Garrett Dowdy

About Garrett Dowdy

I\'m an engineer who enjoys using mathematical optimization and algorithms to help people solve a variety of practical problems, ranging from the everyday (e.g, scheduling and assignment) to the highly technical (e.g, supply chain operation and engineering design).

Experience

1. Data Science Principal

   End-To-End Analytics, Part Of Accenture

   Dec 2021 — Present

   Projects included- Developing and implementing a column-generation algorithm for solving a large-scale linear program, helping an automotive manufacturer plan production across all plants in North America- Leading a team of PhDs in the development and deployment of a hierarchical optimization model for improved operation of an integrated circuit manufacturing supply chain- Setting up a Gurobi Compute Server for the use of Accenture employees: Implementing automated testing of code in three GitHub repositories using the native workflow feature, saving development time for the whole team. Both GitHub-hosted and self-hosted runners were used- Collaborating with teammates to develop and implement an efficient algorithm for finding an Irreducible Infeasible Subset of constraints in constraint programs and optimization problems- Developing a mathematical programming solution to the problem of finding subsets of parts with the maximum coverage of assemblies- Developing a mathematical programming solution to the problem of assigning customers to distribution centers, subject to a constraint bounding the number of distinct SKUs carried by each distribution center. The mathematical programming approach was initially thought to be intractable. I demonstrated otherwise.

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering

  2009 — 2013

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering

  2013 — 2018

Skills

• Optimization
• Chemical Engineering
• Matlab
• Simulations
• Engineering
• Microsoft Word
• Aspen Plus
• Scheduling