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Communicate my skill set
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Market analysis
Lead generation + marketing
Real time dashboards
Algorithm design
Data collection and analysis
Digital + physical prototyping
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ANDREW
AGOSTINI
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Very curious + independent
In Scouts for 16 years - became an Eagle Scout
$40k scholarship to Bradley University
Competed on Battle Bots
Graduated as Mechanical Engineer
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Remote control flame thrower
Rube Goldberg machines
Wooden race cars (shoe box sized)
Wooden race carts (human sized)
Firecracker powered mini canon
Firework bazooka
RC boats (miniature Spirit of Peoria)
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Few mechanical engineers in my class embraced programming
Practiced a winning design process: Research, Prototype, Test, Improve, Repeat
My design was 100% more efficient
My design cycle was 100% faster
Don't be afraid to bend (break) the rules
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Started in 2013
Employee #7
Engineer #1
Created process to reduce wire harness fabrication time by 33%
Seamlessly integrated our sensor offering into Polaris off road vehicle
Did not sleep
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Solely Managed a $30k project for the DARPA Robotics Challenge
Courted customer
Managed time & budget
Designed restraint
Established + worked with suppliers
Integrated fail safe system.
Velin Dimitrov, WPI Team Captain
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Worked on really cool things at AutonomouStuff but the pay was poor
Made great money working at Caterpillar but the work wasn't as cool
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Risky but not that risky: worst case I'd be able to rebound from total failure
Have the freedom to choose projects
Able to learn on my own terms
Pay will be poor in the beginning and potentially for a long time
Payoff will be big
· Overview
· Origin story
· Scious is born
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· Overview
· Origin story
· Scious is born
· The process
Market analysis
Lead generation + marketing
Real time dashboards
Algorithm design
Data collection and analysis
Digital + physical prototyping
· Overview
· Origin story
· Scious is born
· The process
Beach side consultants can't match my level of curiosity + insight (City of Peoria)
In vivo consulting (Eat & Evolve)
Read scientific journals
Go the the library and check out books
Call on the experts (compression algo)
Experimentation
Scripting
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Aunt Yogi's Kitchen
Took 8 hours
Broke the problem down into 12 smaller problems
Built financial model
Profit - Revenues + Costs + 0 = 0
0 + Revenues + 0 - [(1 + Food_margin) * Food_cost] = 0
0 + 0 + Costs - Food_cost = Lease_cost + Labor_cost
0 - Revenues + (Percent_profit + 1) * Costs + 0 = 0
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CEFCU
Took 400 hours
Broke the problem down into 273 smaller problems
Lots of challenges in collection, and cleaning of data from three government databases
Challenges with crowdsourcing
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TADA Cognitive Solutions
Took about 40 hours
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Tradekeeper (internal project)
1000 + hours
Broke the problem down into 816 smaller problems
Collected and cleaned over 3 million insider trading documents
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Tradekeeper
Mealfu
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