge
    • Joined Rolls-Royce Women's North America Network and participated in several Diversity & Inclusion initiatives:
      Wellness Room, Flexible Working, Wellness Program
    • Coordinated and participated in "Sports Day".
      Extra-curricular sports with coworkers: Soccer, Volleyball, Ultimate Frisbee, Football & Basketball
  • Web Development:
    • Created a tool that streamed large amounts of time-series data, pivoted the results, passed them to the front-end via websockets, and tossed them into a CSV for downstream engineering tool compatibility. Wrapped it into an application.
      HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, NodeJS, Socket.io, Electron
    • Created a dashboard that visualized the performance of an EHM service's analytics on a monthly basis. Interactivity built into dashboard for users to drilldown and see a breakdown on areas of interest.
      HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, NodeJS, R, Socket.io, Highcharts
    • Created a dashboard that visualized metrics regarding data ingestion, data processing, and volume of notification traffic to customer.
      HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, NodeJS, R, Socket.io, Highcharts

Self

Data Guy & Web Developer
2014 - Current
Everywhere

Connect w/, embrace, and manipulate data, then display it via the web for public consumption


  • NCAA March Madness Bracket Challenge.
    Created a dashboard for all participants to see their standings in the challenge after each round. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, NodeJS, ExpressJS, Socket.io, Highcharts
  • Good Eating.
    As a result of a friendly challenge, created an app that shows the concentration of "Good" (3 or more stars on Yelp) restaurants in the surrounding area of college campuses via Google Maps.
    HTML, CSS, JavaScript, NodeJS, Yelp API, Data.gov API, Google Maps API
  • Raspberry Pi3 Fun.
    Stream real-time apartment temperature and humidity readings to a dashboard.
    HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MongoDB, Node-Red

Rolls-Royce

Service Engineer
Sep 2013 - Mar 2016
Houston, TX

Deliver EHM triaging service through Siemens for Oil & Gas and Power Generation customers globally


  • Reviewed and communicated equipment failures detected by predictive analytics to customers
    • Intense Trend and Data Analysis mixed with Engineering Judgement
  • Daily team collaboration on high-value failures. Output of discussions became
    direct inputs to development team for future analytics.
  • Assumed role as Lead Service Engineer in less than 6 months
    • Lead and coordinated weekly value-driven discussions with customer
    • Volunteered for internal and external audits
    • Delivered business presentations to internal and external Executives
    • Selected on solo travel to UK to perform requirements capture for integration of new customer business unit
  • Automation & R:
    • Automated manual detection of data ingestion & processing performance issues into reports with color-coding.
      Created metrics based on performance that became KPIs and discussion points for manager.
    • Automated daily summary emails to customer - saved team 10% of time.
    • Collected all Service Engineering KPIs into a web-dashboard.
    • Developed metrics from unused data to promote and defend Service Engineering

Education

Howard University
2009 - 2013
Washington, D.C

Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering

  • Focus in Energy and Power Plant design

West Virginia University
2008 - 2009
Morgantown, WV