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Lewisburg, Pa, Us

Lewisburg, Pa, Us

Acton, Massachusetts, Us

Detroit, Michigan, Us

● Resolved two time-sensitive and high-priority defects within 1 week, facilitating the team’s launch of Alexa on 13vehicle programs and over 130,000 vehicles.● Contributed to the development and maintenance of a high-traffic application utilized by over 500,000 active users,ensuring reliable performance and user satisfaction.● Co-developed GM’s Onboarding and Account Dashboard Apps from scratch using Kotlin, delivering anddemonstrating functionality to senior leadership and stakeholders.● Spearheaded an initiative to develop and implement new reusable UI components, decreasing complexity and enablingmore robust testing across multiple applications.● Designed and implemented versatile button components with customizable styles, supporting seamless management ofthree distinct button designs.● Led a comprehensive redesign of GM Alexa by integrating theming support into GM UI Libraries and replacing allListViews with RecyclerViews, enhancing 66% of screens on GM Alexa and affecting over 100 screens across 10vehicle programs.● Refined UI for GM Terms and Conditions covering over 50,000 vehicles.● Increased code coverage on 90% of GM Brands by building Espresso UI Automation tests, reducing the occurrence ofUI defects.● Re-engineered GM Virtual Assistant Controller features to adhere to new Android SDK specifications for backgroundservices and activities, achieving enhanced stability and user experience.● Collaborated with the Amazon Alexa SDK team to identify, report, and resolve defects in the Amazon SDK.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

● Co-developed GM’s Onboarding and Account Dashboard Apps from scratch using Kotlin, delivering a demonstration to senior leadership and stakeholders● Lead initiative for new reusable UI components, decreasing complexity, and enabling more robust testing across multiple applications● Fixed two time-sensitive and high priority defects within 1 week, unblocking the launch of Alexa on multiple vehicle programs● Worked cross-functionally with stakeholders, UI teams, and project managers to refine and deliver requirements for GM Alexa, GM Onboarding, and GM Account Dashboard● Followed best practices, writing unit, integration and automated UI tests alongside new features● Refactored all setting pages in GM Support Library to use Android RecyclerViews due to lack of theming support with Android ListView for GM’s UI, affecting 5+ screens across 10 different vehicle models

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Within Agile Framework, worked as software integration engineer for the Google Assistant Services Team. Contributed to weekly software builds/releases. Worked on regression and score-card testing for GAS applications on GM hardware. Troubleshot and calibrated GM hardware.Analyzed and tested defects from GAS, determined whether bugs were resulting from GM software/hardware or Google software. Interfaced with Google teams to resolve google related bugs. Helped implement new features on GM Hardware.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Hybrid Optimization Tool, worked on the logic development for a MATLAB based engineering software tool to calculate fuel economy. TCC optimization, calibrated torque limits and shift map for second gear fireing fraction based on vehicle response. Additionally, tested the cFTP City cycles to determine fuel economy savings, using the TCC calibrations.