Maxwell Sechzer Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, US

New York, New York, US

• Conducted Performance reviews, held 1:1s, ran weekly and monthly planning meetings for the Persado self service team.
• Reorganized the team’s development cycle allowing us to release monthly, with a 50% decrease in bug reports and critical bug fixes.
• Developed a curriculum to improve the Object Oriented Programming knowledge and experience of the team.
• Managed the development and deployment of Persado’s first Chrome extension
• Trained new technical leads to be able to manage their teams and deploy their applications without my supervision

New York, New York, US

• Managed, wrote MVP code for, and launched Persado Social, an application using the Facebook Graph and Marketing APIs to develop the ability for our clients to use Persado technology to improve the copy on their.
• Lead the development, planning, deployment, and hiring requirements for Persado’s self service applications.
• Wrote Persado’s first web payments integration using Stripe
• Work with UX, QA, Data Science, IT, and Product teams to develop product direction, write user stories, find and fix bugs, and plan future development cycles based on the Product Roadmap.
• Conducted code reviews, improved test coverage, and handled deployments.
• Began the transition of Persado's codebase from Rails 4.x, MYSQL, and Backbone/Marionette to Rails 5, Postgresql, and React.

New York, New York, US

• Developed the frontend and backend of the Persado enterprise system.
• Worked on major features such as Aggregate Content Reporting and creation and analysis of Persado based controls.
• Performed several refactors and upgrades such as upgrading Backbone/Marionette and redesigning the grammar parser in OO manner.
• Solely developed two greenfield projects using Rails 4 and Angular.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US

• Researched the relationship between perinatal environment, metabolism, and coping style in Bobwhite quail
• Performed open flow respirometry trials, implemented novel behavioral assays developed the previous summer, and raised a small population of Bobwhite quail from eggs
• Analysed data using Excel and SPSS

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US

• Created protocols for raising and maintaining laboratory Bobwhite quail and Bengalese finch populations
• Developed behavioral assays for both Bobwhite quail and Bengalese finches for use the following year
• Wrote a VBA script in Excel to automate the analysis and data storage for the Golondrinas de las Americas project

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US

• Participated in research on inherited non-syndromic mental retardation in Amish and Mennonite populations
• Designed forward and reverse primers to target desired genetic sequences during purification
• Amplified and purified DNA from human neuroblasts and kidney cells using PCR and gel electrophoresis
• Ligated the PCR product into a plasmid vector and transfected it into E. coli
• Transfected DNA product into mouse neuroblasts for subsequent immunofluorescence

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US

• Researched the relationship between metabolic rate and movement behavior in wild Carolina chickadees
• Captured wild birds every weekend, applied bands and RFID tags, took blood, and recorded body metrics
• Wrote a VBA script in Excel to sort and analyse the data
• Presented findings at the Fall 2012 F&M research fair and the Spring 2012 F&M research fair

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, US

• Worked in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to investigate the effects of temperature on tree swallow incubation behavior using Peltier units
• Caught resident tree swallows daily, applied bands and RFID tags, took blood, and recorded body metrics
• Maintained wired and wireless network connecting 500 nest boxes to a central server
• Installed, repaired, and operated proprietary network capable Peltier units, thermocouples, network cameras, and RFID readers for the nest boxes
• Developed an Arduino based entry-exit detector to improve reliability of bird movement data

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Neuroscience

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