Danh (Deon) Tran

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

Kansas City, MO, USA

DT

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, DOE operated by Honeywell
Q Clearance (Higher than TOP SECRET)

2024 - 2025

Lead Data Scientist

Leading data pipeline modernization effort for manufactured weapon technology, leveraging Cloudera Hadoop stack and Dataiku platform, resulting in improved cross enterprise data ingestion data cataloging, and data quality. Collaborated with engineering and operations teams to design scalable data architectures, aligning technical strategies with organizational digital transformation goals. Lead a team of BI admins driving MicroStrategy platform adoption across the enterprise, enabling data-driven decision making through both traditional data warehouse solutions and advanced big data analytics. Successfully increased user engagement and empowered teams to develop meaningful KPIs through enhanced visualization capabilities.

Senior Data Scientist

2022 - 2024
Provided data-driven design and manufacturing strategies for nuclear weapons production, focusing on predictive modeling, statistical methods, and modeling simulations. Founded and lead an engineering automation team; facilitating the adoption of the latest AI and ML solutions while streamlining processes, enhancing software efficiency, and significantly reducing error margins in high stakes environments.

Mechanical Engineer III

2019 - 2022
Provided consultation and timely root cause analysis for unexpected and costly manufacturing challenges in 20+ projects including high-profile internal and client-facing engagements; contributed to bringing in +$50,000 cost saving in first month. Facilitated large-scale projects in a HPC cluster environment, driving significant improvements in design solutions.

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.

Engineer Co-op

NASA

2009 - 2010

Engineer Intern

Academic Research Experience

Research Asssitant

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

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