Career

Experience

A track record of bridging business needs and technical delivery.

Programmer Analyst I

April 2023 – Present

University of Southern California — Research Technology Services · Remote

  • Partner with committee administrators and compliance directors across IRB, IACUC, COI, RSC, and IBC to gather and translate business requirements into technical solutions; conduct one-on-one discovery sessions and participate in stakeholder validation meetings, presenting and demoing work prior to each deployment.
  • Configure and script Click Portal (Huron), a highly customizable commercial research compliance platform, using both low-code interfaces and custom JavaScript to build and maintain forms, submission and review/approval workflows, renewal and amendment processes, suspension handling, user roles, notifications, and reporting.
  • Designed and developed an internal dev cycle tracking application within the iStar platform to formalize the team's Agile adoption, creating sprint structures, priority assignments, story point tracking, and a kanban-style board with four workflow stages; initiative reduced support ticket resolution time by 40%.
  • Serve as sole helpdesk analyst, providing direct support to researchers and oversight officials across the university while maintaining development output on par with the team's top contributors; author end-user documentation and training materials across multiple system areas.
  • Follow change control processes including requirements documentation, stakeholder sign-off, and thorough testing prior to each deployment cycle.
Click Portal (Huron)JavaScriptRequirements ElicitationAgile/SCRUMChange ControlStakeholder ManagementTechnical Documentation

Software Engineer

October 2022 – April 2023

Roadies Labs · Remote

  • Customized and maintained a MERN stack web platform hosted on AWS, implementing front-end and back-end features including REST API updates and UI changes.
ReactNode.jsExpressMongoDBAWSREST APIs

Research Technician

August 2020 – December 2021

Zymo Research · Irvine, CA

  • Processed 25,000+ COVID-19 samples via RNA isolation and RT-qPCR; subsequently transitioned to R&D, supporting development and validation of commercial PCR and RT-qPCR diagnostic kit products.
RNA IsolationRT-qPCRR&DPCR DiagnosticsValidation

Education

Academic Background

B.S. Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

2020

Software Engineering Immersive

General Assembly

2022

Computer Science Coursework

El Camino College

Intro to Computer Science (C++), Data Structures & Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics, Linux Operating Systems (in progress)

2025 – Present