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Quincy, Massachusetts, United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

I led three teams during my tenure at Capital One. I coached the teams on scrum, agile, and SAFe practices, and I was the primary facilitator in guiding us through the PI planning and sprint execution process. I helped the teams overcome challenges such as continuously losing and gaining contractors, a high frequency of changing priorities (almost on a.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

I primarily fulfilled a general project management role at Abacus Insights, managing dependencies across 3 teams of software engineers and testers, totaling 25 people. We were not formally executing sprints, but we were essentially running 1 week iterations. We were required to upload software, data, and documentation deliverables directly to client.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

I played the Scrum Master role on a DevOps agile team in a SAFe environment. I coached and facilitated the team through the PI planning and sprint execution process, and I partnered with our Release Train Engineer to faciliate our ART's multi-day in-person PI planning events.Additionally, I led a project, partnering with other teams, to develop a "balanced.

Dover, New Hampshire

I stood up a scrum team tasked with adopting telephony software from an acquired company's tech stack. I helped the team put basic structures and processes in place, along with generating an initial prioritized backlog.

Cambridge, MA

While working at Pegasystems as an engineer, I quickly took an interest in improving the effectiveness of my teams. This led to me proposing to the VP of engineering numerous improvements to the department's agile approach, and I transitioned into a full-time agile role to implement those improvements.I was the company's first full-time Scrum Master and.

Cambridge, MA

I was part of a team that analyzed and improved the software performance (memory, disk, processor, and runtime) of Pegasystems’ flagship application. We primarily worked in Java, utilizing JMeter and YourKit to understand performance.

Durham, NH

I collaborated with biology researchers to create a data-pipeline to parse large DNA data sets. I was the sole software engineer on the project. The data-pipeline utilized Perl, C, and the Message Passing Interface (MPI) to parallelize pipeline steps.I was listed as an author on a published article in a genomics-focused journal (see the "Publications".

Lexington, MA

I designed and implemented a new abstraction layer in a test framework for utilizing open source test engines to evaluate the performance of large scale web-based systems.

I gained experience reading and debugging others' code, along with teaching the basics of well-designed implementations.

I assisted in the development of a UPnP client/server application written in C# that monitored power consumption on remote servers.

I managed money transactions, vault balances, and strict confidentiality policies, while practicing communication skills during one on one customer interactions.

M.S., Computer Science

Activities and Societies: UNH men's rugby, Bioinformatic research and thesis focus

Carpentry

B.S., Computer Science

Activities and Societies: UNH men's rugby