Product Owner of an Agile Software Integration and Test team.

Scrummaster of an Agile Software Integration and Test team.

In SVTAD (System Validation, Test & Analysis Directorate). Conducted system testing and validation, both informally as well as with the customer. Designed test plans, scenarios, scripts, procedures, and a test report.

Twice a week, described the Academic programs and “Wheaton Experience” to prospective students. This included typical talking points, but also adapting the tours to individual student needs and answering questions.Also selected twice by the Dean of Admissions to be one of five students from the student body to talk on a panel on Wheaton College Accepted Students Day. The panel included talking about academic and extra-curricular experiences, as well as internships and job offers to give prospective students an idea of a “well-rounded” education.

Analyzed authorship and content questions in Anglo-Saxon literature by developing software solutions (in Perl). Combining computer programs to count the number of words in different texts, and performing statistical analyses on these counts analyses on these counts, we developed a link to quantitatively analyze the Anglo-Saxon corpus.Co-authored two papers (Drout, M.D.C., Kahn, M, LeBlanc, M.D. and Nelson, C. ’11 (2011). Of Dendrogrammatology: Lexomic Methods for Analyzing the Relationships Among Old English Poems. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, July 2011, 301-336; Drout, M., Kahn, M., LeBlanc, M.D., Jones, A. ’11, Kathok, N. ’10, and Nelson, C. ’11. Lexomics for Anglo-Saxon Literature. Old English Newsletter), and was the only undergraduate student presenter at the 2009 International Society for Anglo-Saxonists Conference in Newfoundland, Canada.

Developed Verification Items for an Infrastructure Systems group, and conducted peer reviews for the Verification Item development. Installed Hardware components and integrated the system.

Learned the needs of the software development team, and used this understanding to work with two vendors in order to provide an analysis to the team for comparison purposes. Became a Six Sigma Specialist, completing a project to add software to the delivered product that would reduce operator error.