Career & Goals

I am interested in going into transportation and/or water resources in the future. So, as a student at Florida Poly, I am developing the technical skills necessary to contribute to our constructed environment while hopefully minimizing the environmental impact of development.

I am currently learning 2D AutoCAD, MATLAB, Geographic Information Systems, and advanced mathematics, overall strengthening my ability to approach technical problems with creative and precise solutions. I am personally most inspired by one day taking on rebuilding and retrofitting infrastructure projects that would directly benefit the quality of life of communities affected by past mismanaged development decisions.

I’ve also been involved with my university’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Student Chapter, allowing me to attend guest lectures from engineering interns and professional engineers, broadening my understanding of project planning.

Through my extracurricular experience working with AutoCAD, I have worked on labeling existing and proposed project elements using top-down views and elevation cross-sections, including accurate, to-scale measurements.

Currently, I am looking forward to attending an internship opportunity at the City of Evanston over the summer, where I can further develop my drafting skills in a professional environment, with real, hands-on experience.

In the future, I am interested not only in project planning and management, but also in helping develop advanced tools that can rapidly modernize the software systems that civil engineers use, as I’ve learned many municipalities’ engineering departments use antiquated systems to store measurement data and plans, and even simple improvements could increase efficiency. Improvements both effectively save taxpayers’ money and allow engineers to take on more projects that improve people’s quality of life.