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Pleasanton, California, US

Pleasanton, California, US

Pleasanton, California, US

Arlington, VA, US

Took on tech lead role on the Data Services team, which uses Hadoop, HBase, and Kiji for the ingest, storing, and retrieval of billions of smart-meter data records. Tech lead responsibilities included gatekeeping of our codebase by reviewing all pull requests, taking ownership of any high priority issues/fires/support, mentoring junior developers, and.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Primary engineer responsible for new features and maintenance of the Fortify Java Core Runtime Platform – a product that instruments bytecode to extract information from applications running in the JVM to report on or.
• Researched, designed, and implemented a method to use the Runtime Platform to detect the REST structure at initialization of an application using JAX-RS (Java) or WCF (.NET) to enhance gray-box testing with HP’s.
• Implemented configurable compression and FIPS-compliant AES encryption of the Runtime/WebInspect HTTP communication channel
• Architected and created a flexible guided live demo/training framework using SWT. Submitted framework as a new idea to the HP 2013 Cycle 3 InnoStream and received the highest number of votes among HP Software.

• Hired as first full time employee to develop a healthcare software product in the hospital enterprise space to perform resource optimization for patient throughput, increase patient/procedure visibility, and enhance.
• Designing, maintaining, and enhancing database schema and modeling using MySQL and Hibernate
• Providing all server-side business logic to support Scheduler and Client consumers
• Architecting a flexible seed/user/hybrid data model to allow custom configuration for individual hospitals
• Developing a seed data injector/extractor/converter using table metadata that became the primary tool for Operations to install and update the product to customers
• Analyzing customer needs to create robust HL7 feed interfaces and abstractions for ORM, SIU, ADT, Group Order, and Lab messages

Austin, Texas, US

Identified functional gaps between the PL/SQL and next-generation Java Pricing Engine and migrated pricing functionality for production.

Austin, Texas, US

Became lead developer of the product’s HTML UI. Worked closely with a Project Manager to redesign the functional flow. Was the sole developer responsible for architecting and implementing the application’s browser back button support.

Austin, Texas, US

Prevented hundreds of functional gaps and allowed managers to easily monitor code branch integrity by creating and maintaining a PERL script to generate a report specifying when code had been changed on one branch but not frontported to all of the other branches.Designed and maintained Common Development Directories for each Advanced Pricing release.

Cambridge, MA, US

Conducted research in coordination and resource allocation algorithms and partially observable Markov decision processes in a battle management world to complete a Master’s thesis. Implemented past research in the Windows environment using Java, modified the totally observable battle management world to partially observable, and compared results.

US

Designed and implemented a dynamic product-based website to allow a health product company to update its inventory and create new product description pages through a web-based interface. Created a new back and front end shopping cart system, enhancing site functionality and ease of use.Designed and programmed a web-based user and business account.

M.Eng., Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

S.B., Electrical Engineering And Computer Science