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Greater Boston Area

• Developed and maintained framework built on Django to provide functionality commonly used in client projects, reducing the time required to create Content Management Systems.• Designed and implemented web APIs allowing for dynamic content within interactive museum exhibits such as customizable text/images/videos, visitor profiles and analytics, user submission and retrieval of photos, etc.• Provided technical direction on projects to ensure their feasibility and success.• Managed AWS infrastructure to support highly available web applications.• Migrated existing AWS infrastructure to declarative Terraform code. This created documentation for all infrastructure components, eliminates the risk of mistakes made through manual configuration, allows for easily modifying a component while understanding the potential side effects of those changes, and for reverting changes if needed.• Migrated EC2 server configuration process from difficult to maintain custom Python scripts to an Ansible Playbook. This created documentation for server configuration, and eliminates the risk of mistakes made through manual configuration.

Greater Boston Area

• Configured and maintained computer hardware used in interactive museum installations.• Automated Trivium's initial interactive computer configuration process through PowerShell scripting, resulting in a time savings of 50% per computer.• Developed and deployed custom internal render server software in Python for Adobe Premiere projects. The server utilized Flask, PostgreSQL, FFmpeg, and Samba. This increased the productivity of Trivium’s video editors by allowing them to continue working on other projects while videos were rendered on the server.• Installed and managed internal network and equipment including a VMware ESXi server, a Synology NAS, and a Ubiquiti router.• Tested in-development software, reducing the prevalence of bugs and usability issues found in production.

Greater Boston Area

Sold tickets for school and third-party events to students and staffAssisted visitors by providing information on events, locations on campus, and lost itemsKept track of and distribute supplies to students in Wentworth's pool hall

Assembled products for customers and displayUnloaded shipments of productsReturned carts to their receptacles from the parking lot and aisles

Silk screened T-shirts orders for Marshfield High School and other groups in the communityWorked with clients to help translate their ideas into designsCreated printed class and school event materials

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

GPA: 3.71

High School