# Mary Festa > Full Stack Engineer at Navattic Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/maryfesta ## Work Experience ### Full Stack Engineer @ Navattic Jan 2024 – Present ### Software Engineer, MR @ GE HealthCare Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 ### Software Engineering Specialist, MR @ GE HealthCare Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States - Migrate applications from legacy software to rearchitected software - Investigate and fix reported bugs - Develop Java services and UI microfrontends - Participate in the Agile Scrum framework - Served as interim scrum master for several months, leading Agile activities, handling team capacity, and fielding reported issues ### EEDP Software Engineer, Ultrasound @ GE HealthCare Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Greater Milwaukee Area EEDP Rotation 4: GI Ultrasound My primary goal this rotation was to work on the AppAPI team, adding a feature to the LOGIQ Ultrasound device to make sensor position data available for integrated third-party applications. This goal was accomplished, and I was able to pivot to working with the Decision Intelligence team to gain exposure to data science and contribute to the team. ### EEDP Software Engineer, MR @ GE HealthCare Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Greater Milwaukee Area EEDP Rotation 3: MR Host Application Development In this position, I worked as part of a scrum team contributing towards the development of MR products. I was able to work in both the back-end and front-end space, as well as participating in Agile activities such as sprint planning and retrospectives. ### EEDP Systems Engineer, X-Ray @ GE HealthCare Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Greater Milwaukee Area EEDP Rotation 2: X-Ray Systems Engineer This position is on the X-Ray Systems Engineering team, supporting Digital/AI feature development for the new Critical Care Suite (CCS) 3.0 NPI. During this rotation, I was a member of the CCS team which aims at expanding AI capabilities to improve patient care. Responsibilities included system design, requirements definition, understanding user needs, technical risk analysis and design reviews, FMEA design, system integration, and system verification. Worked to ensure system and subsystem requirements captured design and that system verification tests have full traceability to requirements. Drove system integration, working closely with clinical, workflow, and SW team to ensure features integrate effectively into X-Ray system workflow. ### EEDP Software Engineer, Digital @ GE HealthCare Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States The Edison Engineering Development Program (EEDP) is a 2-year rotational program consisting of four 6-month rotations driven by GE business priorities. This program also consists of advanced engineering coursework taught by GE employees. Edison engineers also participate in a team project contributing towards business goals; I worked on GEHC's life care solutions products, with the goal developing a proof of concept for moving its infrastructure to the cloud. EEDP Rotation 1: Workflow Manager Containerization Modified workflow manager application components in order to containerize their filesystems using Docker. This included setting up a private Docker registry for sharing built images between multiple docker hosts, writing Linux shell scripts for container start-up, creating and slimming custom Docker images, among other miscellaneous work required to get the viewer up and running. ### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Colgate University Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 - Lead a Peer-Lead Team Learning (PLTL) session for Computer Science 101 students by walking them through practice problems - Assist students with questions about coursework during open lab hours ### Community Leader (Resident Assistant) @ Colgate University Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 - Promote healthy, safe, and inclusive communities, challenge and support students in making meaningful and responsible decisions, create a purposeful residential experience through organizing large events for the residential commons - Disseminate information regarding policies, conduct, administrative matters, and campus events, facilitate opening and closing of residential facilities, maintain accurate floor rosters, participate in on-call coverage, address and document violations of university policy ### Computer Networks Researcher @ Colgate University Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Hamilton, New York - Create a program to modify router configurations obtained from network engineers in order to simulate campus computer networks in the GNS3 network simulator - Analyze simulated networks using Professor Aaron Gember-Jacobson’s framework for distilling network insights from forwarding behavior - Observe changes in forwarding behavior of simulated routers to create a program which generates Cisco router configurations from a summary of forwarding updates ### Data Sorter @ Aspen Tax Consultants Inc Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 - Use Python to read New York State Tax Assessment Rolls in their original pdf format - Programmatically parse through conversion output to extract relevant data and format the output as an Excel document ### Web Designer @ CiviliNation Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 - Redesigned civilination.org website to be more modern and user-friendly by updating the theme and adding features which made the site easier to navigate and more efficient - Create and organize new pages in a logical and visually appealing fashion in order to reflect goals of organization to promote internet safety - Engage directly with client to establish project scope, interaction guidelines, and project timelines, as well as make adjustments based on feedback ### Student Supervision Assistant @ Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 - Assembled schedules and kept records of attendance for counselors and group of campers that they were responsible for - Disseminated information to counselors and ensured the safety of the campers - Served as the main contact point for counselors and fielded any issues that surfaced ### Research Assistant @ Colgate University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 - Collected demographic data on professors at Colgate University and consolidated the information into a spreadsheet utilizing excel for a research project investigating student/faculty interactions - Analyzed statistics and information to answer how student interactions with professors change based on various factors including race, gender, education, citizenship, and native language ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science Colgate University Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 ### Computer Science The University of Edinburgh Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maryfesta --- Source: https://flows.cv/maryfesta JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/maryfesta/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01