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Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Leading a team of software engineers in enhancing and maintaining Vanguard’s portfolio construction methodology engine, which serves our advice offer consumers and their end clients.

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Acted as the primary consultant for Vanguard’s private equity project, working with eight teams across four advice product lines to decompose and estimate desired business capabilitiesPlanned Vanguard’s Active in Advice project offer alongside three methodology research & implementation teams and two internal advice consumer business linesSpearheaded the Enterprise Advice Innovation Team’s efforts to highlight crew achievements by interviewing outstanding team members and authoring blog posts of their stories on the internal Vanguard SharePoint

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Managed a team of eight developers working on the Microsoft Dynamics implementation supporting VIA’s Personal Investor project, a full rewrite of a 20-year-old application. Implemented a system to better define the team's sprint goals, improving velocity by 50% over the course of 6 sprints.Advocated for and encouraged the maturity of VIA’s agile practices by working closely with other project managers, product owners, and product test engineers to evaluate and refine existing processes

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Led a team of ten in developing, enhancing, and maintaining Vanguard’s Financial Projections API, a pivotal piece of its advice offer, as it grew its client base from 0 to over 250,000 Personal Advisor Services clientsImplemented a release train delivery process, setting challenging sprint goals to release working software and enhancements every three weeksCoached six software engineers by giving critical feedback, reinforcing strengths, and providing opportunities to expand their professional networks, ultimately resulting in three of them receiving promotions within eighteen monthsRegarded as a subject matter expert on all things related to the methodology and implementation of the financial projections modelerSelected by senior leaders to lead and cultivate the Enterprise Advice Incubator program, which consisted of three cross-divisional teams working offline for two weeks to prototype solutions to crucial advice-related challenges

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

Designed and implemented a financial projections model for Vanguard’s trust and entity clients, using a Monte Carlo-esque calculation engine to project asset growth as well as income and distributions, that performs its 10,000 simulations in under one second, with over 300,000 calls per day Assisted the re-balance methodology implementation team with incorporating a complex piece of linear optimization to ensure the engine did not violate wash sale rulesReduced production defects within Vanguard’s most used retail website pages from over 2,000 to below 500 during first two years within the organization’s support center

Cupertino, California, Us

I was tasked with providing optimal product solutions to meet my customers technological needs.

Bethlehem, Pa, Us

In charge of designing and implementing a web server to augment onto jAmaseis, educational seismology software in development, in order to improve scalability of the project.Responsible for implementing web services which will allow jAmaseis software and administrators to access and manipulate a MySQL Server.

Bethlehem, Pa, Us

Helped develop Alpha version of jAmaseis, a piece of software designed to enhance seismology education.The purpose of jAmaseis is to allow easy access to streaming seimic data from anywhere in the world.

Bethlehem, Pa, Us

I worked with another student to develop computer programs to simulate biological models.The biological models simulated were Metapopulation Dynamics, Foraging, and Succession.

South Burlington, Vt, Us