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Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Agile approach to the iterative design, development, and deployment of information systems used to improve workflow and engage users within the complex genetics and digital health industry
• Design the architecture of complex information systems and expert systems to support business operations, and research and development
• Produce technical specification documentation, project plans, feasibility analyses, and cost-benefit analyses
• Manage communications with product owners and other stakeholders in support of analyzing problems, identifying solutions, discussing the feasibility of and trade-offs between solutions, performing UI/UX evaluations.
• Perform UI/UX evaluations and identify trade-offs between recommended solutions
• Executed a transition from a monolithic system architecture to microservices, improving performance in terms of duration of time in seconds to finish loading the client-side user interface by 57% (5.95s to 2.54s) in.

• IS 0017 - Object Oriented Programming
• IS 1024 - System Analysis and Design
• IS 2300 - Human Information Processing

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Provide technical leadership and closely work with teams of student designers, student software developers, clients, and collaborators from various schools and departments, as well as with industry partners
• Lead new project initiatives, research and implement new technologies, identify research opportunities, and supervise existing projects
• Analyze, design, plan, schedule, and direct work for complex software development projects using a variety of programming and database development languages
• Design and administer usability studies, and analyze and evaluate results to produce design suggestions
• Develop baseline project plans, update project documentation, produce summative reports, and disseminate progress with lab leadership
• Demonstrate projects to diverse audiences with varying ranges of domain knowledge and technical expertise

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Remotely managed research and development of a data-driven virtual patient simulator
• Coordinated communications between faculty advisors and six team members, assigned tasks, and produced reports and monthly updates
• Reviewed academic literature for relevant information and key facts, interviewed domain experts for design evaluations, and performed UI/UX analyses
• Generated models of health states based on actual patient data to drive system behavior
• Utilized natural language processing techniques to scrape targeted free-text fragments from social media content for use in system development

Orlando, Florida

• Provided instructional support to student-athletes in a variety of undergraduate academic subjects, including philosophy, mathematics, and computer science
• Identified and assessed learner challenges related to English as a second language, different learning styles, and varying technical abilities
• Consistently received scores of outstanding on all evaluations of the execution of the instructional model and administrative duties
• Maintained student-session records, and regularly submitted time-sensitive daily reports

Orlando, Florida

• Provided supplemental course instruction to undergraduate students in Data Structures and Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, and Statistics
• Identified and assessed learner challenges related to English as a second language, different learning styles, and varying technical abilities
• Effectively communicated technical information to an entry-level audience while improvising to meet their needs
• Promoted the development of skills that serve beyond the scope of the course
• Consistently received scores of very good to outstanding on random and bi-yearly evaluations on the execution of the instructional model and administrative duties
• Maintained student-session records, and regularly submitted time-sensitive monthly reports

Orlando, Florida

• Assisted in research activities of various studies in social signal processing and human-robot interaction supporting the Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance program
• Created a taxonomy in support of engineering synthetic human social cognition
• Independently developed proof of concept for automatically annotating incident reports and evaluating teamwork
• Designed computer simulated vignettes to implement as experimental stimuli
• Guided participants through experimentation by following scripted protocol that required instructing, monitoring, debriefing and interviewing
• Surveyed literature and prepared reports of relevant information and key facts

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Produced a grant proposal, budget, and IRB protocol for developing standardized training, assessment, and evaluation procedures for assistive robotic manipulators
• User-tested the JACO robot arm, explored robotic ergonomics, and piloted experimental protocol
• Hosted demonstrations of a smart home kitchen environment
• Intern of the week after the completion of the first week of the research program

Master Of Science (M.S.), Human-Centered Computing

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Psychology/Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Psychological Society, Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology (D21), Robotics Club, Psi Chi.

Aa, Sociology, General Studies