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Newton, Massachusetts, US

• Lead all aspects of engineering - overseeing the strategy, contract negotiations, vendor selection, software, hardware and manufacturing. Manage 8 Engineers and 2 Product/Project Managers.
• Redesigned the hardware to address reliability hardware issues, regulatory gaps and scalability resulting in a significant increase in productivity – cutting manufacturing time by 90% - making the company able to.
• Led the selection and procurement of software and hardware systems - establishing a unified development and deployment process to build consistent and reliable software services along multiple projects to increase.
• Participated in hiring a diverse team of engineers and have successfully applied for supplemental funding through NIH for supporting and hiring women and minorities.

Newton, Massachusetts, US

• Led the development of the clinical trial and ePro (electronic patient reported outcomes) platform - includes defining the features and overseeing its development, integration and managing solutions to ensure on-time.
• Led the development of a clinical trial platform for studying the effectiveness of new drugs within pharmaceutical companies. Resulted in over $600K in contracts and awards.
• Developed a re-usable Java library to ease the integration of sensors with PCs and Android devices creating greater development efficiencies, reduction of errors, improved quality and reliability promotion significant.
• Managed the development of iOS and Android application for parents to manage childcare.
• Successfully advocated for standardizing development environments with Vagrant that added structure and formalized the development process. In addition, increased software productivity, reliability and build errors.
• Designed and developed a reusable architecture for clinical trial products to reduce development time by >50%.

Newton, Massachusetts, US

• Built the company’s clinical trial platform that has lead to core products and services that are now offered. Led to millions in revenue and utilized in numerous clinical trials funded both by the NIH and.
• Led the development of a $400K DOD project, collaborating with an intern, delivering the project in under 3 months.
• Principal Android developer supporting two NIH funded studies on fall detection and Stroke Rehabilitation.
• Technical and product design lead on CliQ, a habit tracking product, providing feature requirements, planning, demos and media presentations.
• Led and managed the re-design of sensor hardware that is used across various BioSensics products, thus reduced production costs by 66%.
• The architect of an efficient and re-usable software library to interface with various hardware products reduced development time by 20%.

• Provide leadership, management and vision to effectively grow and develop products and services that reflect opportunities and empowerment within the website creation and hosting community. Continually evaluate the.
• Plan, produce and launch multiple web development plugins for RapidWeaver to simplify website creation and fulfill market demand.
• Established competitive advantage with the design and building of a PHP framework to aggregate various photo services including Flickr, Picasa and Dribbble.
• Re-launched and marketed Chillidog Hosting in 2011 as the premier web hosting service for the RapidWeaver community.
• Planned and launched multiple WHM/cPanel plugins for Rackspace and Linode DNS to eliminate the monthly cost, maintenance, redundancy, scalability and security concerns required to operate a DNS server cluster.

• Managed the front and backend development of the uCompareHealthcare website to continuously identify potential areas to increase site performance, usability, traffic and revenue. Regularly contributed to the full.
• Led the design, development and adoption of a common backend framework to reduce development time.
• Designed and developed a unit testing suite to increase application stability.
• Developed and designed a PHP networking and cache layer to increase application performance by 25-35%.
• Integrated analytics event tracking on the site to analyze site performance and increased conversions.
• Designed, developed and integrated an A/B testing framework to rapidly iterate application design and increase conversions.

Boston, MA, US

• Led the continued improvement of the BuySellAds website and Mac/iOS Frameworks. Reported to the CEO and collaborated with Sales Managers and Support team. Identified potential areas for automation and new markets and.
• Designed, developed, integrated and launched the ability to sell sponsored tweets within the BuySellAds PHP framework which grew to >$1000/day in new revenue in less than 3 months.
• Participated in the rapid growth and improvement of BuySellAds.com by adding new features, refining the user experience, managing support and building as well as supporting new partnerships.
• Liaison between sales and support team to identify and correct various application issues.

Arlington, VA, US

• Designed, developed and tested the integration of software for the peripherals control unit of the Patriot Missile System.
• Designed and developed various C++ models to interact and control various system peripherals.
• Integrated, verified and debugged C++ software applications using the GDB tool.
• Participated in design reviews to define features and ensure the quality of the peripherals platform.
• Created a C++ test utility suite that reduced development time and saved money by providing faster development, testing and integration.
• Worked extensively as part of a team to focus, define and develop the software architecture for a key component of the Patriot Missile Defense System.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

• Worked on the design, development and operation of a test apparatus for high temperature hydrocarbon gas sensors.
• Designed and analyzed GaN and SiC analog circuits for high temperature sensor applications.
• Studied the sensitivity and selectivity of carbon nano-tubes as sensors for various hydrocarbon based gases.
• Designed a test system in CAD for the characterization of High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) sensors for natural gas detection.
• Designed and programmed Matlab software to control, test and analyze HEMT sensors for natural gas detection.
• Studied RF sputtered tin oxide films for use in gas sensing applications.

Master Of Science (Ms), Applied Physics | Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical And Computer Engineering