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• Enhance and maintain CTRM in Ruby on Rails, React/TypeScript, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL
• Build background jobs, middleware, stream processing, and GUIs to facilitate clients’ trade operations
• Lead technical team for overhauling client-specific data attribute capabilities
• Modernize legacy frontends from Ember and Vanilla JS to React TS
• Emphasize congruent and smooth user experience
• Enforce functionality, flexibility, and quality of code

Greater Chicago Area

• Contributed to full stack of e-learning application suite in Rails, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, and Vue/Vuex
• Consulted with Product, Design, and QA for optimal UX, maximum maintainability, and minimal implementation time
• Future-proofed and documented code in RSpec and Mocha
• Assessed and refactored code for quality and functionality
• Accurately and punctually resolved internal and external support requests

Greater New York City Area

• Monitored endangered population of 60+ Blanding’s turtles in 5-acre natural and mitigation wetland complex in Mid-Hudson region of New York; conducted ecological research on turtles and habitat
• Managed daily field activities during 3-month field/nesting season including: handling, examining, radiotracking, and surveilling wildlife in adverse conditions and applying protective cages to turtle nests
• Trained students and volunteers in research protocols and safety procedures
• Set transects in and gathered soil samples of 4 individual wetlands; surveyed wetland vegetation
• Drafted grants annually for equipment funding; organized and updated 3+ years of project records; submitted annual analyses and seasonal reports to environmental authorities

Greater New York City Area

• Managed high volume of e-mails, phone calls, contacts, and appointments in French
• Composed Board reports, meeting minutes and notes, speeches, and bilingual correspondence

Dijon, France

• Taught English to small groups of French high school students
• Collaborated with principal English language instructors to ensure continuity of subject matter and skills

Wellesley, MA

• Provided support during a study of phonetic/phonological aspects of first language acquisition
• Edited and annotated recordings of experimental subjects for analysis

Wellesley, MA

• Tutored elementary and intermediate-level students of Wellesley College French Department
• Helped students to increase fluency via revision of writing and reinforcement of grammatical concepts

Aix-en-Provence, France

• Tested subjects for behavioral stage of linguistic fMRI study regarding neural representation of words
• Identified and resolved procedural shortcomings to obtain more conclusive results
• Researched related studies; drafted literature review

Aix-en-Provence, France

• Created and administered individual and group English lessons to French children aged 5-12 years
• Taught basic grammar, vocabulary, and culture; assisted with English schoolwork

Bachelor'S Degree, French, Linguistics

Activities and Societies: French House, Shafer House Council, Dorm Crew• Primary coursework in linguistics, cognitive science, and French.

Education record

Fullstack JavaScript web development bootcamp teaching practical applications of CS theory, algorithms, data structures, and industry.

Foreign Exchange Student, Linguistics, French

Study abroad via Wellesley-in-Aix program. Exclusively French coursework in linguistics and English-French translation.