Chicago, Illinois, United States
Early-career product/project manager with a technical background in software engineering and hands-on experience managing creative projects from concept to execution. Experienced in coordinating timelines, stakeholders, and logistics, supporting marketing and branding initiatives, and translating ideas into structured plans. Passionate about building organized, user-focused solutions at the intersection of technology and music. Feel free to leave a message or send me an email at [email protected]!
- Conducting patentability searches on proposed computer science related patents to evaluate inventiveness and novelty. - Searching 500+ instances of prior art per case within multiple databases to find the most relevant existing references. - Writing patentability search reports that list, quote, and analyze prior art references against the proposed invention.
www.bridgepercussion.com - Managing a Chicago-based contemporary percussion ensemble’s projects and performances from inception to completion including coordinating project timelines, rehearsal schedules, personnel management, and event-day logistics. - Orchestrating project-based marketing/branding strategies on social media and the website. - Shaping the ensemble’s artistic identity through program ideation, repertoire selection, and proposals for collaboration.
- Performing as a freelance orchestral percussionist with various orchestras in the Chicagoland area, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra, and Grant Park Festival Orchestra. - Performing as a tenured Section Percussionist with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. - Performing as a Regular Member of Percussion with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago for the '23-'24, '24-'25, and '25-'26 seasons. - Performing as a crew member with the Rhythm Messengers, a professional entertainment drumline in Chicago, playing shows at music festivals (Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, North Coast), pro-sports games (Chicago Bulls, Chicago Fire), and corporate events.
- Software Development Engineer Intern on AWS LakeFormation - Created CRUD APIs for cell filters from end-to-end, including developing the backend and frontend for the APIs - Pioneered optimistic locking for LakeFormation, preventing concurrency issues within the product - Wrote thorough unit and integration tests for the APIs in Java for a variety of customer use cases - More information about the team and work can be found here: https://aws.amazon.com/lake-formation
- Software Development Engineer I Intern on Project Kuiper’s Medium Access Control Software team (MAC-SW). - Set up continuous integration for the entire team from scratch using Amazon Web Services (CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, S3). - Utilized CodeBuild to set up mainline commit and nightly triggers for builds and unit, integration, and regression tests (YAML, TypeScript) - Wrote automated nightly test running and result consolidation/visualization scripts to keep the team updated with the latest complete test results from builds (Bash, Python, C-Shell, Cron).