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San Diego, Ca, Us

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Led a team of five engineers on a state benefits program responsible for building and maintaining the backend RESTful APIs and background jobs for determining claimant eligibility and processing payments. Key contributions included:Delegated feature leadership, coaching engineers on technical planning and engineering best practices, while retaining overall accountability for all team featuresDirectly led a critical feature that ensured benefit decisions were compliant with policy and legislation, architecting the overall solution, writing tech specs, spearheading development, and ensuring proper monitoring/alerting for a successful on-time launch

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Led multiple cloud infrastructure and API development projects for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Key projects included:Medicare Payment Systems Modernization - led the Operations and Site Reliability Engineering team to provide a cloud platform for other development teams in the program in order to enable the migration of vital systems from COBOL/mainframe to Java/Amazon Web Services (AWS).Quality Payment Program - led the Submissions API development team to build and maintain a highly performant API that handled over 300 requests per minute with 99.99% uptime. Collaborated with other development teams to architect new features, perform end-to-end integration testing, coordinate deployments, and debug system wide issues.

Sugar Land, Texas, Us

Led development teams across a portfolio of mobile app and website development projects, managing the software development lifecycle from concept and design through development and quality assurance testing. Key projects included:Interactive Product Showroom - led the technology team to create motion graphics content for a series of interactive multimedia displays, an audio/visual immersion room, and an augmented reality station, along with a central iOS application equipped with bluetooth way-finding to enable tour guides to control nearby exhibits within the two-story showroomFieldOffice Time and Attendance App - led the development team to build an iOS application equipped with biometric verification and geo-fencing to accurately track employees’ hours on remote construction sites, saving the client a projected $1M per year in fraudulent labor costs.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed a portfolio of 10-12 software development projects staffed by 65+ internal employees and 40+ contractors, across 5 countries, with an annual budget of $15MRestructured the capitalization of our software development costs and secured external funding from key project stakeholders, increasing our annual budget by $4MWrote a new stage-gate process, planned scrum training for developers and managers, and provided coaching for select project teams, to roll out scrum as Baker Hughes’ official enterprise software development methodology

Houston, Texas, Us

Planned, tracked, and managed the budgets of all projects within my portfolio, provided monthly status updates to senior leadership, and approved purchase requisitions.Planned the resource requirements for each project within my portfolio, and worked with the project lead to bridge any gaps remaining after the resource allocation processMaintained a record of all project documents and deliverables required for gate approval from senior leadership. Portfolios:Formation Evaluation Research (December 2013 - May 2014) - Medium to large sized projects, supported by over 40 full-time employees with a combined annual budget of over $10M.Ballistics (June 2013 - December 2013) - Small to medium sized projects, staffed by 18 full-time employees with a combined annual budget of over $6M.

College Park, Md, Us

Directly advised 6 of the 22 undergraduate student directors by holding weekly one-on-one meetings, providing regular guidance and support, and by managing their annual operational budgets.Provided training and development opportunities for the student directors throughout the year; specifically by planning and facilitating leadership and teamwork development sessions for the annual Fall and Spring Retreats.Assisted in the contract drafting and negotiation processes for performers being brought to campus.Interviewed and selected students for open director positions annually each Fall and as needed throughout the year.

Houston, Texas, Us

Collaborated with an external contractor to develop and launch the Program Management Office (PMO) Dashboard, which provides KPI data for budget performance, resource allocation, and schedule performance on both the project and portfolio level. Evaluated the reports generated by the PMO to identify opportunities to reduce the time spent by internal and external stakeholders gathering data needed to make key business decisions. The evaluation included surveying and meeting with stakeholders to gather and compile voice of the customer data and will be used in the groups ongoing CPI efforts.

Laurel, Maryland, Us

Planned and developed small scale front and back end software projects with a focus on data processing and analysis using C++, MatLab, and MySQLContributed to the development of large scale software projects with a similar focus using C++ and MySQLTested and developed optimization algorithms using MatLab, C++, and Java

Master Of Science (Ms), Engineering Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science And Mathematics