• Feature development in backend Java services to enable customers in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry, including multiple Fortune 100 companies, to optimize and track their promotions. This work includes consumption of first- and second-party data, API design for third-party integrations, and periodically being the point of contact for any issues faced by our customer success team
• Implemented operational improvements, including error reporting with Sentry, consistent distributed caching with Hazelcast, and schema changes needed for performance improvements
• Test-Driven Development using modern tooling: code reviews with Upsource, sprint and issue management with an Agile methodology using Jira, CI/CD with Jenkins to Google Kubernetes Engine

• Backend Java/Spring development to facilitate scientific collaboration, including:

  • Primary developer for file hosting management and sharing for external users
  • Primary developer for porting leaky, legacy database connection management into Spring
  • Investigated and implemented a file-system-based quota system for our users
  • Involved in development, ongoing operations/deployments, and user-facing support

• Frontend web development:

  • Converted JSP website into a reactive website using Vue.js and ES6 modules
  • Assisted in ongoing bug fixes and feature development
  • Designed and implemented a web UI for submitting computational jobs
  • Assisting in development, ongoing operations/deployments, and user-facing support

• Management of Docker images providing a Compute environment for external users, including:

  • Conversion of manually created Docker images into reproducibly built images (writing Dockerfiles)
  • Creation of a CI pipeline using Jenkins to build all images in the correct order and Selenium to test images
  • Handling user support and requests for scientific software

• Advocated for and implemented (with team) Git Flow for organized source code management

• Design and Prototyping of an on-premise Kubernetes cluster

• Containerizing Tomcat WAR and Express applications for deployment on Kubernetes

• Focused on characterizing morphological features in Hubble Space Telescope near-IR images
• Successfully received funding and telescope time through competitive NASA proposals

• Recitation instructor, lab instructor, and grader for introductory physics

• Taught topics including Algebra, Calculus, Statistics and Discrete Mathematics

• Creation of Zeeman Effect fitting routines in IDL

• Volunteered with a team of students to provide exercise incentives for Chicago-area students
• Integrated data visualizations using Google Maps API with Ruby on Rails

• Fractal analysis using Daubechies wavelets to study scales of homogeneity among SDSS galaxies

Tasks around the university Physics department, including:

• Webmaster
• First-year Liaison
• Graduate Student Association Representative

As a licensed member of the Amateur Radio Service, I have been fortunate to help provide cross-agency radio communication support for a number of events:

• Glass City Marathon
• Sylvania Triathalon/Duathalon/SuperKids Race
• Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
• Toledo Air Show

Prepared for, and assisted students at events including:

• Women in Science Day
• High School Physics Camp
• Clean Energy Workshop
• Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

Responsible for organizing meetings, soliciting funding requests, and planning events.