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Overland Park, Kansas, United States

Part of the pioneer engineering team that launched Firstly (firstly.com), an evergreen budgeting app product. Codified key parts of the Firstly brand’s design system and component library using React/Storybook, integrated 3rd party fintech APIs with the application’s Node.js/AWS/MongoDB backend stack, and built the team’s internal customer service portal, all using TypescriptContributed to critical credit analysis infrastructure support by automating key event-driven consumer processes using C# and Mass Transit, reflecting business logic changes in Entity Framework and SQL models, monitoring and troubleshooting using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, publishing to shared internal NuGet and NPM packages, and facilitating the team’s agile sprint retrospectivesDesigned and implemented an internal end-to-end testing framework using Postman, wrote continuous integration and deployment workflows in Github Actions, and built new ETL processes for simple cleaning and piping of anonymous credit analysis data into our Azure data lake

Denver, Colorado, United States

Developed a full-stack patient management software on AWS for in-office, non-insured dental-plans. Includes patient activity tracking, office and admin views, dental plan creation/selection/customization, a fully integrated billing system, office/admin reporting dashboards, HIPAA compliance, etc. (https://www.qdpdentist.com)Technology Stack: AWS (Appsync & DynamoDB, Cognito, Lambda, S3, Cloudfront & Route53, Kinesis Firehose), USIO (payments API), Node.js, React, TailwindCSS

Denver, Colorado, United States

Part of a two person team that defined the flagship business metrics Mezu would use to track business health and steer towards product-market fit. Wrote ETL scripts and used SQL and python scripts to craft these metrics in Amazon Redshift and developed business intelligence dashboards and routine reporting mechanisms in Amazon Quicksight for the executive team and other key stakeholdersDesigned tests focused on optimizing product features and customer communication tactics and built reports to track behavioral changesConducted ad-hoc analysis on product usage and attribution data. Primary themes included building tables and charts for investor fundraising decks, investigating spikes/dips in acquisition or product engagement and combining product data with acquisition data from Facebook Ads to help the marketing team evaluate prospective ad sets (peak acquisition resulted in a top 10 appearance in the Finance section of the Apple App Store)

Denver, Colorado

Used simple machine learning algorithms and other text analytics tactics to automate the classification of topics and sentiment in customer survey reviews and customer service agent help chatsHelped define new behavioral metrics from customer service call event data and used these to identify, prioritize, pilot, and track changes to the customer service agent knowledge management system

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Analyzed high-frequency U.S. equity market data using python and SQL to formulate potential improvements to a core machine learning trading algorithms using a mix of feature engineering and hyperparameter tuning tactics

Liberty, Missouri

Littleton, Colorado

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance, (Cum Laude)

Activities and Societies: Graduate Teaching Assistant - Principles of Real Estate

Bachelor’S Degree, Industrial And Manufacturing Systems Engineering, (Cum Laude)

Activities and Societies: Institute of Industrial Engineers (President, Vice President and Service Coordinator), Supportive Tigers Riding.