Martha Buchanan Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Integrated with an Full Stack team in GRS - Surety, partaking in trainings and daily agile ceremonies. Tackled a business critical project on a tight timeframe while maintaining engineering excellence and positive team relationships.• Implemented new features in a monolithic legacy application in Ruby on Rails• Identified a performance bottleneck and implemented a solution which improved average page load performance by 87%• Drove discussions to modernize monolithic legacy application via microfrontend architecture• Improved portfolio documentation and inter team communication by enforcing GitHub templates• Thoughtfully questioned business context to improve understanding of features the team is being asked to develop in order to ensure robust solutions• Participated in the Ignite Hackathon, building an SPA in AWS in order to assist with return to office

Boston, Ma, Us

Integrated with an Full Stack team in GRS - Surety, partaking in trainings and daily agile ceremonies.• Identified a backend API call which was causing a performance bottleneck in the SDI application, and improved it's performance from ~10s on average to 1-2s on average, significantly improving application performance• Maintained an application with a Ruby on Rails backend and React frontend and took part in migrating one of its services to AWS in order to improve it's performance and scalability. • Created a new stack with most up to date Node tech (ESM) in order to continue to propel Liberty's tech stack into the future.• Managed production releases for a full stack application• Took lead on writing the Threat Model for our application's new AWS services, collaborating with engineering team lead and BISO• Suggested and implemented team process improvements, including new Slack Channels and better team organization through note taking in OneNote• Received overwhelmingly positive peer feedback from teammates, product owners, and scrum masters due to commitment for continuous improvement, dedication to engineering excellence, and willingness to ask questions

Boston, Ma, Us

Integrated with an API-based team in GRS - Specialty Underwriting, partaking in trainings and daily agile ceremonies. • Created a Lambda to synchronize multiple Azure AD group permissions nightly with otherservices including Graph API, AWS KMS for secret encryption, and SSM for token storage for secure user management. • Developed a S3 hosted Angular PWA, allowing consumers configure products into the GUSP API, saving time over manually configuring CSV files and enforcing data safety for improved data accuracy. Integrated with GUSP API and Github API. • Leveraged Apigee with the Datadog API to provide insights to consumers and developers about GUSP API metrics including errors, usage by endpoint, and calls per product in order to present metric data to stakeholders.• Participated in the 2022 Ignite Hackathon creating an Electron.js hosted Angular PWI.

Exeter, Nh, Us

Pediatric physical therapist focused on treating children ages birth to 21. Treated patients with various musculoskeletal, genetic, and neuromuscular conditions or injuries in outpatient, aquatic, and school settings.

Manchester, New Hampshire, Us

Staff physical therapist in a primarily outpatient orthopedic setting. Managed patients with diverse diagnoses including post-op, deconditioning, and a variety of musculoskeletal disorders while working closely with MDs and PAs in order to coordinate patient care. Supervised PT aides, students. Navigated Epic systems.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Us

Acute Pediatric Clinical Rotation with a focus on establishing skills to evaluate, treat, and educate pediatric patients and their families. Included using various outcome measures including the Bayley Infant Motor Scale, and the Hammersmith Functional Motor Scale. Implemented, reviewed, revised and progressed individual PT treatment programs for pediatric patients with various musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, developmental, and psychological conditions with diverse medical and psychosocial backgrounds under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist. Assessed family dynamics and educated appropriately. Used Epic Systems to document evaluation, treatment, re-evaluation, and discharge notes.

Assisted Drs. Lewek and McCarty with various research and office tasks. Tested patients with history of stroke and organized data for UNC's Stroke Research Registry.

Outpatient Pediatric Clinical Rotation with a focus on establishing skills to evaluate, treat, and educate pediatric patients. Included using various outcome measures, implementing, reviewing, revising and progressing individual PT treatment programs for pediatric patients with various musculoskeletal and neuromuscular conditions with diverse medical and psychosocial backgrounds under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist. Also included family assessment and education. Used Cerner Systems to document evaluation, treatment, re-evaluation, and discharge notes. Created and presented an in-service on cervical instability in the pediatric patient.

Acute Neuromuscular Clinical Rotation with a focus on establishing skills to evaluate, establish goals, plan discharge including equipment planning, and complete patient education. Included implementing, reviewing, revising and progressing individual PT programs for patients with various acute neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary, gastric, and integumentary conditions and diverse medical and psychosocial backgrounds under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist. Focused evaluations and treatment in the Neurology and Bariatric/Gastric Surgery units. Used Epic Systems to document evaluation, treatment, re-evaluation, and discharge notes. Observed neurosurgery including L3-4 lumbar fusion.

Assisted with clinic organization including insurance, chart management, and patient scheduling via in-person, phone, and email contacts.

Outpatient Orthopedic Clinical Rotation with a focus on establishing skills for patient education and treatment. Included implementing, reviewing, revising and progressing individual PT treatment programs for patients with various musculoskeletal conditions and diverse medical and psychosocial backgrounds under the supervision of a licensed physical therapist. Used Epic Systems to document evaluation, treatment, re-evaluation, and discharge notes, and spoke to Epic representatives regarding the clinic's use of VHI to create home exercise programs. Created and presented an in-service on OrthoSensor's VERASENSE Sensor-Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty after observing 2 total knee arthroplasties using that technique, and a total hip arthroplasty.

Madison, Wi, Us

Madison, Wi, Us

Madison, Wi, Us

Assisted groups of grandparents and their grandchildren learn about their selected "major" and other activities around the campus area during select weekends during the Summers of 2013 and 2014.

Computer Science

Frontend Nanodegree, Computer Software Engineering

Doctor Of Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy/Therapist

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Kinesiology And Exercise Science

Spanish Language, Culture, And Literature

High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates