Graduate student in UC Berkeley's Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) program, building toward a career in AI safety and alignment research.
Experience
2024 — Now
Concord, California, United States
Core Responsibilities:
• Led end-to-end development of Behavioral Health Bed Management system: served as lead developer responsible for requirements gathering, system architecture design, and stakeholder coordination; created comprehensive scope documentation and presentation materials for IT Steering Committee (ITSC) approval process; managed cross-functional collaboration between clinical staff and IT teams to define workflows for bed capacity tracking and patient placement optimization
• Design and implement healthcare compliance solutions, including Transparency in Coverage data pipeline automation using Azure Blob Storage and automated JSON file synchronization
• Maintain and modernize legacy healthcare systems, troubleshooting complex .NET applications, SSIS packages, and SQL Server integrations
• Develop PowerShell and CLI automation scripts for ETL workflows, reducing manual processing time and improving data accuracy
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver technical solutions for healthcare data management initiatives
• Ensure HIPAA compliance and data security protocols across all development projects
Key Achievement:
• Resolved 2+ year backlog in regulatory compliance reporting through automated solution implementation, ensuring organizational adherence to federal healthcare transparency requirements
Current ML Initiatives:
• Collaborating with data science team on predictive modeling projects, including logistic regression models for chronic homelessness classification to improve resource allocation for mental health services.
2019 — 2023
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
Cloud engineer and technical consultant for Improving's diverse range of clients.
Projects include the following:
1) Catalis: Common Portal MVP
• Migrated on-premises application to AWS and configured IAM, VPC, EC2, EBS, and S3 integrations focusing on HA.
• Developed front-end components and services using Angular and TypeScript.
• Increased Angular integration test and unit test code coverage by 80% via Jest.
• Created CI/CD pipelines and CloudFormation templates to automate code and infrastructure deployments.
2) UCare: CORE Project
• Designed and implemented healthcare SOA applications using C# and .NET, integrating into Angular frontend.
• Enhanced API runtime efficiency by 32% by aggregating legacy data via SQL and PL/SQL stored procedures.
• Implemented Step Functions to invoke long-running serverless workflows handling data transformation needs.
3) Donatos: Customer Data Migration
• Implemented serverless RESTful APIs in API Gateway via Python and Django, decoupling application tiers while reducing integration response payload sizes by 75% and overall API latency by 50%.
• Utilized SNS with SQS Fanout to distribute integration transformation jobs to AWS Lambda functions.
• Migrated legacy customer data into a new normalized RDS Postgres database, reducing overall size by 90%.
• Documented RESTful API using the OpenAPI specification to streamline developer onboarding.
4) Assurant: MCI4 Rehost Project (MyCoverageInfo v4.0)
• Implemented Angular routing, dependency injection, and front-end components.
• Developed backend RESTful APIs and services via C#, .NET Core, EF Core, SQL Server, SQS, and Lambda functions.
• Increased policy retrieval speeds by 52% through an ElastiCache Redis implementation.
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
Alpharetta, Georgia, United States
LexisNexis Risk Solutions: Motor Vehicle Report ETL Suite
• Created an ETL suite in Python to pull data from SQL databases as well as various file formats, reducing manual data transformation efforts by 95%.
• Developed Python Flask webapp UI and API to automate test data creation, accelerating release cycles by 62%.
2017 — 2018
Warner Robins Air Force Base, GA, United States
579 SMXS: DBM Application Migration and Rehost
• Reverse-engineered a legacy Electronic Warfare database management program using Python, C#, .NET Framework, Entity Framework, and SQL Server.
• Led requirements research, implemented backend business rules, and designed the updated GUI using PyQT.
2017 — 2017
2017 — 2017
Warner Robins Air Force Base, GA, United States
ARCNet: UX Revamp & Offline CBT Development
• Developed CBT (Computer-Based Training) programs for the Air Force Reserve Command's ARCNet application and updated squadrons’ ARCNet webpages to meet business and UX requirements.
• Designed the UX for new CBTs and implemented RESTful APIs for completed CBT submissions.
• Improved existing CBT development processes, reducing the time to completion by 400% from one month to one week.
Education
UC Berkeley School of Information
Master's degree
Middle Georgia State University