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Denver, CO, US

Lakewood, Colorado, US

• Managed up to 15 direct reports, providing leadership, performance evaluations, and career development to cultivate a high-performing team.
• Oversaw recruitment for software development roles, resulting in numerous hires being promoted to leadership positions, demonstrating strong acumen in talent acquisition.
• Led the annual Software Internship Program, hiring and mentoring up to four interns each summer, emphasizing real-world projects and professional growth.
• Kicked off and oversaw the development of a next generation microservice platform, significantly enhancing operational efficiency and service delivery across all business segments.
• Implemented a new hiring process that improved candidate screening and interview techniques, increasing the likelihood of high-performing hires.
• Initiated and directed an upskilling program that enhanced technical skills and career advancement opportunities across the team.

Lakewood, Colorado, US

• Technical Project Lead responsible for leading two full stack remote software development teams consisting of 20+ development and test engineers to successfully develop and deliver complex software applications on time.
• Software Systems Engineer responsible for eliciting user needs from stakeholders, architecting system and software requirements, defining system architecture and interfaces, and detailing system behavior and use cases
• Agile Product Owner responsible for product vision, creating and managing the backlog, prioritizing needs based on customer and stakeholders input, and providing project status updates to executive and senior.
• Responsible for interviewing candidates, on-boarding, mentoring, supervising, setting goals, and providing performance reviews for new engineers
• Devised and executed risk management strategies, lead risk management activities to reduce risk in the project including, guided a team of risk engineers to remediate a design FMEA for a Class II medical device to.
• Customer visits to China and Vietnam to successfully deploy a medical software system for routine use trials; Team visits to Belgium and India to meet development teams, kickoff projects, and develop the backlog

Boston, MA, US

• Project lead responsible for leading two SCRUM teams (four developers and one test engineer each team) to rewrite a 20+ year old legacy configuration software system, used to detect adverse vibration, and to shutdown.
• Team lead of a SCRUM team consisting of four developers and one test engineer, part of a global unit of 18 Scrum teams, developing the leading condition-monitoring software, System1, for protecting large.
• Developed high quality production software, wrote unit/component/system/integration/smoke tests, conducted code reviews, checked in software through a system of gated and non-gated continuous integration builds.
• Managed multiple project backlogs of user stories and defects during execution and presented the business with time estimation for the various features and releases.

Boston, MA, US

• Wrote the application software used to configure and collect historical data records of a system that continuously monitors industrial motors, the first of its kind ever in the industry. This project involved working.
• Sent to London, UK to troubleshoot a customer’s issue with one GE's software systems, resulting in successful problem resolution saving the customer an estimated $75,000 per day.
• Member of an international team of ten engineers sustaining multiple condition monitoring and protection software applications. Responsibilities included bug fixes, software enhancements/modifications, and.

Boston, MA, US

Worked on a team, along with two other software engineering interns, to create a proof of concept software mobile application that enabled plant managers to view the statuses of their machinery in real time from their mobile device. This proof of concept precipitated the launch of a new software project and eventual release to customers.

London, GB

Worked for the global leader in the production of computerized gaming machines (slot machines) developing software. Helped with computer defects in the Multiplayer-Series software, added new functionality to existing software, helped with set-up of systems for testing, kept a test bed of multiple systems connected to multiple networks up and running.

Reno, NV, US

Designed and built an informational website, in coordination with Dr. Sergiu Dascalu of the University of Nevada, Reno, for educational resources on climate change studies. Implemented the website by utilizing various web technologies such as CSS, HTML, J-Query to present multiple resources on climate change which catered to various age groups and.

Reno, NV, US

Supported users with various computer problems such as network issues, virus/spyware infections/protection, password and account creation and resets, general computer issues, triaged and documented issues, directed calls to the appropriate locations, and gave directions around school campus.

Albuquerque, NM, US

Prepared for seismic tests, plotted data from video logs and previously recorded seismic data, assisted in ground surveying using survey equipment and GPS, drove government vehicles, escorted foreign nationals at Yucca Mountain and the Nevada Test Site, helped prepare scientific notebooks for licensing at Yucca Mountain.

Master’S Degree, Systems Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science