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Los Angeles, California, US

Los Angeles, California, US

Boulder, CO, US

• Designed and built a custom web app for the National Solar Tour to replace the buggy and hard-to-use previous website, increasing usability and drastically streamlining data management to save 50+ hours of employee.
• Created Power BI reports and performed Python analyses on membership data in collaboration with the membership director to facilitate better data-driven decision making in the organization.
• Provided a positioning strategy, marketing strategy and messaging assessment.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Product owner and lead developer for circular supply chain traceability software (Oceanworks Track & Trace) documenting ocean-bound plastic cleanup and recycling operations.
• Interviewed suppliers in Asia to understand their operations, what data could reasonably be collected and the best means of ingesting that data.
• Increased supplier data submission compliance by over 500% by iteratively building intuitive desktop and mobile user interfaces, improving automatic data validation and writing comprehensive documentation.
• Managed the initial development of a new customer order dashboard, serving as Scrum Master, mentoring two junior developers and laying the foundation for an on-time delivery of the project.

Los Angeles, California, US

Primary full-stack software engineer responsible for supporting the operations team and refining internal and customer-facing code.

Boston, MA, US

• Individual contributor for “unicorn” regenerative agriculture software and biotech company.
• Created WCAG/ARIA-compliant React components adhering to Indigo’s design system to enable product teams to easily build complex user interfaces while maximizing accessibility and code quality. (6/20 - 5/21)
• Built React pages as primary front-end engineer (aside from tech lead) on team responsible for Marketplace pages related to pricing tools, Indigo’s primary source of revenue from Marketplace. (5/21 - 11/21)

Arlington, Massachusetts, US

• Interviewed hydrologists, mocked up user interfaces using Adobe Illustrator and prototyped a React GUI for syncing data between CUAHSI’s HydroShare cloud storage and JupyterHub computing platforms.
• Assisted with Python backend development to get the project over the finish line.
• Presented at the CUAHSI booth during the American Geophysical Union 2019 Fall Meeting in San Francisco and gathered feedback from scientists at the conference through co-design activities.

Needham, MA, US

Modeling and Simulation of the Physical World (FA17), The Digital Eye (intro photography, FA17, FA18 & FA19), Advanced Digital Photography (FA19), & Principles of Engineering (systems integration, FA18 & FA19)

Austin, Texas, US

• Sole developer working with operations manager to streamline food waste repurposing operations.
• Created a custom web-based truck routing assistant and customer analytics portal, which reduced collection truck routing time by over 80 percent.
• Developed algorithm to allocate customers to service days based on geographic location, average pickup size and service frequency needs while minimizing driving distance to increase collection efficiency.

Boston, MA, US

Analyzed calibration degradation of LIDAR sensors on self-driving vehicles. Created graphical tool for visualizing collected data and for identifying trends in that data. Helped develop new methods of data collection and analysis.

Provided part-time assistance with development of next-generation browser-based programming environment for VEX Robotics enthusiasts. Development done in Node.js.

Needham, MA, US

Lead frontend developer for new open-source community calendar platform built using React & Redux. Designed UI and implemented Redux. Developed customizable React calendar view module.

Created WordPress websites and serviced Windows, Mac, and mobile systems for both private individuals and small businesses. Recurring clients included an art gallery, culinary retreat, and dental office.Jan - Aug 2016: Independent contractor for Mobile Computer Doctor, Inc.

Assisted in the development of the PCB CAD program PCBWeb. Worked primarily with C# and XAML in Visual Studio. Built mathematical expression parser and evaluator.