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Pembroke, MA, US

Working with amazing people to streamline government operations and improve citizen services through delivery of transformative technologies.

New York, NY, US

• Helping financial institutions easily provide personalized credit and financial data to their customers with an engaging user experience.
• Rapidly became a primary internal technical resource (SME) supporting the Sales, Product, Design, and Engineering teams and documenting the existing client integration processes
• Collaborated with Product, Design, and Engineering to establish a set of standard off-the-shelf embedded web components and prototypes to improve the quality and frequency of client deliveries
• Authored a deployment team structure and client onboarding flow adopted and implemented by the CTO
• Promoted to Client Solution Architect with oversight over a self-sufficient diverse team of 7+ members
• Trained multiple project managers and teams of implementation engineers in various Agile practices

Lehi, Utah, US

• Empowering individuals to be financially strong by delivering innovative tools and technologies to financial institutions and their customers. Satisfying high-value clients' needs by driving the design, development and.
• Founding member of a new professional services team focused on meeting the needs of high-value clients
• Directed the on-going development and delivery of a $17B financial institution’s mobile app
• Led and managed the design and release of a new exploratory financial mobile app for a $540B client
• Orchestrated the development and testing efforts among disparate development and QA teams
• Championed the adoption of enterprise-level project and test management tools

• Planning, coordinating, and overseeing the execution of the development, testing, and deployment of multiple clients’ e-commerce websites and business management client software
• Increasing the frequency of deployments from a few per month to one or more per week, delivering new functionality and bug fixes to internal and external customers more quickly and predictably
• Championing the utilization of unit tests, automated testing, design reviews, code reviews and retrospectives within multiple development teams
• Initiating and overseeing the transition to Kanban and Jira
• Improving the communication among the development team, business stake holders and executives to convey progress, preemptively resolve conflicts, and achieve consensus

Hoboken, New Jersey, US

• Lead a diverse team of SEs, SETs & QA engineers in multiple locations in developing the next generation of cloud-based (AWS) storage solutions for the Cloud Contact Center (SaaS) market
• Drove a quality and evidence-of-releasability focused initiative to significantly increase automated testing and reliable deployment of a troubled legacy service
• Managed concurrent development and deployment plans for multiple development teams, ensuring timely and on-scope product delivery
• Collaborated and coordinated with development, product management, release management and other key stakeholders in executing the product vision, meeting program goals, planning and implementing software objectives.

Hoboken, New Jersey, US

Managed the software development life cycle process for three fantastic speech- and text-analytics development teams, providing accurate Natural Language Processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis capabilities to the Cloud Contact Center market, ensuring on-scope and timely product delivery. Collaborated and coordinated with Development, Product Management.

Lehi, UT, US

• Centrally involved in the creation and development of Ancestry’s DNA Services from initial release to having the industry’s largest consumer genomic database
• Personally responsible for the development and maintenance of numerous web services facilitating large-scale database submissions and continuously serving up data to DNA web applications
• Provided solutions for migrating between incremental versions of massive data sets
• Wrote unit and integration tests in a test-driven development environment
• Trained numerous individuals on the structure and behavior of the Ancestry DNA Results Processor

• Responsible for all development and QA in a start-up company’s sole product: an innovative, enterprise-level, common engineering environment supporting collaborative, concurrent, and cross-discipline engineering.
• Guided and coached a SCRUM development team in delivering promised functionality while maintaining flexibility to satisfy emerging business and customer needs
• Advocated and promoted Agile development methodologies (SCRUM) to meet demanding and changing product requirements in an intense, high-pressure environment
• Collaborated with clients, internal and external stakeholders and executives to determine the direction and vision for commercial, consumer-based software solutions
• Efficiently handled technical, personnel, finance and scheduling issues

• Designed, implemented and debugged new and existing functionality within a cutting-edge common engineering environment featuring Abstract Modeling and multi-discipline analysis capabilities
• Developed and enhanced adapters to leading third-party CAE analysis tools (MD.Nastran, MD.Adams, ANSYS, Abaqus, Thermal Desktop)
• Teamed up with clients to create and conduct multi-disciplinary Structural-Thermal-Optical-Performance (STOP) process analyses utilizing concurrent engineering sessions
• Provided sales, technical and customer support, including conducting demonstrations to customers
• Collaborated on writing and reviewing product documentation

Newport Beach, CA, US

• Integrated finite-element analysis capabilities into a leading motion simulation software product, utilizing the MSC.Nastran solver
• Developed and maintained CAD integrated applications (Mechanical Desktop, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Pro/ENGINEER, Wildfire)
• Created and maintained Windows & Linux/UNIX installers on the desktop and enterprise level
• Conducted product training and demonstrations at national trade shows (NDES, PDES)
• Provided sales, technical, customer and documentation support

Newport Beach, CA, US

• Integrated finite-element analysis capabilities into a leading motion simulation software product, utilizing the MSC.Nastran solver
• Developed and maintained CAD integrated applications (Mechanical Desktop, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Pro/ENGINEER, Wildfire)
• Created and maintained Windows & Linux/UNIX installers on the desktop and enterprise level
• Conducted product training and demonstrations at national trade shows (NDES, PDES)
• Provided sales, technical, customer and documentation support

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• (Temporary worker via Pace Staffing Services)
• Laid roof insulation & sanded exposed concrete walls for UCCU Center at UVU
• Laid & tied rebar for concrete pad at school in Springville

• (Temporary worker via Uniforce Temporaries)
• Helped repair a 10,000-gallon yeast tank
• Dug trenches

Master’S Degree, Automated Mesh Generation/Computer Aided Engineering (Civil And Environmental Engineering)

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering