About
I am a Stack Half-Full, Entrepreneurial, Data Scient-ish, User-Driven Kind of Engineer
Over the course of my career I've had the privilege to have my hands in nearly every aspect
of the product lifecycle. Through these experiences, I've come to the believe that a deep
understanding of your users combined with a tight and interative feedback loop is key to
creating lasting and impactful products.
What first attracted me to Software Engineering was that it gave me the ability to solve
some of my own problems, namely, my High-School Chemistry homework. Since then I've been on
a constant mission to apply those skills towards solving challenging problems and providing
real value to real people.
Experience
The innovation arm of Liberty Mutual with a mission to create disruptive products in the insurance and insurance-adjacent spaces. I currently work as part of the Rapid Prototyping team to quickly launch and iterate on new products.
Responsibilities
- Lead backend development team on flagship home maintenance application
- Took multiple product prototypes from concept through build to user feedback to eventual go/no-go
- Lead team in developing a suite of 18 microservices for quoting, underwriting, and creating policies for multiple insurance products - coordinating with other system leads
Accomplishments
- Designed an integral-based algorithm for calculating relative 'noisiness' of a given location, improving speed of previous geometry-based algorithm by 40x and securing a patent for the company
- Hired top-technical talent - growing the engineering team from 4 to 18 employees within 2 years
Multinational aerospace company responsible for the supply of armaments and electronic warfare capabilities to the US Department of Defense. During my time at BAE, I worked as part of the Integration and Information Analytics (I2A) directorate which was focused on the fielding of core tracking, fusion, and mission control technologies in real-world applications.
Responsibilities
- Developed physical prototype for distributed interconnected footsoldier network
- System engineering and integration for large project in coordination with multiple partner companies
- Responsible for security hardening of mission-critical software and software environment
Accomplishments
- Meticulously automated entire 300-page manual testing plan of 12 year-old legacy product: reducing testing cycle from 2 weeks to 2 days while retaining auditing requirements
Industrial process control systems company with a hand in both hardware and software development, primarily focused on oil and gas pipeline efficiency. During my time at Emerson, I worked as part of the Remote Automation Solutions department which was responsible for the development of the OpenEnterprise SCADA system for use in the remote monitoring and control of oil and gas pipeline facilities.
Accomplishments
- Designed and built hardware device simulators for use in testing distributed network control software
- Created a "wireshark-like" suite of message inspection and analysis tools to support field technicians during on-site troubleshooting
- Aided in design of next-generation wire protocol for hardware device coordination
Formerly a division of General Electric, Gexpro is an electrical supplies retailer primarily focused on the construction and industrial markets. During my time at Rexel, I worked in the Gexpro corporate headquarters as part of the IT department’s leadership program.
Accomplishments
- Coordinated with outside vendor and multiple business units to execute company-wide LMS rollout
- Set and continuously tracked key performance metrics for the first 6 months following launch
- Created Excel-based dashboard to automate analyses in an accessible way for HR team stakeholders
The IT department for the University of Connecticuts School of Fine Arts responsible for supporting faculty and staff for all 11 departments within the school. During my time at the IT department I worked between part- and full-time as my class schedule allowed, eventually taking on the role of the final director of the department in my senior year and leading its dissolution and merger into the Core UConn IT Department.
Responsibilities
- Managed small team of lower-tier specialists to service IT needs of School of Fine Arts faculty and staff
- Managed IT infrastructure for the School of Fine Arts including faculty accounts and permissions, equipment procurement and setup, budget planning, and faculty support
Accomplishments
- Built low-budget digital signage solution using a set of Raspberry Pis as a last-minute replacement in response to a vendor failure. Solution remained in use for over 3 years.
- Lead team of 5 student developers and designers in redesign effort of all 11 Fine Art school websites
- Took on role of Acting Director of the department and lead migration effort to hand off all infrastructure, staff, and processes to UConn Central IT department
Skills
python
node.js
C/C++
Java
SQL
Django
Nest.js
bash
react.js
redux
jekyll
HTML5
CSS
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
Docker
gRPC
GraphQL
AWS
git
emacs
Awards + Recognition
Provisional patent awarded for the design of an algorithm for calculating the relative “noisiness” of a given location based on the proximity of roads and other sources of noise. The development of this algorithm resulted in a 40x improvement in the “Noise Score” calculation as part of Solaria Labs’ Total Home Score program.
Provisional patent awarded for the design of an algorithm for compressing a graph which contains many linear segments: something that is common to road networks. The development of this algorithm resulting in an average of a 85% reduction in graph size road networks and routing time in Solaria Labs’ Safe-Routing program.
1st place in the UConn School of Engineering’s Senior Design Fair: Computer Science and Engineering category. Awarded for the development of ParkShark: an application for tracking capacity of UConn’s on-campus parking lot based on recorded vehicle entries and exits based on the use of a magnetometer.