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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, and organizing feature requests and other backlog priorities• 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 the context of report management operations and by 28% (from 5.95s to 4.28s) in the context of laboratory information operations

• 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• Create and maintain websites to demonstrate faculty research

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• Recognized as employee of the month on two separate occasions for successfully implementing the instructional model, increasing student involvement, and contributing to the training and development of other employees

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• Coded video data, transcribed audio data, and created datasets for analysis

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