As an acoustics and vibration consulting firm, Metropolitan Acoustics had been getting calls from scientists who were worried about imperceptible sounds and vibrations causing problems for experiments in their labs. While consulting on these jobs, our acoustics team realized that their short-term measurements couldn't identify all of the problematic vibrations affecting the researchers' experiments because many of the worst effects occur outside of working hours or at unexpected times. To solve this, the team at Metropolitan Acoustics decided to develop a tool which could monitor labs for sounds and vibrations of concern 24/7. I was hired to build an MVP of the monitoring system as a software engineer with experience in embedded development and the ability to work with a wide range of technologies.After getting a prototype of our hardware working, I put together a GUI for the system and coordinated with a development team to convert that system into a cloud platform on AWS. I also contributed to acoustics consulting projects by using our device to measure baseline vibration levels in buildings as they were being converted into lab spaces. During this time I learned a lot about acoustical analysis and signal processing, while the rise of biotech in Philadelphia led to lots of lab spaces popping up all around the city.

To address issues with scientific accuracy, experimental reproducibility, and animal welfare, Metropolitan Acoustics has been developing a continuous monitoring platform called SenSV to measure and create reports of the vibroacoustic environment in research labs.As technical lead for the SenSV project, my role has expanded from software and hardware development to include engaging in market research and delving into the scienctific aspects of the project as well. Over the last several months I've focused on R&D to improve our product based on discussions with scientists, including writing and submitting an application for a provisional patent to upgrade our sound and vibration measuring equipment for animal labs. On the less technical side, I've been working with our CEO to collaborate on business development, marketing, and grant applications. In addition, I have continued to improve and customize our vibration monitoring, analysis, and reporting software for our SaaS platform as well as developing in-house tools for vibration consulting jobs.

Implemented a variety of features for real-time video streaming systems to run in a virtual environment. I had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of technologies; I primarily contributed to real-time video streaming software, but I also assisted with development of a continuous integration system to speed the development cycle and identified and resolved bugs across the project frontend, backend, and test setup.

One month after starting in this role as a co-op, I assumed the lead development role on a project. This included redesigning our initial solution for our client to accommodate changes in their requirements. I worked on several other projects to develop firmware for a variety of embedded IoT devices and libraries, and I coordinated with clients and remote engineering teams across multiple time zones. After my 6 month co-op period ended, I continued working this position part-time while I was in school for an additional 6 months.

I needed to learn a nearly extinct programming language for this position, but after spending my first week reading through an old ALGOL68 textbook they provided I was able to start modifying their legacy codebase. I focused on adding security audit and logging features to the networking software for their mainframe OS.

Created and modified web applications for an internal site to be used by engineers working at Lockheed Martin.