Andrew Culkin | Employment

In early 2022 I started working at Hover with the Homeowner Engagement team. Hover is a 3D imaging company focusing on exterior home improvement visualizations. Using the mobile app, a user takes 8 photos of a house (or structure), and the app constructs a 3D model of the home that can be customized with different products for siding, roofing, windows, gutters and a lot more.

HOVER, Inc. Website

In early 2021, I co-founded and led the engineering team for a startup company called Bot Watt in the Renewable Energy data market. Our idea is that we can provide differentiated data and revenue information about clean energy projects and generating facilities. Utilizing API's, web scraping, and public records requests, we assembled a list of over 300,000 clean energy projects and generating facilities across the United States. We also put together a database of project owners which included over 7000 companies who owned, developed or were involved with the construction of renewable energy assets.

Bot Watt Website

In mid 2019, I co-founded and led the engineering team for a startup company Roof Rally, an online marketplace for homeowner roofing needs. My team and I built a progressive web application that allowed homeowners to easily gather prices and quotes for their roofing projects from local roofing contractors. Roof Rally launched in March of 2020 and over the next few months, we had some initial success with contractors subscribing to our platform. Unfortunately, due in part to the on-going Covid-19 pandemic, Roof Rally struggled to gain enough traction to continue operations. We eventually made the touch decision to shut down operations in the late fall of 2020.

Roof Rally Website

At EY I worked as a Technology Risk consultant in the IT Risk Advisory practice for about 2 years. This position involved working closely with senior management in the IT risk functions of several Fortune 500 companies to improve various aspects about the IT Risk programs at their companies. One project I worked on involved developing the IT Risk program from scratch for a recently spun off life insurance company. We worked with different business functions to ensure that they had the proper IT controls in place to adequately address risks. If they didn’t already have the appropriate controls in place, we would propose new controls to be implemented from the EY IT Risk and Control framework. Another project I worked on involved developing a classificaiton system and tool to facilitate third party risk assessments. We developed this classification system using general ledger data as well as information we obtained from meeting with stakeholders for the various business functions.

Ernst & Young Website

At ECA Solar, a small solar development company, I worked as a system design engineer for about 6 months after graduating college. During my time at ECA, I designed and engineered several large scale rooftop solar systems that are currently still operational. Since it was such a small company, I was also heavily involved with the development process from project origination to engineering and design. I also put together financial models for potential projects the company was interested in developing. One of the lasting impacts I had on ECA was a tool I made for calculating the optimal inverter sizes for projects given several constraints. The tool automatically showed the optomized inverter sizing based on the target AC/DC ratio and the types of inverters to which the company had access, which saved hours of development time for each project.

ECA Solar Website

During my internship at EY, I worked with a large bank in NYC to build out their updated Third Party Risk Management function. We developed a system for assessing the risk of using specific third parties including the information they received, and the impact they have on the business. The program we developed was used to determine the frequency with which third parties needed to be re-assessed for proper internal controls.

Ernst & Young Website

I spent the summer of 2015 in Minneapolis Minnesota working on an engineering team at Thermo King, the industry leader in transport refrigeration. While at Thermo King I wrote the standardized procedure for the tear down off field test units and I helped develop several efficiency tweaks involving the fin array used for expelling heat from the refrigeration units. I also volunteered to transport a set of parts down to the manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico during an emergency shortage. Due to market conditions at the time, all of the trailer refrigeration units Thermo King was able to produce were backordered, so we needed to ensure production didn’t stop because of one missing part. This trip protected around $800,000 in revenue for the company that would have been lost due to production stoppages.

Andrew's Resume - (Updated: November 2021)