AI Automation Engineer

Early-career creator building practical skills

I am beginning my professional journey, learning tools and making small projects to gain experience and grow my portfolio.

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Work samples

A collection of learning projects and practice work that show skills I'm developing and the tools I'm exploring as I prepare for paid roles.

  • Invoice Reporting Automation with UiPath
    Invoice Reporting Automation with UiPath

    Built an end-to-end RPA workflow that extracted invoice number, supplier, due date, and total amount from invoices in Google Drive; filtered invoices by due date; and wrote validated records to Google Sheets. Implemented a 0.70 confidence threshold to route low-confidence extractions for review and generated concise AI purchase descriptions; achieved 98%+ extraction accuracy in testing with approximately 10-second processing per invoice.

    UiPath Web StudioDocument UnderstandingGenAIGoogle DriveGoogle Sheets
  • Automated Feedback Analysis Workflow
    Automated Feedback Analysis Workflow

    Built a Make workflow that captured feedback from Google Forms, used Gemini AI to classify sentiment and generate structured JSON summaries, and stored results in Google Sheets. Configured automated negative-feedback alerts with AI-generated summaries and review links; tested JSON parsing and sentiment-classification edge cases to improve workflow reliability.

    MakeGemini AIGoogle FormsGoogle SheetsEmail Automation

About me

I am beginning my professional journey, learning tools and making small projects to gain experience and grow my portfolio.

I'm Lesley Colon. I am at the start of my career and have limited formal work experience. I'm exploring opportunities to build practical skills and real projects as I begin professional work.

Experience

Building Supply Specialist

Grizzlys Building Supply · 02/2026 - Present

Insurance Sales Account Manager

Complete Senior Benefits · 11/2023 – 01/2026

Account Executive

Dun & Bradstreet · 09/2019 – 05/2023

PRO Sales Associate

Home Depot · 02/2016 – 12/2019

Education

TripleTen

AI Automation Certificate · Class of 2026

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

B.A., International Global Studies, Biology Concentration · Class of 2026

Skills

Willingness to learnProject practicePortfolio development
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Invoice Reporting Automation with UiPath

Built an end-to-end RPA workflow that extracted invoice number, supplier, due date, and total amount from invoices in Google Drive; filtered invoices by due date; and wrote validated records to Google Sheets. Implemented a 0.70 confidence threshold to route low-confidence extractions for review and generated concise AI purchase descriptions; achieved 98%+ extraction accuracy in testing with approximately 10-second processing per invoice.

UiPath Web StudioDocument UnderstandingGenAIGoogle DriveGoogle Sheets
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Automated Feedback Analysis Workflow

Built a Make workflow that captured feedback from Google Forms, used Gemini AI to classify sentiment and generate structured JSON summaries, and stored results in Google Sheets. Configured automated negative-feedback alerts with AI-generated summaries and review links; tested JSON parsing and sentiment-classification edge cases to improve workflow reliability.

MakeGemini AIGoogle FormsGoogle SheetsEmail Automation
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Weather-Based Sales and Staffing Automation

Built a scheduled 7:00 AM Zapier workflow that retrieved weather data through the OpenWeather API and used Gemini AI to generate daily product, staffing, and promotion recommendations. Automated a manager-ready email and configured severe-weather alerts for temperatures above 91°F or weather descriptions containing rain or storms.

ZapierOpenWeather APIGemini AIGmailWebhooks
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AI-Powered Customer Support Workflow Design

Analyzed a manual multi-channel support process and identified intake, ticket-assignment, and escalation bottlenecks affecting response speed and customer experience. Designed a future-state AI support workflow incorporating automated intake, classification, routing, chatbot self-service, agent assistance, notifications, feedback analysis, human escalation, and privacy considerations.

Process AnalysisAI Workflow DesignChatbotsAgent CopilotsGovernance
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