Software Product Management Intern

Sonos

Summer 2020     Remote Internship

• Built technical requirements for the seamless integration of a new audio technology in the multi-channel home.
• Developed and chose the best use case, through talking with user experience, audio engineers, partners and product managers.

Teaching Assistant/Course Liaison

Bowdoin College, Computer Science Department

January, 2020 - May, 2020     Remote Internship

• Worked with professor to support final in-class project focused on building new technologies for the visually impaired by using agile methodologies.
• Led the UX/UI, software, voice-interface teams and tracked progress to ensure deadlines were met.
• Helped facilitate communication between students and the Iris Network, an organization helping the visually impaired attain independence and community integration.

Product Management Intern

PTC Inc.

May, 2019 to January, 2020     Boston, Massachusetts

• Identified usability gaps of a key module of the IoT platform, ThingWorx.
• Proposed improvements in the structure, features, and documentation of module.
• Syndicated a new product roadmap across different engineering teams.
• Prioritized bug requests by extracting Jira information using REST APIs.

Junior Business Analyst

Gap Inc. Office of the CIO

Summer 2017 & Summer 2018     San Francisco, California

• Helped drive performance of Gap’s IT assets by designing a new cloud dashboard across application, infrastructure, and ops that normalize key data.
• Informed Gap's public cloud migration strategy by conducting a technical comparative analysis of Cloud solutions (MSFT, AWS, ORCL).
• Boosted productivity within the department by running workshops and creating video tutorials explaining how to use Power BI.

IT Technology Intern

Technology Department, Castilleja School

Summer 2016     Palo Alto, California

• Restored and re-imaged iPads, computers, and hardware for the next academic year.
• Increased efficiency by creating a new IT asset management system in Excel.

Intern

Cardiothoracic Department, Stanford University

Summer 2015     Stanford, California

• Tested new valve designs to solve Atrial Septal Defect through research and dissections of sheep hearts.

Grader

Computer Science Department, Bowdoin College

August, 2020 - Present     Brunswick, Maine

• Graded student work in 12 labs and supported Professor in Data Structures course.

Integral Calculus Grader/Teaching Assistant

Mathematics Department, Bowdoin College

January, 2019 - Present     Brunswick, Maine

• Graded problem sets and hosted office hours to help student improve their math understanding.

Teaching Assistant/ Course Liaison

Computer Science Department, Bowdoin College

January, 2020 - May, 2020     Brunswick, Maine

• Worked with professor to support final in-class project focused on building new technologies for the visually impaired by using agile methodologies.
• Led the UX/UI, software, voice-interface teams and tracked progress to ensure deadlines were met.
• Helped facilitate communication between students and the Iris Network, an organization helping the visually impaired attain independence and community integration.

Sports Information Assistant

Athletics Department, Bowdoin College

August, 2018 - Present     Brunswick, Maine

• Compiled and analyzed statistics for the Men's soccer team.

Treasurer

International Student Association, Bowdoin College

August, 2017 - Present     Brunswick, Maine

• Created budget proposals, allocated funds, and organized the multicultural week to unify the student body.
• Organized an exhibit centered around the experience of international students to increase visibility of these students on campus.

Math Teacher Assistant

Harriett Beecher Stowe Elementary School

August, 2016 - Present     Brunswick, Maine

• Co-taught a fifth-grade math class by providing weekly lectures and math games.

Forward

Castilleja Varsity & Stanford Soccer Club

2008 - 2016     Stanford, California

• Captain (2015-2016)
• Skyline Division Champions 2014-2015
• Honorable Mention 2014-2015

Natural-Language Scene Descriptions for Accessible Non-Visual Museum Exhibit Exploration and Engagement

Springer International Publishing, http://ceur-ws.org

Stacy A. Doore, Anais C. Sarrazin, Nicholas A. Giudice

In: Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 14th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2019). Regensburg, Germany.

Notable School Projects

at Bowdoin College

• Art Museum Exploration through Caption Generating (Independent Study) [May 2020] - A 3000-level independent study that built off of prior work done with Professor Doore that focused on learning new ways to create automated generated descriptions to replace the human generated ones that had been developed during the previous course, with the goal of enhancing the experience of visually impaired patrons in museums. Particularly, I focused on investigating the DenseCap model, a foundation for the hierarchical recurrent neural network created by Dr. Andrej Karpathy and Dr. Li Fei-Fei, and testing how effective this was in creating captions on particular artwork and comparing it to human-generated captions for visually impaired individuals that had been created by my previous class. This project introduced me to training datasets using machine learning with CPU and GPU and exposed me to learning the importance of various neural networks (e.g. CNN and RNN), while enabling me to build both technical skills and perseverance all while exploring novel solutions that could improve the quality of life for people with disabilities.
• ePub [May 2020] - A website interface that offers online food ordering to a popular late night spot on the Bowdoin College campus. We conducted a user study to collect qualitative and quantitative data which informed our design and possible features to incorporate in the future. After integrating parts of the Bootstrap to our website, I worked on developing aesthetic features of the menu items on the website, as well as the "Add to Cart" capability using Javascript and CSS. I also aided in conducting a statistical analysis (paired t-test) to confirm that we had satisfied the alternate hypothesis of our project.
• Markov Decision Process Project [May 2020] - A project that aimed to solve a more complicated version of the well-known Grid World problem, an environment in which an agent navigates the environment and chooses actions that maximize the final reward received. We used two common solution techniques to solve this MDP problem: Value Iteration and Policy Iteration. By using this Grid World problem, we explored the performance of these two algorithms and tested for the comparative performance, as well as the impact of changing factors, using these solutions. I worked on creating the transition and reward function, as well as implementing the policy iteration algorithm in Java(Github).
• Museum Navigation Mobile Application [May 2019] - A mobile application that assists visually impaired individuals in navigating museums museums independently. I designed the user interface (in Visual Studio) and query statements to connect to the external database, which held the gallery and artwork information.
• Predictive Keyboard [May 2019] - A predictive word generator that uses the same principles that the human brain uses to make predicitions, employing word association models, grammar rules, and sentence topic detection. It incorporates context analysis and word association as well as basic language principles to produce word predictions that are more accurate and helpful than those produced by simple statistical mechanisms. I built this using Java. (Github).
• Let's Talk About Sex Baby [December 2018] - The Ethics and Impact of Sex Robots - An ethics paper that explores sex robots, its current industry, and the moral drawbacks that come with the creation and implementation of these robots in society.

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