Experience

Parse Biosciences

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Associate II

  • Aug 2021 - Present



Freelance

• Freelance Bioinformatician

  • Mar 2021 - May 2022

  • Wrote code to extract continuous areas of high sequence coverage in RAD-seq data for use on computing cluster • Translated code from Perl to R and improve readability for future laboratory use • Wrote code to extract continuous areas of high sequence coverage in RAD-seq data for use on computing cluster • Translated code from Perl to R and improve readability for future laboratory use



University of Massachusetts Amherst

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Bioinformatics Research Assistant

  • Sep 2019 - Dec 2020

  • Self-proposed project for Commonwealth Honors Thesis involving the characterization and comparison of marine turtle immunomes and blood microbiomes through analysis of Gene Ontology terms • Analyzed quality of sequences with FastQC, removed overrepresented sequences, and assessed completeness • Assembled transcriptomes of sea turtles to study gene expression levels associated with Fibropapillomatosis (herpesvirus) using RNA-seq between the same and other marine turtle species

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2020 - May 2020

  • Led group discussions, graded assignments, and provided weekly office hours for BIO-283: General Genetics



Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Undergraduate Course Assistant

  • Sep 2017 - Dec 2020

  • Grading 80 labs and quizzes weekly for CS105: Computer Literacy • Filing paperwork and inputting grades into database • Grading 80 labs and quizzes weekly for CS105: Computer Literacy • Filing paperwork and inputting grades into database



Rockwell Collins

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer Intern

  • Mar 2019 - Aug 2019

  • Lead intern team on development of an automated test tool • Tests ran in minutes with traceability in logs, reducing time to routinely rollout updates to customer • Found errors in test procedures and their Interface Control Document • Lead intern team on development of an automated test tool • Tests ran in minutes with traceability in logs, reducing time to routinely rollout updates to customer • Found errors in test procedures and their Interface Control Document



Markstein Lab

• Computational Biology Team Member

  • Jan 2019 - May 2019

  • Refactored Shift-And algorithm that finds common genome sequence motifs faster than BLAST • Planned user interface of the merMer site around ease of use, speed, and reproducibility of sequence search • Refactored Shift-And algorithm that finds common genome sequence motifs faster than BLAST • Planned user interface of the merMer site around ease of use, speed, and reproducibility of sequence search



University of Massachusetts Amherst

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• ExSEL Leader and Tutor

  • Sep 2018 - May 2019

  • Taught students through group discussion on topics covered in CS-186: Using Data Structures • Taught students through group discussion on topics covered in CS-186: Using Data Structures



DCS Corp

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer Intern

  • May 2018 - Aug 2018

  • Writing maintainable and robust code in a team environment • Designing applications integrated with GitHub and TFS • Writing maintainable and robust code in a team environment • Designing applications integrated with GitHub and TFS



Inactive Page

• United States
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Shift Manager

  • Jul 2015 - Mar 2018

  • Oversaw store, delegated tasks based on priority, coordinated breaks, and trained new employees • Oversaw store, delegated tasks based on priority, coordinated breaks, and trained new employees