Samuel Howes
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Trent M.
As an Intellectual Property Attorney, I have had the opportunity to interact with many engineers, often times to discuss highly technical aspects of projects and/or inventions they had been working on at the time. I have found that not all engineers possess the ability to effectively translate their highly technical ideas into language that a lay person can understand. Sam Howes has that ability. I had the opportunity to work with Sam on several projects while I worked as an Attorney in the Boston area and while we both studied at Boston University. While working with Sam, his ability to explain advance programming techniques impressed me. This was not all, Sam was always punctual, always went the extra mile, took pride in his work, and picked up the workload of other less reliable teammates when needed - even if it meant staying on campus late into the night. While debugging his programs, rather than finding a fix and simply moving on, Sam learned about the problem and learned how to avoid it next time around. Sam is a quality person, has a great work ethic, and is very easy to work with. I would recommend him to anyone.
Trent M.
As an Intellectual Property Attorney, I have had the opportunity to interact with many engineers, often times to discuss highly technical aspects of projects and/or inventions they had been working on at the time. I have found that not all engineers possess the ability to effectively translate their highly technical ideas into language that a lay person can understand. Sam Howes has that ability. I had the opportunity to work with Sam on several projects while I worked as an Attorney in the Boston area and while we both studied at Boston University. While working with Sam, his ability to explain advance programming techniques impressed me. This was not all, Sam was always punctual, always went the extra mile, took pride in his work, and picked up the workload of other less reliable teammates when needed - even if it meant staying on campus late into the night. While debugging his programs, rather than finding a fix and simply moving on, Sam learned about the problem and learned how to avoid it next time around. Sam is a quality person, has a great work ethic, and is very easy to work with. I would recommend him to anyone.
Trent M.
As an Intellectual Property Attorney, I have had the opportunity to interact with many engineers, often times to discuss highly technical aspects of projects and/or inventions they had been working on at the time. I have found that not all engineers possess the ability to effectively translate their highly technical ideas into language that a lay person can understand. Sam Howes has that ability. I had the opportunity to work with Sam on several projects while I worked as an Attorney in the Boston area and while we both studied at Boston University. While working with Sam, his ability to explain advance programming techniques impressed me. This was not all, Sam was always punctual, always went the extra mile, took pride in his work, and picked up the workload of other less reliable teammates when needed - even if it meant staying on campus late into the night. While debugging his programs, rather than finding a fix and simply moving on, Sam learned about the problem and learned how to avoid it next time around. Sam is a quality person, has a great work ethic, and is very easy to work with. I would recommend him to anyone.
Trent M.
As an Intellectual Property Attorney, I have had the opportunity to interact with many engineers, often times to discuss highly technical aspects of projects and/or inventions they had been working on at the time. I have found that not all engineers possess the ability to effectively translate their highly technical ideas into language that a lay person can understand. Sam Howes has that ability. I had the opportunity to work with Sam on several projects while I worked as an Attorney in the Boston area and while we both studied at Boston University. While working with Sam, his ability to explain advance programming techniques impressed me. This was not all, Sam was always punctual, always went the extra mile, took pride in his work, and picked up the workload of other less reliable teammates when needed - even if it meant staying on campus late into the night. While debugging his programs, rather than finding a fix and simply moving on, Sam learned about the problem and learned how to avoid it next time around. Sam is a quality person, has a great work ethic, and is very easy to work with. I would recommend him to anyone.
Experience
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Reconnect, Inc.
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United States
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Public Safety
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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May 2023 - Present
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Personal Work
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Fine Art
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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May 2015 - May 2023
System and Method for Generating Context Graphs https://understanding.samhowes.com Patent Pending 11/3/2022 Potential Applications: • Psychotherapy Assistance • Event comprehension: Event log, historical event, etc • Anomaly detection Guest Lecturer, Boston University Fall 2022 Two Lecture Series on Intro to Software Engineering, EC327 Lecture Content: https://opinion.samhowes.com Rules MSBuild For Bazel Build https://github.com/samhowes/rules_msbuild • Implemented a set of rules in Starlark for Bazel to build MSBuild project les on Mac, Linux, and Windows using a custom MSBuild driver written in C# • Implemented parsing of MSBuild project les in Go to generate Bazel BUILD les using Gazelle Boston University College of Engineering ECE Senior Design Alumni Judge • Provide feedback on student's Senior Capstone project in BU "Shark Tank" • Evaluate and choose award-winning Senior Capstone projects on BU ECE Day Show less
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Senior Software Engineer
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Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Introduced Agile Software Development Practices & Team Building: Backlog Grooming, Daily Standups, Bi-weekly Retrospectives • Implemented Pull Request validation & build/deployment automation processes using Bazel and custom utilities • Consolidated repositories into a monorepo for efficient DevOps and Code Reviews • Refactored legacy Java code into Kotlin for readability and reliability • Created a replacement UI in Angular Introduced Agile Software Development Practices & Team Building: Backlog Grooming, Daily Standups, Bi-weekly Retrospectives • Implemented Pull Request validation & build/deployment automation processes using Bazel and custom utilities • Consolidated repositories into a monorepo for efficient DevOps and Code Reviews • Refactored legacy Java code into Kotlin for readability and reliability • Created a replacement UI in Angular
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Community Health Options
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Insurance
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
• Developed and maintained internal and public facing web applications and automation jobs using primarily C#, TypeScript, Angular, and MSSQL • Converted manual deployment practices for deploying applications and SQL objects into source controlled CI/CD deployments using custom deployment tools written in C# • Led design and implementation efforts of end to end testing using static test data on build and release for web applications in Protractor, and SQL Packages with a custom test runner • Led the grooming of work items for other team members and worked with technical and non-technical business users to identify and prioritize technical debt along with business features • Implemented a query language in TypeScript to query work items and compute velocity and predict project completion dates using custom charts implemented using AMCharts and D3.js Show less
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Google
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer Tools and Infrastructure
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Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
* Testing Tools for Google Drive * Testing Tools GSuite * Created and hosted a Machine Learning Intern Project * Testing Tools for Google Drive * Testing Tools GSuite * Created and hosted a Machine Learning Intern Project
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Mingle Analytics
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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Software Developer
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Jun 2014 - Feb 2017
• Full stack development of a single page web application with AngularJS, Asp.Net, and SQL • Engineer an automated build, testing, and deployment pipeline using TeamCity and Octopus Deploy • Perform technical interviews of new candidates for employment • Recruit new candidates from Boston University Career fairs • Full stack development of a single page web application with AngularJS, Asp.Net, and SQL • Engineer an automated build, testing, and deployment pipeline using TeamCity and Octopus Deploy • Perform technical interviews of new candidates for employment • Recruit new candidates from Boston University Career fairs
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Boston University College of Engineering
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United States
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Higher Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Research Assistant
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Mar 2012 - Jan 2014
• Developed software tools alongside PHD candidates to assist on research projects for publication • Contributing author for a research publication submitted to the academic conference DAC 2014 • Developed in Python to utilize JSON as a means for data storage and serialization for a scientific simulation • Used C++ and GNUPlot to create a standalone scientific visualization of a 3D surface derived from scattered data • Developed software tools alongside PHD candidates to assist on research projects for publication • Contributing author for a research publication submitted to the academic conference DAC 2014 • Developed in Python to utilize JSON as a means for data storage and serialization for a scientific simulation • Used C++ and GNUPlot to create a standalone scientific visualization of a 3D surface derived from scattered data
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GE
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Brazil
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Engineering Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Security Engineer Intern
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May 2013 - Aug 2013
• Developed a testing suite to reproduce known vulnerabilities in a web service and provide a unit test for assessing product security • Validated vulnerability reports and coordinated with product teams for patching issues • Developed an automated tool for validating product code signatures to improve end-user security • Influenced product teams’ practices to improve the process of logging security bugs and enhance concurrency and communication between product teams and the security team Show less
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Education
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2010 - 2014
Boston University College of Engineering
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
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