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Denver Metropolitan Area

Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, United States

- Contributed to the development of BMW Angular based tools used by dealers and technicians, including inventory management, warranty modernization, and maintaining older tools.- Engaged with the software development life cycle within a large organization, including user story design, development, testing, CI/CD, maintenance, and documentation.- Participated in daily scrum calls discussing progress made on user stories, and any potential blockers or support needed to continue with work.

New York, United States

I worked in Cybersecurity in researching and drafting security standards for the organization to follow.I contributed towards:- Creating the initial draft of a Data Classification Standard- Creating the initial draft of a Ransomware Playbook- Research in Identity and Access Management techniques- Documenting progress and updates on the security features of a new product in development.

Santa Clara, California, United States

Contributed work towards the improvement of the Pivot Yoga app built in Unity. - Created filters for yoga classes to let users sort the classes by difficulty, duration, and instructor names. - Improved class downloads by allowing the download to resume where it left off after being interrupted. - Used SonarQube and SonarScanner for static code analysis on the Pivot Yoga app to find and fix any potential code issues. - Created an Excel spreadsheet that filters and organizes user metadata from the app using macros written in VBA and Excel formulas. - Started development on the implementation of an Acoustic Echo Cancellation by Dissonance to cancel out app audio from being received by the user microphone.

Santa Clara, California

Contributed towards the development of Pivot Yoga.- Developed an automation script for gathering various sensor data over an extended period of time, saving about 3+ hours of time for each bath of data;- Diagnosed, debugged, and updated firmware for newly manufactured Printed Control Boards that house sensors and Wifi chips- Wrote code to investigate and report the different performance (such as throughput and latency) of various wireless network protocol including TCP/IP/ Wifi Direct, and Wifi via Router- Evaluated the performance of the first manufactured smart clothing Printed Control Boards through diagnostics code and hardware tools such as an oscilloscope.

Santa Clara, California

Contributed towards the development of the Pivot sensors.- Created an acknowledgement method between sensors and their central hub- Designed a heartbeat mechanism between mobile devices and sensors to check network status and availability- Wrote code to periodically send the latest battery status information to the user device- Programmed a wireless packet sniffer program to monitor and evaluate network traffic and help in diagnosing issues in data communication.

Computer Science

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

High School Diploma 2019, Computer Science