# Veronica Aldous > ► Software Engineer ► Genomics Subject Matter Expert Location: Greater Boston, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/veronicaaldous Technical Skills • Software: JIRA, Visual Studio Code, PowerBI • Programming languages: ECL, SQL , Java, Python, Linux (Unix) commands • Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint You can contact me at vaaldous@gmail.com ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ LexisNexis Risk Solutions Jan 2019 – Present • Pioneered and continues to enhance a PowerBI dashboard that collects errors from users over time and classifies them into meaningful categories for analysis. • Facilitates communication between interdisciplinary teams to support broad company missions, such as a company-wide transition to cloud services. • Balances priorities amongst multiple ongoing projects to ensure timely delivery of high priority work. Always delivers on deadlines and keeps close communication with colleagues to ensure priorities remain accurate. • Mentors junior colleagues to support their growth as software developers. • Supports customers by rapidly delivering data quality improvements. • Develops software in ECL to deliver quality improvements and enhancements to data collection builds. Takes ownership over code to ensure high quality deliverables and working systems. • Works on a wide variety of projects across the data engineering organization, developing broad expertise in the company’s mission. ### Cognitive Software Engineer/ Project Manager @ IBM Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area • Organized and managed testing events to test for defects and to improve project. • Managed cross-organizational projects and teams. • Supported engineers on team by meticulously writing and continuously enhancing instructions to ensure easy team access to testing servers, and by providing user access via Linux terminal commands. • Searched for defects in code, ensuring data accuracy. • Selected relevant patients for end user testing, facilitating data reliability. • Created clusters of medical cohorts for purposes of identifying similar patients for improving treatment options. • Identified predictive features from sample patients for machine learning models through collaboration with IBM research. • Utilized medical expertise as a healthcare subject matter expert to support information acquisition for medical research. ### Researcher, Risk Score Analytics for COPD @ Florida Atlantic University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Boca Raton, FL Risk Score Analytics for COPD Graduate level research using analytics to develop risk scores for readmission patients with COPD. ### Volunteer Notetaker @ Florida Atlantic University Jan 2010 – Jan 2016 | Boca Raton, FL Volunteer Notetaker for the Office for Students with Disabilities. ### Office Support Assistant @ Florida Atlantic University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Boca Raton, FL Front Office Employee and Professional Note Taker. ### Research Student, Genetics Research @ Florida Atlantic University Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Boca Raton, FL Research Experience: Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL (Mar 2013 – May 2016) • Genetics Lab Techniques to test for parasite presence (Jan 2015- May 2016) Genetic Research using a variety of laboratory techniques to test for presence of parasites in a variety of species. These techniques included DNA extraction, PCR • PCR to study migratory patterns (Mar 2013- May 2014) Genetic Research using DNA extraction and PCR extraction to analyze the paternity & migration patterns of terrapins. ### Intern, Watson for Genomics Subject Matter Expert @ IBM Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Boca Raton, FL • Improved cancer treatment options by training an artificial Intelligence system (IBM Watson) to recognize predictive features for genomic machine learning models. • Developed rules to training Watson. • Devised ground truth documents in Watson Knowledge Studio for entity and relationship extraction of unstructured text. • Analyzed Entity and Relationship extraction of clinical trial documents. • Identified predictive features for genomic machine learning models. ### Volunteer worker @ Cleveland Clinic Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Weston, FL Assisted nurses and staff in the intensive care unit (ICU). ## Education ### Product Management Certificate Cornell University ### Graduate Certificate in Computer Programming Harvard Extension School ### Master’s Degree in Masters of Science in Bioengineering Florida Atlantic University ### Bachelor’s Degree in Bachelor of Science in Biology Florida Atlantic University ### Bachelor’s Degree in Bachelor of Arts in English Florida Atlantic University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/veronica-aldous --- Source: https://flows.cv/veronicaaldous JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/veronicaaldous/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31