Danh (Deon) Tran

Curious data scientist with an eye on UX/DX design and system automation.

Kansas City, MO, USA

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About

Highly skilled in simplifying and deconstructing complex problems to deliver custom-built solutions in defense engineering. Proficient in all things data - genetic ai, data engineering, and data analytics. Huge focus on system automation. Known for extreme thoroughness.

Work Experience

U.S. National Security Campus, Honeywell, DOE
Q Clearance

2022 - Present

Lead Data Scientist

Led advanced ML modeling and data engineering initiatives for innovative manufacturing processes, leveraging High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems, Cloudera Hadoop Big Data clusters, and Dataiku for robust data collection and in-depth analysis. Head of the Automation Team.

Mechanical Engineer III

2019 - 2022
Provided data-driven design and manufacturing strategies for nuclear weapons production, focusing on predictive modeling and data science-supported simulations.

Naval Surface Warfare Center, United States Navy, DOD
Secret Clearance

2015 - 2019

Mechanical Simulation Engineer

Certified design robustness through predictive data analytics; engineered simulation experiments for submarine configurations; and conducted large-scale numerical computations on High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters.

Sikorsky, Lockheed Martin

2012 - 2012

Engineer Co-op

NASA

2009 - 2010

Engineer Intern

Academic Research Experience

Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center, UMCP

2013 - 2014

Research Asssitant

Full lifecycle R&D from computer modeling to wind tunnel testing of functional scaled model

Gamera Human Powered Helicopter, UMCP

2013 - 2014

Research Assistant and Pilot

Developed and fabricated lightweight rotor blades and helicopter structure from composites

Education

University of Maryland College Park

2010 - 2014
B.S. Mechanical Engineering

Korea University, South Korea

2013 - 2013
Mechanical Engineering, Semester Abroad

Skills

Simulations
Consulting
Programming: Python, Bash, Javascript, React, Spark
Genetic AI
Data Engineering
Data Analytics
Full Stack App Development
Machine Learning
LLMs
Big Data

App Dev Projects

Teachers Worksheet Generator

Generates practice problem worksheets for teachers. Full experience on Desktop.

Next.js
SaaS
OpenAI

KitSNAP

Gear builder for niche hobbies. Lookup and compare repository.

Vite.js
Webscrapper
React

Diagram Mapper

Modern and user-friendly diagram mapper. Heavy on design and UX.

Vite.js
Webscrapper
React

U.S. States Trivia

Design project for trivia web app

Design
React
Netlify

Clicker Reaction Game

Reaction based clicker game designed to measure and train reaction skills.

Game
React

Daily Macro Tracker

Smart Journal for Keeping Track of Daily Nutritional Goals

React
MySQL
OpenAI

Stock Earnings Hub

Design project for a central earnings dashboard. Built with Next.js and Vercel

Next.js
Stocks
Front-End Only

Terminal Journal App

A simple, terminal-based journaling application leveraging Tmux.

Bash
Tmux
Journal
linux