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San Antonio, Tx, Us

Led the team of engineers supporting H-E-B's Wellness Primary Care and Nutrition Services operations from its initial formation in 2023. Architected solutions as technical point of contact for cross-functional integrations, including with health record providers and online payment systems. Managed delegation of technical work to engineers while also leading code delivery for the team's most challenging applications and bootstrapping baseline operations for other engineers to build from.Accomplishments as of Q2 2024 include:- developed an online payment processor for patient invoicing- delivered software to support business's transition between health record providers- bootstrapped a new workspace with several backend microservices and a frontend UI- normalized agile and scrum practices without a dedicated scrum master- trained four engineers who were new to the tech stack at the team's inception in 2023- built technical norms in line with industry best practices, improving existing company practices for authentication and authorization, CI/CD, and others Developed applications handling sensitive HIPAA data and integrated PCI-sensitive components.

Richmond, Virginia, Us

Designed and developed software as a consultant for various applications, using various stacks. Examples include:- optimization of a large-scale recommender system to connect homebuyers and sellers to agents- workflow automation for tasks processed through client's call center- interfaces with Twilio services for automation of phone and messaging tasks- a framework for rigorous randomized testing of API endpoints

(Freelance, part-time in addition to full time work) Managed the Giddens sports analysis algorithm from invention through publication. Created a novel analysis approach for predicting outcomes of sporting events and optimized it using a Nelder-Mead method. Developed software to automate data collection, processing, and publication. Designed a website to host results.

Dripping Springs, Tx, Us

Headed software initiatives for interdisciplinary research projects as PEC's lead software engineer. Designed solution architecture and led development efforts. Projects included an evolutionary symbolic regression solver, an automation framework for structural finite element analysis, and various automation systems for modeling and simulation research.

Alexandria, Va, Us

Acted as program manager for Sysflo fluid dynamics software. * Led modernization effort including redesign and translation of archaic codebase. * Improved architecture and performance for extensibility to new project scopes. * Applied updated code to projects of unprecedented scale and complexity, including a simulator of a nuclear reactor's primary cooling loop.* Implemented modern practices for source control and deployment. * Trained and managed contributing engineers.As a consulting engineer, managed and supported a wide variety of interdisciplinary engineering projects in a fast-paced consulting environment. Technical specialization included software development and fluid simulation.Contributed to all phases of the project life cycle, including business development, proposals, project management, and technical execution. Managed own workload, typically with several simultaneous active projects.

M.S., Analytics

B.S., Chemical Engineering