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New Haven, Ct, Us

Wallingford, Connecticut, United States

● Acted as sole designer and builder of webapp tool, built with C#, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework and SQL Server, used to analyze, track, measure and categorize product defects. Resulted in hundreds of man hours saved per year and has become essential tool and data repository for Product Support, Process Improvement, and Data Analysis teams. Helped identify patterns and root causes, leading to several impactful product quality improvements.● Enhanced the business-critical Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and desktop applications using C# and .NET to meet evolving requirements. Performance improvements resulting in several man hours saved per day for users. Key updates to auto-generated pdf reports reaching hundreds of scientists globally.● Designed, built, and integrated manufacturing automation barcode printer software using NI LabVIEW and hardware control system, resulting in significant savings of over 1000 manual labor hours annually vs. previous manual printing methods.● Wrote complex SQL queries and published self-service direct-query Power BI reports for management and operations teams, streamlining reporting processes and saving software team several hours a month of manual report generation.

West Haven, Connecticut, United States

Cheshire, Connecticut, United States

● Developed test stand applications, using Java an JavaFX, for programming and testing hardware components during manufacture/assembly. Allowed opportunity to save hundreds of man hours per year.● Created proof of concept NoSQL and distributed PostgreSQL database alternatives, demonstrating tools to save months of development time vs. existing plans.● Configured, installed, maintained web, mail, database servers running Fedora Linux to assist with scaling efforts. Allowed room for thousands of additional customer devices to be added.● Wrote detailed standard operating procedures for Linux server setup and configuration, ensuring consistency in deployment processes. Allowed engineers to create multiple full-rack clones of server

Cheshire, Connecticut, United States

● Collaborated with Manufacturing Engineers to develop a website using Java, HTML, JQuery, Boostrap Framework and PostgreSQL, automating the production test process, resulting in efficiency savings of 500+ human labor hours per year.● Accelerated algorithm and system scale testing by creating an IoT device simulator written in NI LabVIEW, achieving testing rates impossible without custom software.● Built test automation for UI and APIs written in Ruby and using Selenium Webdriver, implementing continuous integration with Jenkins and reducing the test cycle from 2+ weeks to under 4 hours.● Performed penetration testing using security testing tools and scripts using Kali Linux and SQLMap.Identified key security vulnerabilities in a customer facing webapp.

Cheshire, Connecticut, United States

● Led and organized a successful robotics team, achieving World Finalist status in 2015 and 2016 – a feat not accomplished in 10+ year previous team history.● Taught LabVIEW programming and robotics design to dozens of high school students● Designed, constructed, programmed, tested a robot in six weeks● Oversaw budgeting, assignments, scheduling, marketing, fundraising, outreach. Raised thousands ofdollars to help the team.

Wallingford, Connecticut, United States

● Developed automated tests in LabVIEW, qualifying embedded firmware and systems. Saved hundreds of man hours per year vs. previously manual testing efforts.● Automated R&D tasks via LabVIEW, reducing software regression test cycles from 80+ to under 12 hours.● Created a VMware-hosted, distributed software regression test environment. Wrote a suite of automated UI test scripts in TestComplete to run within test environment. Went from occasional manual testing, to running full suite of tests, on-demand daily. Lead to release of customer software within months of automated test introduction.

Simsbury, Connecticut, United States

● Extensively automated software regression test process via shell and batch scripting (reduced cycle from 2+ weeks to 1 day). This included designing & building of Presidential Award-winning QA/Testing Center of Excellence● Monitored remote Alpha and Beta test systems, via SSH, running embedded Linux, analyzed OS and app diagnostics Identified critical (beta) software issues in the field running at customer sites.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society

B.S., Integrated Science, Business, And Technology

Information Management Concentration