I worked on the St. Jude Medical EnSite Velocity system with Josh for about two years, on the core systems and signal processing team. Josh was a great colleague and mentor to work with, and remains one of the most impressive engineers I've worked with to this day. He's always been one of the experts you go to for questions that require deep understanding of the large scale software architecture of the system, but at the same time someone very approachable and easy to get along with and collaborate with. Most importantly, he has the ability and drive to effect change at the big-picture level, making significant non-trivial improvements to the customer experience and quality of the product. During my tenure on the team, Josh was tasked with everything from systemwide architectural refactoring of a legacy codebase, to end-to-end development of major new customer-facing feature, down to the humblest of tasks such as upgrading libraries, helping to investigate bugs and writing up tests and documentation for FDA compliance. His work ethic and humility allows him to be effective and a top contributor in all the needs of a complex software/systems project -- whether large or small, fun or tedious. Having completed the architectural survey and refactoring, he gave in-depth presentations and one-on-one individual help to the rest of the team, and was a constant resource for architectural and system behaviour questions. When leading the effort to support a major new product feature, he acted as point-of-contact liaison and software team representative to several cross-functional teams, driving features to completion and maintaining communication on schedules and deliverables. He remains professional and supportive and courteous even when others are difficult to work with, and at the same time is uncompromising on quality and best practices & standards. It is telling that Josh continued to lead the way in process modernization and improvements to the software development environment in the last few years. While a lot of us would gripe and grumble about out-of-date or inefficient tools, then go back to using them for our day to day tasks, Josh takes initiative and rallies others to improve the status quo. Josh has been a significant pillar of the success of the software projects he has been able to work on, and would be an exceptional addition to any systems or software team, no matter the domain.

I worked on the St. Jude Medical EnSite Velocity system with Josh for about two years, on the core systems and signal processing team. Josh was a great colleague and mentor to work with, and remains one of the most impressive engineers I've worked with to this day. He's always been one of the experts you go to for questions that require deep understanding of the large scale software architecture of the system, but at the same time someone very approachable and easy to get along with and collaborate with. Most importantly, he has the ability and drive to effect change at the big-picture level, making significant non-trivial improvements to the customer experience and quality of the product. During my tenure on the team, Josh was tasked with everything from systemwide architectural refactoring of a legacy codebase, to end-to-end development of major new customer-facing feature, down to the humblest of tasks such as upgrading libraries, helping to investigate bugs and writing up tests and documentation for FDA compliance. His work ethic and humility allows him to be effective and a top contributor in all the needs of a complex software/systems project -- whether large or small, fun or tedious. Having completed the architectural survey and refactoring, he gave in-depth presentations and one-on-one individual help to the rest of the team, and was a constant resource for architectural and system behaviour questions. When leading the effort to support a major new product feature, he acted as point-of-contact liaison and software team representative to several cross-functional teams, driving features to completion and maintaining communication on schedules and deliverables. He remains professional and supportive and courteous even when others are difficult to work with, and at the same time is uncompromising on quality and best practices & standards. It is telling that Josh continued to lead the way in process modernization and improvements to the software development environment in the last few years. While a lot of us would gripe and grumble about out-of-date or inefficient tools, then go back to using them for our day to day tasks, Josh takes initiative and rallies others to improve the status quo. Josh has been a significant pillar of the success of the software projects he has been able to work on, and would be an exceptional addition to any systems or software team, no matter the domain.

I worked on the St. Jude Medical EnSite Velocity system with Josh for about two years, on the core systems and signal processing team. Josh was a great colleague and mentor to work with, and remains one of the most impressive engineers I've worked with to this day. He's always been one of the experts you go to for questions that require deep understanding of the large scale software architecture of the system, but at the same time someone very approachable and easy to get along with and collaborate with. Most importantly, he has the ability and drive to effect change at the big-picture level, making significant non-trivial improvements to the customer experience and quality of the product. During my tenure on the team, Josh was tasked with everything from systemwide architectural refactoring of a legacy codebase, to end-to-end development of major new customer-facing feature, down to the humblest of tasks such as upgrading libraries, helping to investigate bugs and writing up tests and documentation for FDA compliance. His work ethic and humility allows him to be effective and a top contributor in all the needs of a complex software/systems project -- whether large or small, fun or tedious. Having completed the architectural survey and refactoring, he gave in-depth presentations and one-on-one individual help to the rest of the team, and was a constant resource for architectural and system behaviour questions. When leading the effort to support a major new product feature, he acted as point-of-contact liaison and software team representative to several cross-functional teams, driving features to completion and maintaining communication on schedules and deliverables. He remains professional and supportive and courteous even when others are difficult to work with, and at the same time is uncompromising on quality and best practices & standards. It is telling that Josh continued to lead the way in process modernization and improvements to the software development environment in the last few years. While a lot of us would gripe and grumble about out-of-date or inefficient tools, then go back to using them for our day to day tasks, Josh takes initiative and rallies others to improve the status quo. Josh has been a significant pillar of the success of the software projects he has been able to work on, and would be an exceptional addition to any systems or software team, no matter the domain.