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Somerville, Ma, Us

Somerville, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Served on high-impact Agile team to build quality policy-servicing software for financial professionals with > 70K average monthly sessions. Applied cross-functional skillset to broad aspects of application development, from ideation to technical review, development, code review, testing, stakeholder presentation, and documentation.- Achieved major business goals collaboratively with on-time release of ServiceNet 2.0, improving user experience, then reduced service representative expenses by contributing to digitalization of 9 new policy transactions over subsequent 18 months.- Maintained application integrity by working with infrastructure teams on API gateway transition (DataPower to Kong), as well as AWS Landing Zone, Kafka Confluent Cloud, and Vault SaaS migration.- Drove efficiency by establishing and documenting team processes such as Thymeleaf HTML email template creation, Communication API troubleshooting, LaunchDarkly feature flag version documentation, and Docusign template creation.- Anticipated stakeholder needs and influenced application feature discussions by developing agent aggregate data visual dashboard proof of concept.Initiated, drafted, and executed high-performing team self-assessment survey and discussion to assess team Agile performance and improve team communication.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Studied and practiced coding toward landing my first coding job. Regularly worked with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node.JS, React, Redux, Axios, and Express. Experience included work with Three.js, Passport.js, JWT, Bcrypt.js, Mongoose, SASS, and PostgreSQL.Produced a portfolio to demonstrate coding skills, initially deployed on Heroku. In September 2024 I redeployed this portfolio on OnRender: https://patricklangcoding.onrender.com/

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Developed and delivered university-level Russian and German language courses to drive undergraduate cultural and foreign language education. - Ensured cohesive instruction and maintained tight deadlines by managing teams of 3-4 graduate student instructors.- Met shifting business needs by organizing pandemic-era teaching and testing methodologies.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Researched, wrote, and successfully defended book-length thesis on midcentury German theater and advanced state of discipline by sharing research publicly in conferences, presentations, and colloquia.Coordinated with stakeholders and experts, ensuring quality of research outputs.- Helped drive undergraduate linguistic education by teaching German language and culture courses, seminars, and recitations to classes of 8 - 40 students.- Received the Departmental Rita Stambaugh-Frank Borchardt Essay Award in 2014 for graduate student writing.- Received the UNC German Siegfried Mews Award for Excellence in Teaching German in 2015.

Durham, North Carolina

Researched, wrote, and successfully defended book-length thesis on midcentury German theater and advanced state of discipline by sharing research publicly in conferences, presentations, and colloquia.Coordinated with stakeholders and experts, ensuring quality of research outputs.- Helped drive undergraduate linguistic education by teaching German language and culture courses, seminars, and recitations to classes of 8 - 40 students.- Received the Departmental Rita Stambaugh-Frank Borchardt Essay Award in 2014 for graduate student writing.- Received the Duke German Helga Bessent Teaching Award in 2017.

Washington, D.C.

Streamlined professional academic research by identifying, reviewing and summarizing materials on language shift in Caucasus region of Europe.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), German Studies

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), German Studies

Doctoral Exchange Fellow, German Language And Literature

Doctoral Exchange Fellow, German Language And Literature

Master Of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Comparative Literature, First-Class Honors With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Trinity Literary Society Creative Writing; Extracurricular Irish Language A2Thesis: Totalizing Aesthetics.

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Honors College Political Science Club UB Urban Development Students against Sweatshops

Student Exchange, Russian Language And Literature