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• Maintain and improve existing backend services written in TypeScript and hosted in AWS
• Work with client services to gather requirements and oversee the development of new features
• Migrate services from legacy custom gateway service to an API Gateway implementation
• Migrate authentication and authorization from Auth0 to AWS Cognito
• Provide guidance and code review for offshore engineering team

San Diego, California, United States

• Engineering lead for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network within the Department of Biomedical Informatics responsible for:
• Leading a team consisting of one other Software Engineer, a Product Manager, and a Software Engineering Intern
• Responsible for AWS infrastructure for the Gateway application and supporting systems making use of several AWS offerings, including: EC2, ElasticBeanstalk, RDS (MySQL), Lambda, CloudWatch, CodePipeline, CloudFormation,
• Lead developer of existing Django web application which is responsible for all patient data within the study including 2 PB of genetic data
• Upgraded researcher facing REST API to improve access to system data for biomedical researchers
• Migrated from Django template frontend to upgrade React frontend including: creation of design mockups, conducting user interviews, architecting React project, and development of features in TypeScript

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Worked with a variety of clients in many different roles including:𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗪𝗲𝗯 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿, 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
• Plan and develop curriculum materials for teaching web development boot camp courses
• Facilitate courses (online and in-person) to adult learners, including delivering lectures, grading assignments, and one-on-one mentorship
• Delivered courses at: Saint Joseph's College of Maine, Framingham State University, Emerson College, and Worcester State University

Greater Boston Area

• Develop features and fix issues for an enterprise SaaS, employee benefits platform using: PHP, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS, React, MongoDB, MySQL, Docker, AWS SQS and supporting technologies
• Provide code review, QA and mentoring to development team members

Boston, MA

• Develop features and fix issues for an enterprise SaaS, employee engagement platform using: Ruby/Rails, Sass, Coffeescript, AWS Redshift and supporting technologies
• Manage tools for code quality, testing and deployment using: GitHub, CircleCI, Heroku, Hound, CodeClimate and supporting technologies
• Develop custom devops process and tools for development team using: NodeJS, Slack and supporting technologies
• Provide code review, QA and mentoring to development team members

Boston, MA

• Developed new features for the Accelerator software used to manage world’s largest startup accelerator
• Defined, with steering committee, product roadmap and feature scope
• Documented key features of the software for use by end-users, partners and outsourced development resources
• Improved development and deployment processes to ensure continuous uptime and consistent user experience

Boston, MA

• Built the industry leading Security Awareness Program offering (Gartner Magic Quadrant)
• Defined product vision and go-to-market strategy
• Hired and trained internal development team to bring all development in-house
• Created new processes and internal tools to reduce development timelines and integrate more seamlessly across the entire organization to reduce cost and time-to-market
• Architected new hosting service offering within the Amazon Cloud providing new revenue stream as well as increasing stickiness with customers
• Created the Customer Sponsorship program to identify and reflect market needs in core products through customer feedback in the development cycle

• Built the industry leading Security Awareness Program offering (Gartner's Magic Quandrant)
• Defined product vision and go-to-market strategy
• Hired and trained internal development team to bring all development in-house
• Created new processes and internal tools to reduce development timelines and integrate more seamlessly across the entire organization to reduce cost and time-to-market
• Architected new hosting service offering within the Amazon Cloud providing new revenue stream as well as increasing stickiness with customers
• Created the Customer Sponsorship program to identify and reflect market needs in core products through customer feedback in the development cycle

• Provided project management and technical expertise to the Access and Identity Management Service
• Coordinated with application, server and middleware teams to ensure consistent uptime
• Created transition plan for upgrading from Sun-based architecture to Oracle-based architecture inline with Oracle’s product roadmap

• Delivered courses consisting of examples, demos, labs and lecture materials pertaining to application security best practices to testers and developers
• Researched current trends in application security to keep course content current and to develop new courses
• Performed threat analysis as well as created and executed security test plans for client applications
• Provided security and technology expertise as pre-sales support to Business Development Managers

• Managed the security education practice within the services division including coordination of course delivery logistics such as scheduling, travel and materials, as well as billing and expenses
• Assisted Account Management team with customer needs assessment; developed curriculum to meet those needs
• Identified new courses to be developed and essential updates to existing courses; provided project management for these projects
• Assisted instructors with ongoing professional development

• Delivered courses consisting of examples, demos, labs and lecture materials pertaining to application security best practices to testers and developers
• Researched current trends in application security to keep course content current and to develop new courses
• Performed threat analysis as well as created and executed security test plans for client applications
• Published articles and presented at conferences to establish company as an industry thought leader

• Worked with a variety of clients in many different roles including:
• Developer for a State Health and Human Services Office
• Developed key components of large-scale enterprise service bus using several technologies (Java, XML, Tomcat, Weblogic and Red Hat Linux)
• Assisted project architects with designing new functionality as well as improving and documenting the development process
• Improved processes linked with operations through process redesign and task automation (Python & Bash)
• Developer & Tester for a Healthcare EDI Network

• Designed, implemented, maintained and provided user training for over 200 users for a department essential, web based information systems
• Administrated Linux servers which host department information systems
• Provided desktop and user support for over 100 staff

Ms, Computer Information System Security

Bs, Computer Science And Business

Activities and Societies: Co-Director of Explorations in Film & Cinema Student Program, Resident Advisor