Blaise W. Brennan Email & Phone Number

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

• Deliver digital skills education to a variety of audiences, including adults, youth, people with disabilities, English language learners, and others in community-based settings.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with external agencies, non-profit, and for-profit institutions in Baltimore City.
• Leverage existing resources and evidence-based curricula to develop appropriate and effective lesson plans & unit plans.

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

• Expanded access to public benefits by providing eligibility screening and application assistance for SNAP, TCA, Renter’s Tax Credit, and other programs
• Promoted CASH’s direct services and organizational partnerships at community outreach events in Baltimore City and Baltimore County
• Collaborated with staff and partners at the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development (MOED) Northwest Career Center at Mondawmin Mall to meet the needs of our customers
• Counseled Baltimore County residents facing financial hardships, especially evictions and utility turnoffs, and providing them with high-quality referrals to services in their community
• Provided benefits counseling to participants in a human-participant research study providing Guaranteed Income cash assistance, helping participants understand the impact of this assistance upon their benefits.

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

• ACRE-certified Employment Consultant / Direct Support Professional (DSP) for Project SEARCH - Montgomery County Government
• Maintain a caseload of 12-15 individuals, including both "Interns" (members of current cohort of program participants) and "Post Hires" (graduates of past Project SEARCH cohorts), supporting each person in setting and.
• Provide both in-person and virtual supports to workers with ID/DD across Montgomery County, MD
• Plan and lead bi-weekly "Job Club" for Post Hires to develop hard and soft skills for employment, social skills, emotional intelligence and emotional regulation; and discuss many topics ranging from employment to.
• Completed all required training on time or ahead of schedule, including: CPR/First Aid; 30-day & 90-day required training modules; PPE training & refreshers; bloodborne pathogens and universal precautions training &.
• Participate in annual Person Centered Planning meetings with each individual supported

Arlington, Virginia

• Collaborated with front-end engineers, full-stack engineers, quality assurance engineers, product managers, and UX specialists to develop web applications using Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Developed intuitive and functional user-interfaces and reusable components using ReactJS, Redux, React Context, and LESS
• Developed unit tests for front-end features using Selenium, Mocha and Cypress
• Actively collaborated with interdisciplinary team to develop and implement design system and its components
• Advocated for users with disabilities by promoting best practices for accessibility, performing accessibility audits for existing products, and introducing accessibility reviews for new front-end features
• Created and led the Arlington chapter of ADAPTability, a Mastercard business resource group (BRG) dedicated to disability awareness and inclusion

College Park, Maryland

• Managed approximately 220 hours-per-week of broadcasts by student, alumni, faculty and staff DJs
• Recruited and trained approximately 50 new DJs each term
• Ensured FCC compliance of all programming
• Created novel "continuing training" opportunities for current DJs
• Improved the technical capabilities of the radio station, working with the Chief Engineer and IT Director to automate the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and other systems

Annapolis Junction, MD

• Technical duties and cross-role collaboration related to software development, especially for developing intuitive front-end user interfaces
• Developed web application features using AngularJS, Typescript, SASS, Bootstrap, Node and MongoDB
• As part of a project using Wordpress, I leveraged PHP, JQuery and CSS while navigating and maintaining a legacy codebase
• Investigated and trialed Apache Zeppelin for our team's use-case of data characterization and quality assurance, and presented my findings to colleagues

Annapolis, MD

• Performed title processing, quality control, and post-closing disbursement for home purchases and refinances
• Completed creative side-projects, including logo design in Inkscape and presentation editing with PowerPoint

• Legal drafting, office administration, customer service, filing and inventory management
• Coordinated a cloud-based data migration and implemented changes to company devices to accommodate the new system

Jeremy S. Coles Sports Center, NYU

Customer service, inventory management and equipment accountability.

Active duty status, responsible for my own professional and academic development as well as the training of my subordinates.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, 3.93 Gpa

• Graduated cum laude from the College of Computer, Mathematical & Natural Sciences • Minor in History, including specific coursework in.

Computer Science, 4.0 Gpa

Computer Science, 3.54 Gpa, Top 15% In The Class Of 2016